. The business hen (the latest hatch). Poultry. POULTRY IN LARGE FLOCKS. 159 platform high enough above the floor to get a pail under the pipe to empty it into, and build a running board on each side of it for tne hens to stand on when drinking, and you are fixed. In Winter the trough can be emptied at night, and filled through the day at intervals with hot water to keep ice melted. Put the pail under the pipe, remove cork and brush out trough with a sink brush and it is clean. The object to be attained by feeding these hens is to keep them healthy, make them eat egg-making food and drink clea
. The business hen (the latest hatch). Poultry. POULTRY IN LARGE FLOCKS. 159 platform high enough above the floor to get a pail under the pipe to empty it into, and build a running board on each side of it for tne hens to stand on when drinking, and you are fixed. In Winter the trough can be emptied at night, and filled through the day at intervals with hot water to keep ice melted. Put the pail under the pipe, remove cork and brush out trough with a sink brush and it is clean. The object to be attained by feeding these hens is to keep them healthy, make them eat egg-making food and drink clean water, so as to produce the most clean eggs with high-colored yolks, and no bad smell or flavor. If left to herself she would much rather spend her time scratching in a manure pile or old wood pile for a bug or two, eat turnips or onions, and not lay any more than she had to until Spring. While the man does not live who can make a hen lay, you can so feed her in the Fall that there is a super-supply of protein, fat and mineral matter that will, against her inclination,. THE BURR HEN TROUGH. Fig. 52. go to the development of the embryonic ovules, and as they grow they cause a drain on her system which she locates as hunger, and supplies, hence Winter eggs. This can only be done by confining her in large yards and not letting her out of the house in the morning until she has eaten her breakfast, giving food she is fond of to encourage her to eat more than she otherwise would, and keeping such a mixture before her as will develop the ovaries and the albumen secreting glands. If these pullets are all April and early May hatched, and are housed by October, go through your flock on December first and cull out any immature, undeveloped pullet, in fact every one that does not show a developed comb, and sell them for roasters. I say developed, and not red comb, for some of the April pullets that laid through October and November will be rest- ing now, and the combs will not be so red.
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