. 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 ... Poultry; Eggs Production. EXPERIMENTS-LAYERS AND EGGS EGGS PER. MONTH (NUMBER) Months. Animal Meal. December 63 January 92 February 184 March 263 April 210 Total 812 ANIMAL MEAL VS. CUT BONE FOR EGG PRODUCTION Cut Bone. 67 83 120 259 209 728 Animal Meal. Cut Bone. 812 738 2,5G1 2,331 $ $ Cost per egg $ $ $ Total weigbt of eggs (pounds) Average weig
. 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 ... Poultry; Eggs Production. EXPERIMENTS-LAYERS AND EGGS EGGS PER. MONTH (NUMBER) Months. Animal Meal. December 63 January 92 February 184 March 263 April 210 Total 812 ANIMAL MEAL VS. CUT BONE FOR EGG PRODUCTION Cut Bone. 67 83 120 259 209 728 Animal Meal. Cut Bone. 812 738 2,5G1 2,331 $ $ Cost per egg $ $ $ Total weigbt of eggs (pounds) Average weight per egg (ounces) .32 .31 Dry matter consumed per hen day (lbs) .22 .23 Dry matter to produce one egg (lbs) .695 .739 1 1 Sitters 22 13 It will be noticed that the fowls receiving animal meal laid many more eggs of greater average weight than those receiving the bone. The cost per egg for focJd was consider- ably less. The animal meal is, moreover, a more convenient feed to use as well as safer. The fowls at the close of the experiment weighed less, it is true, where animal meal had been the food, but the slight loss in weight is far more than covered by the greater value of the egg product. A test of the eggs, both raw and boiled, was made by an expert, who pronounced the animal eggs somewhat inferior in color and flavor to the others. The experiment carried out during the pre- vious winter gave results even more de- cisive in favor of the animal meal. As a result then of a most painstaking % and long continued inquiry upon this subject I am convinced that the dry fine animal or flesh meals, if sweet and good quality, are much to be preferred as a source of animal food to fresh cut bone. CONDITION POWDERS There seems to be a quite widespread opinion that something hot, something of the nature of a condiment, mixed with the mash given to laying fowls is useful. This idea receives encouragement also from some of the most prominent poultry papers and writers.
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