. 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 .. . J7—SINGLE NEST REMOVED Others that laid only from 23 co 70 eggs each. Thirty-seven laid over 160 each. No hens were used as breeders that had not laid over 160 eggs, and all, as in the previous years, were bred to males whose dams had yielded over 200 eggs. Males were raised in 1902 for the male breeding pens of the next year from hens No. 630, with a record of 213 eggs, and No. 676, witu a
. 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 .. . J7—SINGLE NEST REMOVED Others that laid only from 23 co 70 eggs each. Thirty-seven laid over 160 each. No hens were used as breeders that had not laid over 160 eggs, and all, as in the previous years, were bred to males whose dams had yielded over 200 eggs. Males were raised in 1902 for the male breeding pens of the next year from hens No. 630, with a record of 213 eggs, and No. 676, witu a record of 209 eggs. The eggs from both of these hens were very large and dark brown. They were mated to sons of No. 318 before spoken of. Males for the pullet breeding pens of the next year were bred from other matings of hens that had produced 200 eggs, with males whose mothers had yielded over 200 eggs. RESULTS OF THE YEAR 1902 That year (1902) we were crowded for room and could ac- commodate only 53 pullets for testing. They were the first pullets that we tested that were sired by males bred from 200 egg-producing hens and show the first results of the breeding practised. They had been laying quite heavilj' out in their summer quarters during September and October, although they were not hatched until April and May. The 53 birds laid 7952 eggs in the year forward from November 1,1902, a little better than 150 eggs each. Could they have been in quarters where their eggs could have been traced to them a month earlier, when they were laying so well, they would have shown a better year's work, as the twelfth month of their testing was really the thirteenth month of their lay- ing, and the record sheets show it to be nearly bare of eggs. As it was, however, seven of the 53 show records of from 201 to 240 eggs each in the year, and 23 of the 53 laid over 160 eggs each. THE 1903 SEASON During the breeding season of 1903 hens No. 1001, record 213 eggs. No. 1003, record 240 eggs, N
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