. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS. A PAIR OF SQUABS FEOM PLYMOUTH ROCK EXTRAS. These squabs weigh a pound apiece as you see them on the platter. IN TWO AND ONE-HALF YEARS THIS ILLINOIS CUSTOMER BRED A FLOCK OF 650 FROM 12 PAIRS EXTRA PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS, ALSO SELLING SQUABS. On March 13, 1906, I ordered 12 pairs of your Extra Plymouth Rock Homers. I kept a record o£ them all the first year and found the best pair hatched the tenth pair of squabs on April 11, 1907, the average being nearly seven pairs of squabs to each pair of breeders. I consider this pretty
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS. A PAIR OF SQUABS FEOM PLYMOUTH ROCK EXTRAS. These squabs weigh a pound apiece as you see them on the platter. IN TWO AND ONE-HALF YEARS THIS ILLINOIS CUSTOMER BRED A FLOCK OF 650 FROM 12 PAIRS EXTRA PLYMOUTH ROCK HOMERS, ALSO SELLING SQUABS. On March 13, 1906, I ordered 12 pairs of your Extra Plymouth Rock Homers. I kept a record o£ them all the first year and found the best pair hatched the tenth pair of squabs on April 11, 1907, the average being nearly seven pairs of squabs to each pair of breeders. I consider this pretty good for the first year. In the winter and spring of 1907/1 built a new loft SO feet long, 12 feet wide, divided into five pens with orange crates which I used for nests. Each pen has a wire run 10 x 20 feet, facing the south. The whole building^is covered with roofing. I now (October, 1908) have 650 birds altogether. About 400 of them arp mated and I presume the rest of them will be mated by next spring. The first ten squabs raised from your birds I sold for $1 each when about six weeks old to a party here who was very anxious to buy them. Since then I have been keeping all the choicest squabs for breeders and the smallest squabs I have been shipping to market with the squabs of the common pigeons which we have breeding squabs around the bams. The last two months I have been shipping all of the squabs to the Chicago market, as I now have birds enough for my building capacity. My intention is to sell squabs for a while, then I mav put up more buildings and start on a larger scale if evervthing looks satisfactory. I am at present getting from $2 to $ per dozen for the squabs from the commission men in Chicago-. In some of the large hotels they are paying forty cents each for squabs wei,ghing 9 to 10 pounds to the dozen. I have not started to sell to the hotels yet. My best squabs weigh about 10 pounds to the dozen. / Corn and wheat are the staple articles of feed, and twic
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