. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS. A SOUTH CAROLINA PLANT. What this breeder has accomplished here he tells in the letter printed on this page. GOING TO MAKE IT A REGULAR BUSINESS. NESTING MATERIAL IN THE MANURE. A little over a year ago I bought 12 pairs of Extra Plymouth Rock Homers from. you. Now I have over 100 birds in my houses and have started to sell some squabs. I am more than pleased with my birds, they are doing fine. After a while I expect I will have to get a few more from ypu so as to mix in some new blood. My birds have averaged nine pairs of s
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. MORE STORIES OF SUCCESS. A SOUTH CAROLINA PLANT. What this breeder has accomplished here he tells in the letter printed on this page. GOING TO MAKE IT A REGULAR BUSINESS. NESTING MATERIAL IN THE MANURE. A little over a year ago I bought 12 pairs of Extra Plymouth Rock Homers from. you. Now I have over 100 birds in my houses and have started to sell some squabs. I am more than pleased with my birds, they are doing fine. After a while I expect I will have to get a few more from ypu so as to mix in some new blood. My birds have averaged nine pairs of squabs to the pair for the year. I find the squabs at the killing age weighing from 13 to 15 ounces .per bird, and for what birds I have sold, which has been only a few, I have received $3 per dozen. I have been holding most of my birds for stock, as it was my intention at the beginning to raise a stock before entering the market. I am feeding a scratch feed with a little hempseed about once a week. My birds have been perfectly healthy. Out of the original 12 pairs I have lost only four birds. It costs at an average of five cents a month per bird and I have in my houses 130 birds; which I consider a very good increase. I am more than pleased with the birds, and intend to go into it on a business basis^ making it a regular business, and I do not see why it should not be a success. My houses are of the plainest kind, costing about $125. They will accommodate 300 birds I have one pair of birds that I have raised, which lav four eggs to the setting. This is the first incident of its kind that I have ever heard of. They will set on these four eggs for about 10 days, and then throw the eggs out, one bv one, in consequence of which I lose the setting. These birds have done this thing on three occasions. Two of the eg^s would be fertile and two infertile. I at first thought that perhaps some other pair had laid m the nest with these, but after watchiner carefully I found that the eggs c
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