PRAIRIE FARMER'S POULTRY BOOK 



stock is given free range, summer and winter. Some little 

 effort is made toward mating the flock by culling out every- 

 thing that should go to market and by purchasing new 

 cockerels, so as to maintain the vigor of the flock. A few 

 words along the line of mating the general flock may be helpful. 

 It would be far better if a few breeding pens could be made so 



A self-feeder for^mash, charcoal and oyster shell 



as to keep the breeding stock separate from the layers. Then 

 the laying stock could be forced for winter eggs, while the 

 breeders could be given the care and feeding required to 

 produce fertile eggs that would hatch sturdy chicks. \\'here 

 this cannot be done, the following course is advised : 



1. Cull out all the undesirable females. 



2. Remove from the flock all late hatched cockerels. If brothers and 

 sisters are to be mated they should be of outstanding quality and of 

 pronounced vigor and stamina. 



3. Keep the yearling cock birds, if they have proven of good breed- 

 ing quality. 



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