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Twelfth Random Sample Laying Test : 1968-1969 : Litter, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

TWELFTH RANDOM SAMPLE LAYING TEST,

1968-69-LITTER

POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, WEMBLEY

THIRD PROGRESSIVE REPORT TO 4th MAY, 1969

Introduction Of The Red-Browed Finch To Western Australia, John L. Long

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE Red-browed Finch (Estrilda temporalis) has been established probably since 1958 in orchard clearings in Darling Range gullies east of Perth.

Although some concern has been shown at the introduction of a new species to Western Australia, it appears to be of little economic importance.

Seasonal Changes In Densities, Distribution And Movements Of Sparrow Hawks, Martin D. Jakle

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Eleventh Random Sample Laying Test : 1967-68 Cages, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

ELEVENTH RANDOM SAMPLE LAYING TEST,

1967-68 - CAGES

POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, WEMBLEY

SIXTH PROGRESSIVE REPORT TO 3rd NOVEMBER, 1968

Twelfth Random Sample Laying Test : 1968-69 : Cages, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

TWELFTH RANDOM SAMPLE LAYING TEST,

1968-69 - CAGES

POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, WEMBLEY

SECOND PROGRESSIVE REPORT TO 2nd MARCH, 1969

Twelfth Random Sample Laying Test : 1968-69 : Cages, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

TWELFTH RANDOM SAMPLE LAYING TEST, 1968-69 - CAGES

POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, WEMBLEY

FOURTH PROGRESSIVE REPORT TO 1st JUNE, 1969 Average age of birds 308 days or 44 weeks.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (January 1969) 37(1)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

Barnacle Goose Taken in Nebraska.................... 2

Growth and Calculation of Age in the American Goldfinch.................... 3

1968 Fall Field Day ....................15

Albino Screech Owl ....................16

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (Oct 1968) 36(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1968 (Forty-third) Spring Migration and Occurrence Report ......................70

Three Apparently New Records for Nebraska ......................76

Book Reviews...................... 78

Notes ......................81

Index of Volume XXXVI ......................85

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (July 1968) 36(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Avian Antagonistic Response to Potential Red-headed Woodpecker Predation .......................50

The Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting....................... 52

Additions to Lincoln County Checklist .......................54

Book Reviews....................... 57

1967 (Tenth) Fall Occurrence Report .......................58

Notes .......................67

Correction to 1967 Nebraska Nesting Survey .......................68

The "New" Cover .......................68

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (April 1968) 36(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Growth of Nestling Goldfinches Compared to Adult Size and Differential Development Rate of Structures in Relation to their Function ......................22

Winter Meeting......................32

A Golden Eagle Nest in'the Pine Ridge......................33

1967 Nebraska Nesting Survey......................35

1967 Christmas Count......................42

1968 Migratory Bird Stamp......................46

Notes......................46

Treasurer's Report......................48

Entering The Egg Industry With Laying Cages, W Ward

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

DEPARTMENT of Agriculture Bulletin 3579, "Entering the Egg Industry with Laying Cages", by W. Ward, examines various aspects of the cage system of housing laying hens.

This system is by far the most popular method of housing layers, with 90 per cent, of new farms using cages and many daep litter farms now converting to cages.

Space Requirements For Pullets And Layers On Litter, A H. Lean

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

UNEVEN growth, cannibalism, weakened resistance to disease, unsanitary conditions and poor production commonly arise from failure to provide sufficient floor, feed and watering space for pullets and layers.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (Jan 1968) 36(1)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1967 (Forty-second) Spring Migration and Occurrence Report ...................2

Notes ...................10

Swans ...................16

1967 Fall Field Day...................19

Pritchard Designs 1968 "Duck" Stamp ...................20

In Memoriam - Leroy M. Gates ...................20

Pollorum Tested Poultry Flocks, 1966-67, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

PULLORUM disease has been virtually eliminated from breeding and hatchery poultry flocks in Western Australia by the annual blood-testing of all birds and the destruction of reactors.

Eleventh Random Sample Laying Tests, 1967-68 : Cages, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

ELEVENTH RANDOM SAMPLE LAYING TEST, 1967-68 - CAGES

POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, WEMBLEY

FOURTH PROGRESSIVE REPORT TO 2nd JUNE, 1968

Pendulous Crop Of Turkeys, M E. Bacon

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE condition known as pendulous crop occurs occasionally in a mild form in fowls, but the most commonly reported cases concern the classical symptoms that occur from time to time in turkeys.

The condition is also referred to as baggy crop, dropped crop, hanging crop and sour crop, and causes mortality, poor development and emaciation within turkey flocks in some areas.

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (October 1967) 35(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Book Reviews.................74

Notes .................77

Index of Volume XXXV .................78

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (July 1967) 35(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Range Expansion of the Chuck-will's-widow into Nebraska ...................50

Frequency of Parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds of Redwinged Blackbird Nests in Lancaster County, Nebraska ...................52

Correction to The 1966 Nesting Season................... 56

Long-eared Owl Nest in Nebraska................... 56

The Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting ...................58

Honorary Member -- Earl W. Glandon ...................59

1966 (Ninth) Fall Record Report................... 60

Raptor Research Foundation, Inc. ...................71

Notes ...................71

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (April 1967) 35(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Nesting of Great Horned Owls in Nebraska.....................26

The 1966 Nesting Season.....................29

1966 Christmas Count.....................38

Red-headed Woodpecker Predation on Starlings.....................43

Notes.....................44

Book Reviews.....................45

Nest Parasitism between Duck and Pheasants.....................47

Treasurer's Report.....................48

Ninth Random Sample Laying Test, 1965-66, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

NINTH RANDOM SAMPLE LAYING TEST, 1965-66

POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, WEMBLEY

FINAL REPORT TO 500 DAYS

Tenth Random Sample Laying Test, 1966-67 : Cages, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

TENTH RANDOM SAMPLE LAYING TEST, 1966-67 - CAGES

POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, WEMBLEY

SECOND PROGRESSIVE REPORT TO 26th FEBRUARY, 1967

Average age of birds 215.5 days or 30 weeks and 6 days.

Controlled Environment Broiler Houses In Western Australia, D F. Hessels

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The three main features which contribute to the better returns from controlled environment broiler housing are higher density, better conversion and a reduction in labour.

The higher initial cost of housing and higher running costs are more than covered by these three advantages.

Poultry Behaviour As It Affects Management, R H. Morris

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

UNDER natural conditions animals have considerable control over their movements and over their proximity to each other.

Today, however, there is a trend in animal husbandry towards greater intensificaton, and this is most evident in the poultry industry.

Tenth Random Sample Laying Test, 1966-67 : Litter, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

TENTH RANDOM SAMPLE LAYING TEST, 1966-67 - LITTER

POULTRY RESEARCH STATION, WEMBLEY

SECOND PROGRESSIVE REPORT TO 26th FEBRUARY,1967

Average age of birds 215.5 days or 30 weeks and 6 days.

Nebraska Bird Review (January 1967) 35(1), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

1966 (Forty-first) Spring Migration and Occurrence Report ... 2

Addition to 1965 Fall Record Report ... 22

1966 Fall Field Day ... 22

1966 Winter Meeting ... 22

Notes ... 23

In Memoriam—George W. Keim ... 24

—William G. Youngworth ... 24

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (October 1966) 34(4)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

Comparative Arrival Dates of Selected Migratory Birds in Selected Counties in Nebraska .................. 66

Sandhill Crane Casualties in the Blizzard of March 22, 1966 ........ 69

Ross' Geese in Nebraska ................................... 70

Mourning Dove Nesting Success and Nest Site Selection in a Sandhill Region of Nebraska ....................71

Possible Nesting McCown's and Chestnut-Collared Longspurs in Northwest Nebraska ............................ 75

Book Reviews ..................................................... 75

Notes ............................................................ 76

Index of Volume XXXIV ................................................. 78

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (July 1966) 34(3)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

An Early Record of the Ross' Goose in Nebraska ...................46

The Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting................... 47

Notes ...................49

In Memoriam - A. M. Jones ...................49

1965 (Eighth) Fall Record Report ...................50

Correction to 1963 Fall Record Report ...................58

Honorary Member - Alfred M. Bailey ...................59

Book Reviews................... 59

1965 Nest Card Survey ...................61

Whole Issue Nebraska Bird Review (April 1966) 34(2)

Nebraska Bird Review

Table of Contents

Treasurer's Report - 1965 ................................................................ 22

Progress Report on the Prairie Grouse Nesting Study in the Nebraska Sandhills ............................................................ 23

Nesting Birds of the Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge .... 31

1965 Christmas Count ............................................ ............................. 35

Excerpts from Letters ............................................................................. 39

Nesting Report - 1965 ........................................................................ 41

Western Kingbird Nesting in the Nebraska Sandhills ................ 44

Hooded Warbler in Logan County ...................................... 44

Nesting Birds Of The Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Roger S. Sharpe, Raphael Richard Payne

Nebraska Bird Review

The Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located in Garden County near the heart of the Nebraska Sandhill Lakes Region. This country is principally rolling mid-grass prairie, the hills reaching a height of as much as 200 feet above the wet meadows. A good portion of the refuge's 46,000 acres consists of these lush meadows which are pocked by marshes, potholes and small lakes. Natural drainage from the surrounding sandhills and springs in the basins feed these water bodies.

The lakes are quite shallow, reaching a depth of perhaps 15 feet. They are alkaline yet are not so highly basic …

Ua3/3/1 Comments On Activities At The Western Kentucky State College Farm, Orland Alford

WKU Administration Documents

Report regarding the management of the WKU Farm.