The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-06-30
Attendance at Demonstrations
Caused Specialist to Change
Mind on Conditions Here.
GREAT SATISFACTION
Advancement Shown by Peo-
pie Affords Pleasure to u.
of I. Demonstration.

In une recent poultry dem0nStra-
tions which have been conducted by
Prem Moore, University of Idaho ex-
tension division poultry specialist, he
expressed a great deal of satisfaction
at the interest the people have shown
and the manner in which they are
culling from their focks the low pro-
ducing hens. MIR. Moore felt when he
came into this county, it being pri-
marily wheat growing country, that
the time which he spent here would
be almost a tota boss and no results
would be obtained; but after COM
pleting his work here he said that he
had certainly changed his mind for
the farmers in the county had shown
such interest in developing their farm
focks that he will return some time
in October to do some mating work.
In Mr.. Moore's % demonstrations in
this county, he laid particular stress
on the following points, which are
taken from his bulletin on Poultry
Husbandry in Idaho:
judging Fowls for Egg Production.
For judging fowls for egg produc-
tton there can be no better system
than the one adopted by the "Ameri-
can Association of Instructors and In
vestigators in Poultry Husbandry."
which is as follows:
I'm order to lay well a bird must
hAd A..
GRAFTON bird must be vigorous and
healthy if it is to be able to Law well
Vigor and health are shown by
bright, clear eye, well set body. a
comparatively active disposition and
a good circula ton.
Further, the bird must be free
from physical defects, such as crook
ed beak, excessively long toe nails.
eyelids that overhang so that the bird
cannot see we'll, scaly leg or anything
else that would keep the bird from
seeing or getting an abundance of
food.
Color OF pigmentation changes
These should be observed by daylight
A laying fowl uses up the surplus fat
In the body; especially it removes the
rat from the skin. In yellow-skinnef,
breeds this loss of fat can readily ha
seen by the loss of the yellow color.
Inc dlHerent parts of the body be-
come white, according to the amount
OF rat stored in the body and the
amount of ciroulafioo "a -, -.
that part The changes occur in the
following order:
The vent changes very quickly
with egg production so that a white
or pink vent on yellow-skinned bird
generally means that the bird is law
ing, while yellow vent means that
bird is not laying. 1t should. be
recognized that all yellow color chang
es are dependent on the feed. coarse
ness or skin and size of the bird A
heavy bird fed on an abundance ~
green feed or other material that will
color the fat deep yellow will NOT
bleach out nearly as quickly as n
smaller, paler yellow bird.
The evenings, that is the iner edgos
OF the eyelids, bleach out a trifle slow
er than the vent The earlobes on loo
horns and Anconas bleach out n little
slower than the eyering SO that a
oieached earlobe means a little longer
or greater production than bleacbed
vent or eyelid.
The color goes out of the Beak he
ginning at the base and gradually die
appears suntil it finally leaves tbe
front part of the upper beak Tho
lower beak bleaches faster than the
upper but may be used when the nm.
per is obscured by horn or black I'm
the averaged colored, yellow skinned
bird a bleached beak means heavy
production for at least the past four
to six weeks.
The shanks are the slowast r.
bleach out and hence indicate a mncb
longer period of production than the