Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-07-30

You will soon mate up your pens
for breeding. and there are certain
particulars YOU must bear in mind TO
bring success.
When you have culed out all over
three years old and those with gross
defects then take The Standard Of
Perfection" into the pen ana select
from the remainder those that are
nearest to the standard type.
If your fowls look like three cents
when you apply this criterion. it is
time TO buy new birds You can't
breed something out of nothing
STUDY YOUR BIRDS. Indeed. the
successful chicken hustler is always
studying his birds. The poultryman
who doesn't study hen nature and
thinks he has such a surplus of gray
matter that he can throw a breeding
pen together like boy pitching quoits
had better ''go away back and sit
down" for if he's up front he got in
on some other fellows stock or climbed
the fence.
Study your birds now. The people
who wait till they hear the whistle
blow before they start for the train
generally miss the last platform and
make fools of themselves.
There's no such thing as luck in
shaking chickens up like dice. You
may get a blank.
When the solons of the poultry world
who sell hens for a thousand dollars
apiece and cockerels for five hundred
and who have thousands of bonton
birds to select from must sit down for
day TO study out a single mating. is
that not a lesson for those who mate
their pens with breakneck speed?
If birds are mated now you may be
surprised at unforeseen changes you
viii make. You will thus catch the
drones, the hens that viii not frater-
nize with the male and eliminate from
the pen the hen that continually DULLES
the rest
BY this early removal of the birds to
a pen by themselves they may receive
that special care and feeding which are
necessary for them to have to insure
a good output of fertile eggs. for il
is fact that hens for breeding must
have different treatment from those
which are simply fed for market eggs
This is often overlooked until the first
test of the incubator shows great in
fertility. A great many poultrymen dc
their showing at the wrong end of the
hen wagon.
The hens that are pushed at the be
ginning of winter are up against the
wall when Matching time comes.
CHI
rate the male bird from the females
until breeding time TO promote his
productive powers is a big fake. Dc
this if You wish to ruin the head of the
pen
BAD Observation-Disclosures. = Re
ject birds with the following defects
Wry tails, crooked backs and breast
bones, side sprigs. lop combed males
squirrel tails. diminutive tails. Whit
faced coclSerels except Black Spanish
deformed beaks, purple barring, brassi
ness. white lobes in Wyandottes anC
Cochins, pinched tails. feathered shanl
on clean legged varieties, clean shank
on feather legged breeds. swinging
crops and drop wings
You need not wait three weeks f
discover if the eggs are fertile. Tes
them with strong light at the end o
five days.
If the eggs are all infertile. replac
the male bird with another If part o
the eggs are infertile, you either hav
too many hens or certain of the mem
bers of the harem do not stand in wei
with Mohammed. If a reconciliatio
cannot be made quickly, remove tn
offending squaws.