The call of the hen; or, The science of selecting and breeding poultry for egg-production . ^-inch pelvic bone; indicating a still more beefy hen than the preceding—that is, a still larger proportion of the food consumed is used to make ftesh and lessto produce eggs. If of one-finger abdomen, she would lay about 8 eggs; and if of three-finger abdomen, she would lay about 82 eggs; while if of six-finger abdomen, she wouldlay about 175 eggs in the first laying Fig. 29—^-inch pelvic bone. A pretty good specimen of the beef type. Wefind no two-finger abdomen hens that have pelvic bones so t
The call of the hen; or, The science of selecting and breeding poultry for egg-production . ^-inch pelvic bone; indicating a still more beefy hen than the preceding—that is, a still larger proportion of the food consumed is used to make ftesh and lessto produce eggs. If of one-finger abdomen, she would lay about 8 eggs; and if of three-finger abdomen, she would lay about 82 eggs; while if of six-finger abdomen, she wouldlay about 175 eggs in the first laying Fig. 29—^-inch pelvic bone. A pretty good specimen of the beef type. Wefind no two-finger abdomen hens that have pelvic bones so thick, because they cannotconsurne enough food with such pelvic bones. A two-finger abdomen hen is virtuallya non-layer; a three-finger abdomen hen will lay about 24 eggs; and a six-finger abdomenhen will lay about 115 eggs in the first laying year. THE CALL OF THE HEN. 43
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