. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. mwhich any chicken is bred, but theRecording /^ which is the mother. PeopleNest-Boxes, constantly about, with only a fewfowls, soon get to know the egg ofeach bird ; but with careful breeders for severalyears past there has been increasing use ofwhat are termed recording, registering, ortrap nest-boxes. These are so arranged thatthe hen can enter, but her entering closes thedoor behind her, and there she remains till sheis liberated, when her number or name is A. Silberstein was proba
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. mwhich any chicken is bred, but theRecording /^ which is the mother. PeopleNest-Boxes, constantly about, with only a fewfowls, soon get to know the egg ofeach bird ; but with careful breeders for severalyears past there has been increasing use ofwhat are termed recording, registering, ortrap nest-boxes. These are so arranged thatthe hen can enter, but her entering closes thedoor behind her, and there she remains till sheis liberated, when her number or name is A. Silberstein was probably the first todesign such a nest-box, and sold his pattern RECORDING OR PEDIGREE NEST-BOXES. 189 by scores; since then many have been broughtout by others. We ilhistratc one published inthe Feather by the late Mr. C. II. Payne, ,which will sufficiently explain the essentialaction of all such contrivances. Fig. 74 is asection and plan, and Fig. 75 shows the en-trance both open and shut. The hen steps upa trip-board pivoted about two inches out ofcentre, the upper or farther end of which has. spot, better than average English practice. Theyare most largely used of all, however, to pedi-gree the best layers, and the time consumed inlooking after them is reckoned time well Mr. Boyer writes in Farm Poultry, Is itas costly to spend five or ten minutes everyhour looking after a lot of traps, as it is to feedand care for a lot of hens that are not payingboard? xAlso the handling of every hen byherself, so frequently, is found a good thingevery way. At all events, it is in this waythat the pedigree laying strains of America arebeing built up. There is however a less exact-ing system sometimes pursued, the further endof the nest having similar doors without anycatch, which the hen can open for herself, and PLAN Fig. 74.—Plan and Section of Trap-Nest. two catches which hold open or apart two half-doors through which she enters. These doorsare hung by hinges (which must wo
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