. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . 36—INDIVIDUAL RECORD NESTS IN POSITION the same number of birds. Their feeding and treatment was, alike throughout. Whenever changes were made in the feed in one pen they were made in the others. That they were in good health is shown by the fact that but two were ailing, and were taken out early; two were crop-bound, and one was in- jured by rough treatment by a cockerel. Many of the lighte
. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . 36—INDIVIDUAL RECORD NESTS IN POSITION the same number of birds. Their feeding and treatment was, alike throughout. Whenever changes were made in the feed in one pen they were made in the others. That they were in good health is shown by the fact that but two were ailing, and were taken out early; two were crop-bound, and one was in- jured by rough treatment by a cockerel. Many of the lightest layers gave evidence of much vitality and in many instances there were no marked indications in form or type by which we were able to account for the small amount of work performed by them. Numbers 234, 70 and 236 yielded respectively 36, 37 and 38 eggs in the year. They were of the egg type and gave no evidence of weak- ness or masculinity. Num- bers 101, 286, 36, 47 and 14 with their yields 204, 206, 201, 200 and 208 eggs during the year were typical birds with every indication of capacity, but they were equalled in the minds of good judges by other birds that yielded a much less number of eggs. The size and uniformity of the eggs yielded are of a good deal of importance. It was very noticeable in these investi- gations that the eggs from hens that laid the greatest number averaged smaller in size than from those that did not produce so many. That this was not always the case was shown by the eggs from numbers 101 and 286, which were of good size and dark brown, while those from number 36 were small and lacking in color. When the eggs from the hens that had been laying long and freely were placed in the incubator, many of them were found low in fer- tility, or entirely sterile, not- withstanding the hens had mated freely with vigorous cockerels. The percentage of infertility was much greater than in eggs from hens that had been laying moder- ately. The question arises wh
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