. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 410 POULTRY. Pedigreeing Improved Poultry. It is not so easy a matter to keep exact pedigrees of poultry as it is of the larger and less prolific farm animals; yet in the case of improved poultry some record of their breeding is necessary. Uniformity or improvement in any particular can be at- tained only by successive, judicious matings. Without a record or remembrance of the individual animals used as breeders from vear to year, there is no certainty of any ad- vancement nor even of tbe best bred stock continuing tore- produce animals as good as the parent st
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 410 POULTRY. Pedigreeing Improved Poultry. It is not so easy a matter to keep exact pedigrees of poultry as it is of the larger and less prolific farm animals; yet in the case of improved poultry some record of their breeding is necessary. Uniformity or improvement in any particular can be at- tained only by successive, judicious matings. Without a record or remembrance of the individual animals used as breeders from vear to year, there is no certainty of any ad- vancement nor even of tbe best bred stock continuing tore- produce animals as good as the parent stock. _ In the breeding of improved poultry, however, it is not always indispensable that the indivual sire and dam of any given animal be known in order to determine with what other of the same breed it should be mated. Tbe blood or breeding may be sufficiently known and recorded without this exact knowledge, as may be seen from what follows. It is not a difficult matter to have half a dozen or more hens or pullets of exactly the same breeding, that is, the pro- duce of one particular hen known to have been mated with a particular cock. These may be had occasionally, or as often as needed, to keep up particular lines of breeding; but ho â who undertakes to save the eggs from each of these separately, and to hatch and rear the chicks so as to know the exact dam of each chick, will rind himself with no small task on his hands. The time necessarily spent in keeping such exact pedigrees of all the increase, even to the second generation, would, in the case of poultry, make the chicks cost more than they were worth. Instead of this the eggs from such a group of hens or pul- lets may as well, for all practical purposes, be kept together, and the chicks reared from them counted as if the produce of one hen. So, also, two or more cockerels that are full brothers to each others may be kept with a sufficient number of hens or pullets, and the chicks reckoned as if all sired by one bird.
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