54 THE CALL, OF THE HEN. 



We will drop her and take another. She may be another 

 three finger abdomen hen like Fig. 14. She may be in good 

 condition like Fig. 19 and her Pelvic Bone may be 1-2 inch 

 thick, like Fig. 28. She would read three finger abdomen, 

 good condition, one-half inch Pelvic Bone. We will look on 

 No. 3 Chart, at 1-2 in. Pelvic Bone and find this hen is an 

 82 egg type hen. We will take another hen. She may be 

 three fingers abdomen like Fig. 14. She may be in good con- 

 dition like No. 19 and her Pelvic Bones may be 3-4 inch (three- 

 fourths inch thick), as in Fig. 29. We will read her as a three 

 fingered hen, in good condition, 3-4 Pelvic Bone. We will look 

 on No. 3 chart at 3-4 inch Pelvic Bone and find she is a twenty- 

 six egg type hen. 



We will pick up another hen. She may be three fingers 

 capacity as in Fig. 14. She may be three fingers out of condi- 

 tion as in Fig. 22, and her Pelvic Bones may be 1-16 of an 

 inch thick as in Fig. 24. We would read this hen as three 

 fingers abdomen; three fingers out of condition and l-16th 

 (one sixteenth) Pelvic Bone. When a hen is three fingers out 

 of condition, she is in a serious way. She may have been set- 

 ting or laying heavy and have been underfed. In either case, 

 good care and plenty of the right kind of feed will bring her 

 back into condition, provided she has not contracted tubercu- 

 losis, (going light) or some other wasting disease, I will 

 cite a couple of cases, out of hundreds that have come under 

 my observation, one was a barred rock hen that I intended to 

 set on duck eggs. She was six fingers abdomen, in good con- 

 dition when I put her on the nest, and 1-4 inch Pelvic Bones. 

 That indicated that she was a 235 egg type hen. She was on 

 the nest two weeks before the duck eggs arrived and four 

 weeks on the duck eggs making six weeks setting. Owing to 

 stress of other vork and being confined in an out of the way 

 place she was somewhat neglected and when the ducklings 

 were hatched she was three fingers abdomen and three 

 finge's out of condition thus indicating a 138 egg type hen. 

 Six weeks later she was laying and had developed to six fin- 

 gers abdomen which was her normal condition. Another case 

 was where a gentleman was in a class that took instructions. 

 After the close of the meeting he brought a hen that was 

 three fingers out of condition. He said that was his best hen 

 and asked me how many eggs she would lay. She was three 



