SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



W. W. KULP, Pottstown, Pa. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE AND ROSE-COMB WHITE AND BROWN LEG- 

 HORNS, WHITE WYANDOTTES, BUFF AND BARRED 

 ROCKS, AND PEKIN DUCKS 



A. 33. Twenty-five. 



A. 34. When well grown. I raise Leghorns and they 

 cannot be separated unless they are put in a covered pen and 

 this should not be done until they are grown. 



A. 37. Same as the chicks, as they are both growing 

 stock. 



F. C. SHEPARD, Toledo, Ohio 



SPECIALTY BREEDER OF BUFF PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 33. I house from 15 to 30 together. They have the 

 range of five acres. 



A. 34. At about when the cockerels begin to crow. 



A. 35. Sometimes late in the season I find it advisable 

 to put the more vigorous ones by themselves 



A. 36. Place them in small pens built for that purpose. 



A. 37 and 38. Same as for breeding and adult stock. 



AUG. D. ARNOLD, Dillsburg, Pa. 



COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 33. From 50 to 150. 



A. 34. When males begin to get active. 



A. 35. As soon as they get to fighting I separate them; 

 as long as they agree I keep them in lots of ten to fifteen. 



A. 36. I have individual coops 3 feet wide and 4 feet 

 long; here they stay until sold or used for breeding 



A. 37. Coarse cracked corn and wheat mixed with hulled 

 oats every few days. Also twice a week plenty of green bone. 



A. 38. Expect to try dry hopper feeding the coming 

 season. 



A. 36. Sort them and place the smaller ones in separate 

 yards, as some always mature faster than others. 



A. 37. Mixed rations of corn, wheat, millet, kaffir corn, 

 ground oats, beef scraps, grit and charcoal. 



A. 38. Scatter the feed on the ground and in troughs, 

 twice daily. 



E. B. THOMPSON, Amenia, N. Y. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 33. About 30 growing chicks to a house. They have 

 unlimited range. 



A. 34. Four to six months. 



A. 35. Yes. 



A. 37. Cracked corn and wheat, also a mash every day 

 including ground oats. The ground oats is a great bone making 

 food for growing stock. 



A. 38. The dry food is fed from hoppers, the mash on 

 boards. 



WM. BYWATERS, Camden Point, Mo. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 33. Free range mostly for young stock. 



A. 34. Usually about 5 months or just as they begin to 

 take on their adult plumage. 



A. 35. Yes, if they are top-notch show birds, but usually 

 quite a number will do well together if no pullets are close by. 



A. 36. If I have very valuable show birds that I am pre- 

 paring to show or send to customers for that purpose, I scatter 

 them out in my breeding yards. 



A. 38. On free range they do very well on two feeds 

 daily. 



GARDNER & DUNNING, Auburn, N. Y. 



BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 33. About 25. 



A. 34. At about four or five months. 



A. 35. Only the most valuable ones. Others run in 

 flocks of 20 or 25 till sold. 



A. 36. Those intended for exhibition are put in small 

 pens before they are old enough to fight and injure themselves 

 or be injured by other cockerels. 



A. 37. Cracked corn, wheat and beef scrap. They have 

 free range with clover and insects. Also running water. 



A. 38. All they will eat up clean three times per day dry. 



A. OBERNDORF, Centralia, Kansas 



BREEDER OF SINGLE-COME WHITE LEGHORNS ANDIBARRED 

 PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 33. Not over 30. 



A. 34. From six to eight weeks'old. 



A. 35. Yes. 



J. C. MACOMBER, Reading, Mass. 



BREEDER OF PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTES AND BARRED 

 PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 33. About 75. 



A. 34. From two to three months. 



A. 35. I do. 



A. 36. If there are a few that grow much faster and are 

 larger than the others, I take them out and put them in with 

 those of their size. If there are a few that are not growing so 

 well as the others, I take them out, and put them with smaller 

 ones or ones of their size. 



A. 37. As soon as we get them off the mash and they 

 will eat the grain nicely, we give them as explained for chicks, 

 a feed of one part cracked corn, one part hulled oats and one part 

 wheat. Beef scrap is fed in hoppers all they want, also charcoal 

 and grit until they go into the colony houses. 



A. 38. As they are now on range and in colony houses, 

 we feed them the same grain rations as above, all they will eat 

 twice a day, at sunrise in the morning and about six o'clock at 

 night, or before sunset. Beef scrap is then taken away from 

 them, as being on range they find all the bugs, etc., that are 

 necessary and which takes the place of the beef scrap. We feed 

 them in this manner until October, when we put them in the 

 laying houses. 



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