Poultry Packaging Boosts Egg Profits and Innovation
The article notes that attractive egg packaging raises prices and prompts careful handling. It highlights a patented egg washing machine, and describes W. Ware of Hammonton NJ with a novel outdoor nest system for easy cleaning. It also touches on the origin of the phrase stealing thunder linked to John Dennis in Queen Anne England.
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Fowl with Large Appetite How to spot high producing hens
The article explains that a hen's appetite and production quality are indicated by the crop size and body shape. A wedge shaped body from rear ribs suggests greater capacity, while a high producer has soft pliable skin over the breast bone and abdomen. In contrast a nonproducer shows a hard leathery feel and fat filled body cavity.
Make Nest Boxes Movable Easy Opportunity Afforded
The article urges making nest boxes movable to allow thorough cleaning and easier fighting vermin in the henhouse. It notes nailing nests, roosts, and fixtures to the building is old practice and suggests removing that method for better maintenance and pest control.
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