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Careful Hatching Puts the Finishing Touch 

 On the Fine Breeding of WENE CHICKS 



Checking the automatic con 

 trols of our Buckeye Stream 

 liner incubators before a set 

 ting of eggs is put in. 



The hatching 

 eggs are carefully 

 weighed and trayed before 

 setting. 



The trays of large selected 

 hatching eggs are set in the 

 incubators. 



The chicks are removed from 

 the separate hatchers and 

 put in chick boxes. 



From the hatching units the 

 chicks are transferred to 

 these racks awaiting sorting. 



The chicks are next care- 

 fully selected, sorted, and 

 counted to fill the orders. 



Pullets and cockerels are 

 separated by expert sexers 

 for those who order sexed 

 chicks. 



the sturdy selected chicks 

 go back into boxes for 

 shipment. 



Bloodtesting . . 



Wene was one of the Pioneers 



Now has U. S. - N. J. Pullorum 

 Controlled Rating 



The Wene Chick Farms was one of the first in the East to 

 initiate a bloodtesting program for the control and prevention 

 of pullorum disease and carry out the testing work on all 

 breeding flocks. We were one of the earliest subscribers to 

 the National Poultry Improvement Plan and our present official 

 rating is U. S. - N. J. Pullorum Controlled. The requirement under 

 this stage of the N.P.I. P. is that we can use hatching eggs only from flocks that have had less than 2% reaction 

 on the last bloodtest. However, we have gone beyond this official requirement, and this year most of our flocks 

 have had at least one clean test before any eggs were used for hatching purposes. A clean test is one in which 

 no reactors whatever were found. Our program requires that we continue testing throughout the season in order 

 to be doubly sure that the chicks you get will be free of pullorum. As you can readily see, such a strict blood- 

 testing program is a difficult one to carry out; but we feel it is well worth while, for it means that in Wene 

 Chicks you get, in addition to the fine breeding qualities behind them, chicks that are as nearly free of disease 

 as it is possible to get them with care and vigilant efforts. 



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In order to accelerate our program to establish disease-tree Hocks we have built up a larqe number of 

 breeding ilocks in fhe Sfafe of Maine, where the clear, cold climate and free ranges make it possible 

 to rear exceptionally healthy stock. The flocks from which we get these eggs are Maine - U. S. Pullorum 

 Clean and this year approximately 50% of our Super and Super X chicks will come from these breeders. 



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