. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . land turkejS, and I bought some more, still keeping thelittle, plump hens. The next season the joung poultswere larger than their mothers—the result of using alarge torn. The results have been about the samewhether I used a large young torn or an older bird, providedthe young males were big boned, blocky fellows mated•to good blocky hens or pullets. Still, I preier a torn fromtwo to five years old. I ■wish to state here that when
. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . land turkejS, and I bought some more, still keeping thelittle, plump hens. The next season the joung poultswere larger than their mothers—the result of using alarge torn. The results have been about the samewhether I used a large young torn or an older bird, providedthe young males were big boned, blocky fellows mated•to good blocky hens or pullets. Still, I preier a torn fromtwo to five years old. I ■wish to state here that when 1began breeding this variety of turkeys vhe toms at theirbest weighed only sixteen pounds and the pullets andhens eight to ten pounds, but during the past three orfour years, by following my own rules of mating asgiven here, my turkeys have doubled these weights, sothat now my young toms and pullets weigh from fifteento twenty-four pounds. I use both pullets and hens as breeders, though I amcareful to select the best shaped ones—those that areblocky and in first class health. The first eggs that arelaid are given to domestic hens (eight or ten to each. A flook of Whi The Property of Mr, hen) or are put in an incubator. We get successfulhatches either way, but we never have had success whenwe put the poults in a brooder. It may be the fault ofthis particular make of brooder, as I never have thoughtwell of it, though it is a high priced one. So we give thepoults to hens. Now, it 5s easy enough to hatch thepoults, the main trouble is to raise them. I am free toconfess I do not know it all, but some things I havelearned from experience. I know I have lost more poultsfrom lice, over feeding and chilling than from all othercauses combined. Lice are the poults worst enemies,and next they suffer from overfeeding. Our rule for feed-ing chicks is any sound, wholesome food, fed a little ata time. This rule applied to poults works equally well. We are most successful whenthe weathe
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