White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-06-01
POULTRY
Make Chicks Work.
Assuming that you are not stinting

your growing birds on either water or
green feed, there are three other
groups of food nutrients that they
must have to develop properly-as
for bone-forming material, protein for
tissue and muscle building and car
bohydrates for producing reat, energy
and fat. If you stint them on ash
they will be less sturdy than other
wise, but their bones will be hard
enough if they have the material.
Crooked breast bones are due not to
going to roost too early in life, but
to their being too soft. Various
grains-wheat, corn and oats-are the
heat and energy producing foods
CHAT is why we fill the birds up at
night, and protein is necessary If a
chick Is to be we'll muscled.
BY keeping chicks as quiet as pos
sible, and close to the brooder stove,
we could conserve heat and energy
and the foods that produce them. By
feeding them on a bare floor, where
there is nothing for them to do ex-
cept to pick up the grain and swallow
1t, we could save considerably on pro-
TEN feeds, but such procedure would
hardly produce good birds. Presently
they would be putty-faced, knock
kneed and pale-shanked We would
not expect them to lay, even if they
reached maturity On the contrary,
the thing to do, if you really want
good pullets, is to get them outdoors
as early as possible, and in the mean
time make them work and work hard.
The shortcut straw in which their
grain is scattered should be an inch
deep when they are week old, two
inches deep when they are month
old. By working for their feed and
80 using protein, they will be getting
better and better" every day. We
have not paid enough attention to
vigor in growing fowls, as the heavy
mortality shows.
One of the big egg handlers eau
tions producers not to wash or wipe
off eggs with damp cloth during the
months of March, April, May and
June. He declares that 1t Is better
even to ship dirty or stained eggs as
they come from the nest. On the
other hand, he points out that the
percentage of dirty or stained eggs
can be held to minimum by confln-
ing hens to clean, dry yards or houses,
changing litter on laying house floors
and restraining nests as often as is
necessary to insure clean, dry con-
dition
An incubator hatch Of lot chicks
from 121 eggs is claimed by Mrs. G..
Amsden, of Spokane, to be the record
of the season. The stock Is from her
own mating and the results obtained
were by careful feeding and breeding
of her uen OF single comb Rhode
Island Reds. Ninety-eight chicks were
sold to one party and only three Grip
pies developed during incubation.
Many eggs this season were fertile,
but not hatchable Plenty of runs in
the green grass accounts for the won
derful vigor and vitality. Mrs. Ans
den believes.
The first Barred Rock hen to lay
1000 eggs In her lifetime Is F377,
owned by the Oregon Agricultural col
lege, who laid her thousandth egg
April "a. She was Matched May 20,
1915, and began laying January s,
1916. Her yearly record is as fol-
lows: First, 227 second. 1870; third,
1872; fourth, 1874; fifth. 1875; sixth, 81,
seventh, no; eighth, 81, to April "a.
She laid her 1001st egg April 25. F377
comes Of race of layers, most of
her ancestors for four or more gen.
erations back having records Of 200
or more a year. She is still hale and
hearty.