POULTRY WORLD

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 March 1934, Page 7

POULTRY WORLD

NEW SEASON LAYERS HINTS FOR THE AMATEUR. (By “Tight I Luther.”) . One woekl think that witn Unit has been wiytxen t>y practical pouiuiymeii mat even oegnine-is woinu. ituo.v; 3 now anu. wnac to iwi to acuieve too 1 best results, which in most instances, i means eggs. There, are several way s to get a nock or layers togecner. puts pain is to set tne eggs unu natch and l rear tne mucks. , Another piau is to - uiiy day-old clucks, Stall another pran - is to buy pullets ana ii the uegumcr ; wrsnes to commence now the latter ! scheme is tne only plan left. JL tne pullets are expected to begin to fay • ui April, it the breeder knew ins busiI ness they would have been batoned -not later than October, or, better still; in. , September. Then, providincr they nave l been looked alter property, turn, is to say housed and, fed. right, they shouiq oe cherry ripe for lay.ng round about I tne . first of April. I . I am writing of the most popular ; ot an breeds, the white Leghorn. 'The heavier breeds,- such •as the Or-, pmgton, may be hatched a fit tie ear- • t er. The same thing applies to all I I breeds for one hall of the breeding 1 .s what- goes down the throat. . Elggs are not to be produced at a minute s ; notice. The poujtryman who understands his business ivill start the egg and keep it growing, as it were, right ! from the shell and then as soon as the chick is hatched it is prepared for its business of laying eggs. No matter what the feed may be, r. wet or ury, it will be properly- ballanoed so. as; to produce bene, flesh, feather and eggs. . - V • ’ I if the novice decides to buy pullets., ho win be well advised to. go to a, , poult,ryman who will guarantee his stock; Learn how and what to feed and, above all. do not use such things I as. pepper:, specially prepared, spices,. ’ nd a double dose of blood, or meat,. J meal to make them lay. Such mert-hr , ods mav c-ause the young,, fowls to .lay i a few eggs earlier, but is much liter I Jier to interfere with their health. • I can remember such methods alien 1 I was a boy : in fact have used-them myself, but-"the result was that while I brisked up- a few fowls to . lay a little earlier, - it also caused some birds to lay their egg bags out with the straining. The latter is an evil which is also brought about with weakly constituted birds. When, to this is added feeding too mueh meat or blood meal, the result is chaos. In. order to get the best results it is- better to continue feeding in the same manner in which they have been used to-. Every breeder has * a formula which- he will' wish to pass on to a customer, or there are -several good prepared foods on the market which may -be preferi red. Never let the birds get really hungry at the same time do not force. Another thin-* one should always keepin mind: If the -birds- are used to drymash, do not change to moist, or vice versa; changing the system of feeding often causes the fowls to moult.