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POULTRY BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT 



BREEDER OF POOR LAYERS 

 A94 20 eggs in a year. (Oregon Station.) 



phasis is placed on these 

 points as indicating di- 

 gestive capacity, for the 

 heavy layer must have 

 good digestion. No great 

 reliance, however, can be 

 placed on shape of body 

 as a method of identify- 

 ing the good layer. 

 There are good layers 

 with short bodies and 

 poor layers with long 

 bodies. (See Page 93.) 



The truth is that hens have not been bred systematically 



for high egg laying long enough to fix or develop any par- 

 ticular type as it relates to shape. 



The same can be said of the angle of the tail and the 



shape of the comb, though preference should be given to a 



rather large comb and a 



tail carried rather high. 



The head should be 



rather small, and leg 



bones not too large. In 



general make-up the 



fowl should not have 



what might be called a 



beefy build; rather, a 



trim, muscular build. A 



poor layer will usually 



have at the end of the 



laying year a better ap- 

 pearance than one that 



has made a heavy rec- WHITE LEGHORN HEN 



Ord. The hen at the Laid 1 egg in a year. (Oregon Station.) 



