Milford chronicle., 1931-11-06
BLOOD TESTING
And CULLING OF
POULTRY FLOCKS
FlOcks Culled For VigOr,
Standard Breed And
Egg Production

The blood testing and culling of
poultry fiocks for the elimination of
Pullorum Disease (Bacillary White
Diarrhea) by the Poultry Depart
ment of the State Board of Agricul-
ture, has been progressing for the
last two months. So far this year,
$4,000 birds have been culled and
blood tested.
Flocks which are culled for vigor,
standard breed and egg production,
and are blood tested for PullOrum
Disease, are classified as Supervis-
ed-Tested flocks. Hatcheries using
eggs from these flocks are known as
Supervised-Teste Hatcheries. The
Department is now culling and
blood testing the flocks supplying
the hatcheries of Byron Pepper and
Sons, Georgetown; w. V. Steen,
DagsbOro; o. A. Newton & Son,
Bridgeville; D. Herman Hettinger,
Elsmere-W Wilmington; Frank b.
Austin, Milford; ElOn Hitch, Laur-
ell; Concord Poultry Farm, Will
mington, and the Collins Hatchery,
Milton.
Flocks which fulfill all the re-
quirements of the Supervised-Test
ed flOcks, and which are mated to
wing banded pedigTeed males, whose
dams laid 200 or more eggs in one
year in trapnest, are known as Ger
tifed-Tested flocks. The following
hatcheries produce Certilied-Tested
White Leghorn chickens: Charles
e. Grove, Milford; o. A. Newton &
Son, BridgeVille; Concord Poultry
Farm, Wilmington; Byron Pepper K
Sons, Georgetown; w. V. Steen,
Dagsboro, and the Warren Poultry
Farm, Lewes. Within a few weeks
when the work for this season will
he completed, an official list of the
Delaware hatcheries and breeding
hOcks under the supervision of the
State Board of Agriculture will be
printed and copies will be sent upon
request, to pOultrymen desiring
them.
In the bulletin containing the Of
fetal list, there will also be eX-
planned the Record of Performance
work, in which several poultrymen
are trapnesting their birds under
the inspection of the State Board of
Agriculture. Birds which lay 200 or
more eggs during the pullet year,
or 1870 or more eggs during each OF
the succeeding years, are classified
as Home Record of Performance
breeders. The chicks from such fe-
males, when mated to males whose
dams meet the required standards,
are known as Record of Perform
ance chicks. These chicks are wing
banded in order that the breeder
knows their ancestry. The pedi-
greed males produced from these
matings are used to head the tiocks I
of poultrymen producing Certified
Tested eggs, in order to increase the
average egg production of fiocks OF
the State. The following poultry
men are carrying on Home Record
of Performance work: o. A. Newton
& Son, Bridgeville; Concord Poultry
Farm, Wilmington; Charles E.
Grove, Milford; F. B. Austin, Mil
ford; D. Herman Hettinger, Els
Wilmington; Robert o. Boyce,
Seaford; +. T. Warrington, George
town; WV. Steen, Dagsboro; w. B. |
Greenwood; Warren Poul-
airy Farm, Lewes, and Pencader |
Poultry Farm, Newark.
Since the fall of 1929, standardiza-
ton of turkey breeding flocks has |
been in force. At the present time,
there are four flocks that meet the
requirements of Certifid Meat Pro-
duction Flocks. These fiocks are
owned by Miss Mary R. LOCKER
man, Greenwood; Mrs. Hannah NJ.
Rehoboth Beach; Ray
mond Lank, Milton, and Joseph Kir-
by. Milford.