Age And Eggs.
While it is generally known lat pulietts, as a rule, lay better ian do old hens, it frequently is ecessary to make a decisiuu as ) the proportion of each to keep the flock. A study of longne trap-nest records made at e Missouri Agricultural Sl.ition iow that egg production during ly year tends to be abort 88 ir cent of the production during e preceding year. Some cf the ns observed had individual rerds extending over an ughtar period. The average firstar record was 158 eggs. The cceeding records, each being lout 88 per cent of the one imediately preceding it, are there■e 140,124, no, 97, 86, 76 and , respectively.
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Northland Age, Volume 27, Issue 40, 21 October 1927, Page 6
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113Age And Eggs. Northland Age, Volume 27, Issue 40, 21 October 1927, Page 6
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