Poultry Egg Quality Needs Better Handling Practices
Poultry Extension specialist H. H. Alp explains that fertile eggs from roosters in warm months cause losses totaling about 5 million dollars in 1980. He urges double to triple daily egg gathering, cooling before casing, cool storage at 82 to 60 degrees, clean facilities, fresh litter, and adequate nesting space to reduce dirt, breakage, egg eating, and floor laying.
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H. H. Alp
College of Agriculture
University of Ilinois
WNU
Illinois
Feed Mixtures on Which Chickens Will Thrive
A Dakota Farmer guide outlines a chick mash formula using 150 lb ground yellow corn, 100 lb wheat bran, 100 lb oat flour, 75 lb wheat shorts, 50 lb meat scrap. Add alfalfa leaf meal per 100 lb mash if no greens. use bone meat if meat scrap absent. mix 1 lb salt and 1 pint cod liver oil per 100 lb mash. cod liver oil blended with bran first. Ensure oyster shell or limestone and calories kept available.
Successful Pullet Raising Netting 27 Cents A Pullet
Anna Corrigan of Dakota County Minnesota raised eighty pullets between October 18 and November 16 laying 1,150 eggs in eighty days. She fed 300 pounds of egg mash and two bushels barley plus one and a quarter bushels wheat with alfalfa leaves oyster shells and cod liver oil. Feed cost was four cents while income reached 31.08 dollars, about 83 cents per dozen, yielding a net return of 21.74 dollars or 27 cents per pullet for Capper's Farmer.
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Anna Corrigan
Dakota County
Minnesota
Mash and Milk Improve Poultry Rations
Prairie Farmer reports at Ohio State University tests on chickens of identical breed and conditions found feeding part of the ration as a wet mash increased production by 24 eggs per bird over a year compared with a dry-only ration.
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Ohio State University
Feather Picking in Fowl Fights Through Outing Flock
The taste of blood from freshly plucked quill provokes feather picking among fowls. Isolating birds by turning the flock outdoors is the surest way to stop the practice. Tar may be daubed on bleeding points to discourage attackers. Bleeding results from any skin injury.
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New Yorker
Let Sun Shine In for Healthier Poultry Housing
Sunlight should flood poultry house fronts on warm days to keep the flock strong and healthy and to dry the house. Light improves flock health and shell strength of eggs, states DB W Henderson of Iowa State College. Soft shelled eggs often result from insufficient sunlight.
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DB. W. Henderson
Iowa State College
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