Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-11-26
POULTRY TALK
(By Joseph r. Farrington.)


These are called the pelvic or lay
bones. and are just above the vent
through which the eggs must pass.
When an egg is laid. these bones
must be FOR Ell apart to allow its
free passage When these bones are
soft and pliabie, and spread sufii-
cient to allow three fingers to be
placed between them, ii Is an indi.
cation that the hen is laying.
If they are hard and bony, and
close together, the hen would not
be considered ms laying at that time.
Experience has shown that this
method will usually tell whether or
not a hen f. laying at the time the
examination was made.
II Is curious fact that while we
pay no attention to theories about
feeding, that come from those that
have had no scientific education or
extended experience, when they tax
about feeding cattle or swine, we
take such theorizers at their face
value. very often. when they begin
; to talk about feeding chickens.
Not so long ago an Eastern expert
ment station published a bulletin
containing a good many feed formu-
! las furnished by poultry raisers In
| the State where the bulletin was
published, saying these formulas had
been found satisfactory by those FUR
/ nishing them II requires only q
/ little knowledge of the science oil
| feeding to see that these formulas
contradict each other and that not
| n single one of them Is built upon
! any knowledge of the comparative
I values of the feed composing them
Il seems that feed formula for
poultry Is held to be something mys'
terious, as II nothing had ever been
done to determine what nutritive'
and what proportion of them should
be used in feeding poultry for a spe
cinc purpose.
Not every poultry breeder has had
an opportunity to secure an educa'
ton along the lines that treat OF the
science OF feeding, and do no.
think II good plan to enter too
deeply into this matter when discuss
ing feed formulas.
If feed my laying hens mixture
of grain which contains five pounds
of corn, ten pounds of wheat and tel
pounds of kaflr corn, know mus
give them two and one-half pound
of beef scraps in order to furnish
them with the nutritives which arr
necessary to great egg production
writes Miller Peryis, In the Farm
World
, II, for part of the wheat, ! sub
stitute an equal weight of middlings
and for a part of the corn | substi
: tute corn meal, In order to be alb!
to feed mash once day, 1t does no
change the nutritive ratio enough t
make any practical difference.
II ! could get all the milk m
. hens would consume | could leav
, off the beef scrap entirely with goo
1 results in the way of eggs.
= If It Is summer time and my hen
? have liberty to run about the farm
5 know | can drop beef scrap alto
n gether and still get lot of eggs
4 for the hens will find enough bug
= and worms to supply the demand 70
+ meat.
If anything has been absolutely ei
tablished as to feeding poultry, e'
d cept geese. 1t is that animal feed
9 some kind is positively necessary t
J. rapid and symmetrical growth whe
I young and to promote egg produ
s tion after the hens come to the la!
- ing age.
II This animal feed may be bui
and worms picked up on the rang
e It may be the dried and ground BET
e scraps prepared for poultry feed,