BREEDING AND HATCHING 43) 
intend to handle, and select each bird with 
the points coming nearest those qualifi- 
cations. 
Some writers advise mating pullets to two 
year old roosters or vice versa but it seems 
to me the main point would be that the breed- 
ers should be strong, healthy birds. I believe 
that fully developed pullets after having 
laid their first small eggs, if bred to fully 
developed cockerels would produce as strong 
healthy chickens as if the ages of the 
breeders, were different. 
