STOCKING THE FARM

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 15

STOCKING THE FARM

-*- . X Any person starting a poultry farm without several years' experienced pr else sufficient capital is asking "/Or trouble. Experience vrilj prevent cost ly mistakes, while sufficient capital will permit of the owner pmpjo}itt£ a capable manager until such time 89 he lean carry on himself. Good poultry in^nagers are not easy to procure, iirtce once experienced, they usually > prefer t^itart their own farms. A really good poultrj man is worthy of hjs hire, MdI'*making shift" -with cheap labour wyl>o*n'spell disaster Sitfce profits are suirtH it is the smaller owner managed farms "-ninth show y the7 highlit piofitji, ' ! r < * Undoubtedly the easiest w»y to stock the farm is. by pnrchasiug "day^old chicks. If two batches are.procured, one lot say, in August, and t»» »eeond lot m Jute September, the sum* brooders can be 'used both batchy but many rucommend buying extr» brood era and having all the chickt ihe one age. Certainly" th»s »imphne» management and give* a more umf orjp flock, whilst the additional brooders Tequired can, usually bo, sQld* without much loss Two 1 thousand day old thicks fhould giVP »the owner a flock of 700 j|cle«tted pullets. If.these are bred frdm second or third year hens and havo been well reared the best could be used foi breeders next season ,md replacements produced on the farm, One breed onlj ghouldbe kept, nnfl the choice shp^ia be between White Leghorns and Blapk Orpingtons, Bince thesp two breeds havo proved themselves superior as egg producers and sufficient stock. \% aljravs available for, the necessary change of blood.' -*. - , There is a mistaken idea that a ponltry farm roust bo started in the spring, but no matter what time of the year tfie land is purchased the spare time available can be put to good use in buijding *a.nd preparation for tha' comifig season. ' So many iappljances *re Required that the off-season is always tully employed. For choice, operations' should commence in tho late summer/ leaving ample time for having •verything in order for the busy spring months..