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Vie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 18, 1922 
an a Brooder 
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THE HENYARD 
Ration for Ducklings 
Will you give rue a good ration to feed 
ducklings, and also tell me how to care 
for them? Last year I hatched 125, and 
raised only TO. They did all right until 
they wore three or four weeks old, and 
then they got weak in their legs and 
would sit around, and then die. I fed 
one-third cornmeal and two-thirds wheat 
middlings. They had grit, and water to 
drink, a dry place nights. B. R. p. 
Lounsberry, X. Y. 
Try the following ration for your 
ducks: Until they are about 20 days old 
give wheat, hrau, two parts; cornmeal, 
one part; rolled oats, 50 per cent, of this 
bulk; beef scraps, live per cent; sand, 
five per cent; green food, 10 per cent. If 
the ducks are to he fattened for market 
the cornmeal should be increased, also 
the beef scraps, after they are about six 
weeks old. If they are to be kept for 
breeding purposes give practically the 
same ration, with the omission of the 
rolled oats. Many breeders give this 
mixed with milk or water to a dry, 
crumbly state, hut I like to mix the 
grains with milk m* buttermilk, adding 
enough soda to neutralize the acid, then 
bake as a johnny cake. This I soften 
with milk or water, then add the sand. 
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Poor Hatches 
I have six White Rock pullets, each 
one having the web of its foot marked 
by a punch. Seller said that they were 
May-hatched. The first pullet started 
laying December 81. The first pullet to 
start laying is still laying, and she is 
laying no less than five days a week, and 
most of the time six. She weighs 7 }/ s 
lbs., and lays a nicely shaped and colored 
egg, My other live pullets are laying 
almost as well, but have taken about a 
week’s rest. I have had only one hen 
that was broody, and she was easily 
broken up. Two of the pallets do not 
lay such big eggs as the others. I bought 
a cockerel from a Western breeder of 
White Rocks. He was supposed to have 
come from trap-nested stock. When he 
matured he weighed just 10 lbs., which 
was too big for a breeder. All I could 
get was five and six chicks from a sitting 
of 15 eggs until the last hatch, which was 
late: I got 12 chicks from 14 eggs. The 
other sittings of eggs seemed to be fertile, 
but the chicks did not have strength 
enough to got out. Which was to blame, 
the overgrown cockerel or the pullets not 
being old enough? They have a very 
large henyard, all the grass they wanted 
to eat. A. b. 
New York. 
The male bird is probably not at fault 
in this case, since the eggs are fertile. 
The pullets have laid heavily for a long 
time under intensive conditions of care 
and lack the necessary vigor to transmit 
strong vitality to their offspring. Some 
pullets never attain this vigor at any age. 
There can be no objection to mating 
those pullets another season to a cockerel 
of the same strain if both pullets and 
cockerel are well developed, strong and 
vigorous. In fact. it. would be better to 
do this than to mix strains if you wish 
to preserve the characteristics that have 
been bred into the strain you have. If 
you wish to hatch from these pullets 
another year and obtain as many strong 
chicks as possible do not confine them 
closely and force them to the limit of 
laying by heavy feeding through the Win¬ 
ter. Give them as much liberty as pos¬ 
sible and .an opportunity to store up 
vigor by a rest from heavy laying during 
the early part of the Winter. The care 
of a pen kept for breeding should be 
somewhat different from that of one 
maintained for the sole purpose of ob¬ 
taining the maximum number of eggs in 
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I have fed them for several years in the 
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