112 999 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 



QUESTION Is there any crossbred bird that will make a better 

 broiler than the Plymouth Rock or Wyandotte? 

 ANSWER No. 



QUESTION Are there any better birds than Leghorns for an 

 exclusive egg farm? 

 ANSWER No. 



QUESTION If one has enough females for two or more males 

 can they all be allowed to run together with good results? 



ANSWER It will be better to divide the females and confine each 

 lot with a male unless the entire flock has very wide range. 



QUESTION What are the effects of inbreeding? 



ANSWER Unfertilized eggs, weak germs, chicks dead in the 

 shell at hatching time, weakly chicks, chicks susceptible to all sorts 

 of disease without apparent cause and small, stunted specimens of 

 slow growth are some of the results. They are not always an indi- 

 cation of inbreeding, as they might be present from other causes, but 

 inbreeding will have those effects. 



QUESTION How many hen eggs can a bantam cover and 

 hatch? 



ANSWER Five or six, sometimes seven small ones in warm 

 weather. 



QUESTION Why do some Barred Plymouth Rocks lay more 

 eggs than others? 



ANSWER This is true with all the breeds and varieties. It may 

 be the result of right methods of feeding for egg production, or it 

 may be that the birds have been bred from heavy layers, and by se- 

 lection of the best layers for breeding each season a strain has been 

 established with good laying as one of its characteristics. 



QUESTION Does it really pay a busy poultryrnan to take the 

 time required to keep an egg record? 



ANSWER A poultryrnan who is in the business for profit can- 

 not afford to do otherwise. It enables him to weed out the non- 

 layers. 



QUESTION Is there one time in the year when birds can be 

 bought cheaper than another? 



ANSWER Breeders of exhibition stock usually make a special 

 price in June and July on breeding birds that they do not care to 

 carry over another season, and often stock can be purchased under 

 these conditions at less than its real value. 



