THE POULTRY WORLD

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 4 November 1933, Page 7

THE POULTRY WORLD

CANADA CLAIMS A RECORD “EXPERTS” WHO ARE BEHIND THE TIMES. (By “Tight Feather.”) I ‘ - i Periodically fictitious claims are made for egg-layiug records and cabled all over the world as news.. The latest sample of this “takes the cake.” A cable from Vancouver states that “50 national experts cheered as though at a football game a White Leghorn hen Doreen, owned by M. B. Rutledge, which to-dav laid her 357th egg in 365 davs to equal the world’6 record'. The i lien weighs 41b and her year’s eggs weigh lb. ” This is not the world’s record. That wes established at Nonnanby laying competition some years ago by a Black Orpington bred in Taranaki with 361 eggs laid in 52 weeks. This may equal the record of the White Leghorn hen which was stated to have laid’ a similar number of eggs and was then claimed as the world’s record, ignoring altogether New Zealand’s claim. As a matter of fact this country has

I three records which are ahead of the i Vancouver hen, two by Black Orpingtons at Auckland and the one at Normanby, a s well as Willoughby Knight’s Indian Runner duck which, at the New Zealand laying competition at Christchurch, laid 350 eggs in the 352 days, a total which staggered many pooltrvmen. However, even this record has been eclipsed bv an English Khaki Camnbell duck, which at present holds the world’s record for waterfowl and the Taranaki Black Orpington that for hens. When a Canadian hen’s first performance was cabled to New Zealand in March. 1931, “Tight Feather” nointed on't the obvious mistake which has now been committed a 1 i.'me Canada is famed for this sort of thine-. It was previously blared forth that, a Barred Plymouth Rock Vion had laid 358 ecws in 385 days. _ It will be noted tha t the two "later claims nre for one egg less than for the Rock hen. . T+ will be noted that 50 national experts eh cored this wonder hen. One ' wonders what claim these men have to formed “experts.” The latter should hav« the knowledge of what h*>e been done in the world of eggs, which apparently they have not. SOME SEASONABLE HINTS. Keep all drinking vessels scruplousIv clean, replenished daily with fresh water. ‘ . Provide ample green teed. It is astonishing how much green food poultrv will eat. When I write green food T mean soft, tender plants, such as lettuce, for chickens, and for the nlrlpr fowls silver beet, kale, Chou Molliev or chaffed, lucerne or green * oats, lmt do not give long, stringy crass; it will result in what is commonly termed crop hound or sour crop. If fowls are kept under confined, eondi+ions provide a dust hath. Who+her confined or on free range nrovid" nlentv of crit:. this is necesenrv if sound shelled- eggs are looked for.