POULTRY NOTES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 17, 3 January 1920, Page 7

POULTRY NOTES.

SELECTING PULLETS FUR HIGH EGG PRODUCTION. ’•'uE’ It follows then, that egg production can-be quite accurately estimated' M advance by,.actual-egg production .-in April* and May. I mean as to natural wggAayinir. capacity.. With Us, we have I done this to a point almost 100 per cent accurate. Also the same test holds good generally in February and March for--yearling nena (i;e. the.Jatq moulders) —for the- long distance layers, on the basis of persistence. - By long distance -we - mean for more than -- one year, referring to .the. individual hen that lays especially well over x period of two* years or "Several ’years. ‘ abqnt 'the Spring months, the normal flush • >season egg- production?. At this season of. usual maximum production,-'under’ average natural * conditional is there any means of differentiation? 'Professor Dryden ’ -says “Recently I have had to Revise - my 'views on -Spring production. * It- was a matter of. study/.of .progress on part as an investigator. What I: mean te that our • late recoids show very, conclusively a decided difference in favour of tiie high record, flush-Mason hen, as *to' breeding value and inherent laying capacity. In this connection I have found -that in many ways the'flush season of the year is the best, period for selecting the high era producer and the long distance bird- My’late conclusion is that thbre is a strong connection between Spring production and annual production.” Next weejk will appear a summary of IT, and IBP oh this important subject.