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Poultry Progress: What Are Good Chickens?, F. E. Mussehl
Poultry Progress: What Are Good Chickens?, F. E. Mussehl
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars
The desire for improvement is one of the highest of human virtues. Folks everywhere want good chickens. The poultry business is a competitive enterprise, and it is imperative that we have the best stock possible for the particular job to be done. But what are good chickens? Is there confusion about the term? Perhaps we can clarify the picture by asking one or two questions.
Why Some Hens Lay More Eggs Than Others, H. E. Alder
Why Some Hens Lay More Eggs Than Others, H. E. Alder
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars
The 1929 report of the Storrs Egg Laying Contest, which has been conducted at Storrs, Connecticut, twenty-one years, shows that the best pen of ten hens entered laid 2,802 eggs, and the poorest pen laid 829 eggs. In the best pen the average egg production per hen was 280, 2 eggs as compared with 82.9 eggs per bird in the poorest pen. Why did the one pen lay so many eggs, and the other so few? This prompts us to try to find out what factors are responsible for the number of eggs a hen lays in the course of …