. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. FEEDING AND CARE OF POULTRY 387 coagulates or hardens. The yolk, forming about one-third of the egg, is enclosed in a delicate membrane which keeps it spherical in shape. The yolk contains about 49 per ct. water, 18 per ct. protein, 32 per ct. fat, and per ct. ash. The germ in the fresh-laid egg is a white speck about one-eighth of an inch in diameter on one side of the yolk. The eggs of the
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. FEEDING AND CARE OF POULTRY 387 coagulates or hardens. The yolk, forming about one-third of the egg, is enclosed in a delicate membrane which keeps it spherical in shape. The yolk contains about 49 per ct. water, 18 per ct. protein, 32 per ct. fat, and per ct. ash. The germ in the fresh-laid egg is a white speck about one-eighth of an inch in diameter on one side of the yolk. The eggs of the different breeds of chickens vary somewhat in size, the average hen's egg being inches long and inches in di- ameter, and weighing about 2 ounces. This brings the weight of a dozen eggs to lbs. Eggs from pullets are generally smaller than those laid by mature hens. Selecting the —Under any method of feeding and care, suc- cess with poultry is possible only when good stock is kept. Since pure- bred fowls or eggs from such fowls for hatching can be obtained at rea- sonable prices, the wise poultryman will start with good stock and, if possible, keep improving it. To obtain the best chicks, eggs should be saved from strong, vigorous, reasonably mature stock. Only the best of each year's crop of pullets, those which mature early and are per- sistent layers, should be selected for breeding purposes. Such stock should be mated with vigorous males from a high-producing strain. It will pay everyone who raises poultry to spend a lit- tle time during the fall and winter in marking the laying hens and pullets, leg bands being commonly used for this purpose. Good layers are first off the roost in the morn- ing and the last to go to roost at night, are always busy looking for feed, and have full crops at night. They are bright-eyed, go about singing, and have full-sized red combs that are pliable and inclined to be slippery. Late moulting hens are really the. Pig. 11
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