The mating and breeding of poultry . reeders cull out thosebirds which they no longer wish to carry as breeders afterthey have stopped laying in the summer or fall. Trimming heavy feathered fowls.—Where fowls areextremely heavily feathered, like the Cochins and someWyandottes, the profusion of feathers about the vent andtail frequently interferes with successful copulation, with the result thatthe fertility ofthe eggs is remedy thiscondition, cut ortrim the feath-ers away aboutthe vent andalso a little offthe main tailfeathers of bothsexes just beforethe breedingseason. Oftenthis- will
The mating and breeding of poultry . reeders cull out thosebirds which they no longer wish to carry as breeders afterthey have stopped laying in the summer or fall. Trimming heavy feathered fowls.—Where fowls areextremely heavily feathered, like the Cochins and someWyandottes, the profusion of feathers about the vent andtail frequently interferes with successful copulation, with the result thatthe fertility ofthe eggs is remedy thiscondition, cut ortrim the feath-ers away aboutthe vent andalso a little offthe main tailfeathers of bothsexes just beforethe breedingseason. Oftenthis- will ? resultin much betterfertility. Combinationof utility andq u a li t y.— Agreat amount of discussion has arisen over the question ofutility vs. standard bred poultry. There seems to exist afairly wide opinion that if a breeder is working for utility hecannot have birds of good quality, while if he is working forquality his birds must of necessity be poor utility is no good foundation for such an opinion. Many hens. Fig. 22. Single Comb White Leghorn cockerel out ofhen 408, who is shown with her record in Fig. sire of the .cockerel was also out qf .a hen. whichlaid 202 eggs in her pullet year. (Photograph fromthe Bureau of Animal Industry, United States De-partment of Agriculture.) PRACTICES OF 53 of excellent quality have been decidedly superior egg pro-ducers, while the standard shape requirements for the differ-ent breeds insure good table type. Admittedly it is harder tosecure fowls showing a combination of excellent quality andexcellent producing ability than to secure either one alone,just as it is always harder to select successfully for two char-acters than for one, but that such a combination does fre-quently exist and can be obtained there can be no is being done by breeders and the authors themselves havesucceeded in securing this result in their breeding work atthe Government Poultry Farm, Beltsville, Maryland. It isequally
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