ELECTRIFIED HENS
MORE WINTER EGGS. Fowls in future will be electrified in more ways than one. According to a paper read by Mr. Borlace Matthews, the poultry expert, to a conference of poultry breeders at Newport, Shropshire, hens require electricity for lighting, heating, incubators, fans, grain crushers, water-pumps, baths, ultraviolet rays, and ozone. They will not lay electric eggs, but golden eggs, because, given those advantages, their yield of “best.new laid” will be increased by nearly 59 per cent, in the winter, when eggs arc most valuable. The poultry farmer who treats his crowing chicks with ultra-violet rays will also find that they grow nearlv twice r:s fast, experiment having proved that, young birds nine weeks old treated in this way for 10 minutes a day were twice as heavy as thosa not treated.
Eleetiie light in hen houses on wintor mornings por.-mi 'ce the birds that the sun has risen so they get up and begin wont much earlier. Mr Matthews advises poultry farmers either to give their birds oh-otn-enllv made ozone as provided in Lon- ' don" tube railways or 1o bathe them with electricity radiated from electric wires over their porches.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16202, 27 November 1926, Page 9
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