Till-: CALL OF THE HEN. (l 1 



We will drop her and take another from the. crate, and go 

 through the same movements as before. This hen may be a 

 one-finger-abdomen hen also, in good condition, with pelvic 

 bone */2 inch thick, as in Fig. 28, and by consulting Chart 1 

 we find she is an 8-egg type hen. 



We drop her and take another from the crate. She may 

 be a hen with one-finger abdomen, as in Fig. 12. When we 

 examine her condition, we find she is like Fig. 20, which 

 indicates that she is one finger out of condition (the subject 

 of "Condition" is explained in Chapter V.); her pelvic bone 

 may be Vie of an inch thick, as in Fig. 24. This hen will 

 read different from the other hen that was Vie pelvic bone. 

 This hen is out of condition. She may have been in condition 

 up to a few weeks previous to our examination of her; the 

 cause of her lack of condition may be improper food or care, 

 or both, or it may be due to moulting, or she may have been 

 broody. In any of these cases it would not be the hen's 

 fault that she was out of condition, and she should not be 

 held responsible for it. Her condition indicates that there 

 is something wrong, and it's up to her owner to right the 

 wrong, and when we do right the wrong, the hen will come 

 back into condition, and her abdomen will then measure two 

 fingers instead of one finger. We must, therefore, read her 

 as a two-finger-abdomen hen, Vie-mch pelvic bone, when, 

 by looking on Chart 2, we find her capacity would be 96 

 eggs her first laying year, if we kept her in condition. 



We will drop her, and take another hen out of the crate. 

 This hen may be a one-finger-abdomen hen, as in Fig. 12. 

 When we examine her for condition, we find her as in Fig. 21; 

 this indicates that she is two fingers out of condition; her 

 pelvic bone may be Vie of an inch. Under her present 

 condition, she might lay 36 eggs her first laying year, whereas, 

 if she were kept in good condition, she would have a three- 

 finger abdomen. She might lay 180 eggs. 



We will drop this hen and take up another one. She 

 may be two fingers abdomen and her breast-bone may be as 

 in Fig. 19. Her pelvic bone may be Vie of an inch. We 

 would read her as a two-finger-abdomen hen in good condi- 

 tion, pelvic bones Vie of an inch thick. We will look on 

 Chart 2 at Vie-inch pelvic bone, and find she is a 96-egg 

 type hen. 



