. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Constitutional Vigor in Poultry 603 TABLE 28. Average Dry Matter Consumed, Average Weight of Fowls, and Percentage of Egg Production, by Periods (November 24, 1908, to November 22, 1909) Period I 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 Date Beginning. November 24-Deceinber 21. December 22-January January 19-February 15. . February i6-March is March i6-Apr
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Constitutional Vigor in Poultry 603 TABLE 28. Average Dry Matter Consumed, Average Weight of Fowls, and Percentage of Egg Production, by Periods (November 24, 1908, to November 22, 1909) Period I 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 Date Beginning. November 24-Deceinber 21. December 22-January January 19-February 15. . February i6-March is March i6-April 12 April 13-May 10 May I i-June 7 June 8-July 5 July 6-August 2 August 3-August 30 August 31-September 27. . September 28-October October 26-November Total. Average. Average dry mat- ter consumed (pounds) Strong Weak 08 35 50 64 38 64 13 19 4-58 4-79 4-54 5-13 .89 . 12 .32 .61 • 32 ?74 • 23 .87 .67 • 74 • 34 .01 ? 30 63^16 Average weight of fowls (pounds) Strong Weak 3-53 06 35 63 62 09 29 24 09 13 20 13 90 17 58 98 26 27 04 3-92 3 67 3 76 3^88 3^6l 390 Percentage of ^ egg production Strong 310 372 44^8 62. 2 67 .0 55^6 45^2 348 5^1 Weak 25 18 28 34 36 44 49 6 46 5 A study of Table 28 and Fig. 165 shows that the heavy consump- tion of food in these pullet pens occurred during the periods of heaviest weight of the fowls and slightly pre- |||| ceded the highest pro- duction of eggs. These figures confirm the data given in Table 6 and Fig. 163, Part I, and in Table 17 and Fig. 164, Part II, of this bulletin. * weight of eggs In all comparison flocks the average weight of the eggs from the strong fowls was the greater. 11 i s noticeabl e in Table 29 that there were fluctuations from period to period, and. Fig. 165.— The average dry matter consumed, the average weight of fowls, and the percentage of egg production, by periods of twenty-eight days each •Simil
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