TEACHING HENS TO LAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)

TEACHING HENS TO LAY

The average lion lays many more eggs a year than formerly, the highest laying record in a recent competition in Britain being 2.i2 eggs per bird in the heavy breed section, represented by White Wyandottes, and 22ft eggs per bird in the light breed section, represented by White Leghorns. The cost of feeding was about 1 icl a week per bird, while the gross profit on the 2000 birds entered was lis IOJd a year for each bird. An experimental farm, with 500 poultry and all the latest devices to induce hens to lay more eggs, is to be established at Hull. The farm will have the most modern incubators and penning facilities, and the promoters hope that the result will greatly improve British poultry. Three hundred poultry breeders recently visited a huge mqdel poultry farm at Bilton, Hull, where they were shown the stock of 2000 birds. They were told that the manufacturers of poultry food had still much to learn about the direct effect on egg production of any material used in the mixture they prepared.