EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS.
WORLD'S RECOKD PUT CP. (By Telegraph-—Tress Association.) CHRTSTOmJRICH, Last Night. The New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's eighth egg-laying competition 'was 'finished yesterday. For th©-.51 ; weeks 360 fowls recorded 72,322 eggs, .and sixty ducks yielded 12,057. eggs;, an average- of over 200 eggs per bird, an achievement that Iwis never been recorded • itiit any competition with such a large flock of birds. The honours went to W. A. Nixon's White Leghorns in the fowl te«t, and to T. R. Hall's Indian Runners in ducks. In laying 1614 eggs in ,51 weeks Nixon's birds have established' a world's record, and his team passed tiirougli the test without a death, as also did Hall's <hicks. llie feedings wa& ve»ry much the same as in previous tests. There was not a single death in the whole of the competing ducks, arid only about 5 per oent in the fowls.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 April 1913, Page 5
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147EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 April 1913, Page 5
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