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The Henyard. 
The Daily or Alternate Layer. 
I should like to learn from some of 
your men who know, why it is that in the 
heavy breeds of chickens, some hens lay 
every day and others only on alternate 
days, where both are yarded together and 
receive same treatment. Does the daily 
layer produce any more eggs in a year 
than the alternate, or does she lay off 
longer between spells of production ? It 
would appear at first sight that the daily 
bird was the better, but is she ? 
Mobile, Ala. m. a. p. 
We have here, of course, a great many 
individual records. I will give you a few 
isolated instances, but not enough, I be¬ 
lieve, to warrant conclusions. I think 
I would like to add that the hen that lays 
every day of course is in a position to rest 
longer when she needs to. 
I find that in our first laying contest 
we had a Buff Orpington from West Vir¬ 
ginia that laid for 25 consecutive days, 
beginning March 20, which same indi¬ 
vidual laid 24 eggs in December, 28 in 
January, etc., and finished the year with 
a total production of 210. This is of 
course, not a despicable record by any 
means. 
Coining to the second egg-laying con¬ 
test, I find a Barred Rock from Penn¬ 
sylvania that laid for 61 consecutive days 
beginning February 22. This bird laid 
only three eggs during the first three 
months, and yet finished the year with 
206 to her credit. A .Rhode Island Red 
from New Hampshire laid for 88 con¬ 
secutive days, giving us 81 eggs m the 
month of August, and yielded 245 for 
the entire period. Another Red in this 
same pen produced 248 eggs for the year 
and her longer consecutive laying was 
over a period of 41 days. 
The best individual production in the 
second contest as you know, of course, 
was a White Leghorn of Mr. Barron’s 
that yielded 282 eggs. Her largest con¬ 
secutive number according to our records 
is 17. To take some other examples: I 
find a Canadian White Wyandotte that 
laid regularly each alternate day through 
January and February and then followed 
very closely a schedule of laying two days 
and skipping one for the next three 
months and finished the year with 174. 
A White Wyandotte from Pennsylvania 
laid an average of 15 eggs each month 
from December to May, both included, 
yet this bird seemed to have no regular 
schedule. She would have breaks of any¬ 
where from three days to a week without 
any production at all and at one time 
during this period laid no eggs for 16 
days. She laid 188 eggs during the year. 
A Rhode Island Red from this State 
followed very closely for about two 
months the program of producing two 
eggs and then skipping a day, yet she 
laid only 188 <*ggs and produced none at 
all in the last three months. A White 
Leghorn from Pennsylvania laid 178 eggs 
in 10 months, following very closely the 
rule of two days and skip one for 
about four months, two of these were 
at the beginning of the laying period 
and two mouths or a little more at the 
end. For the Intervening time she fol¬ 
lowed very closely the program of lay¬ 
ing three eggs and skipping a day, al¬ 
though this would vary a little, as for 
instance, in the month of June she laid 
five consecutive days before missing, and 
twice she laid four consecutive days 
without missing. During the month of 
July she laid four consecutive days and 
marie tip for this later in the month by- 
laying only two consecutive days so that 
her average right through the month was 
three days and skip one. These are all 
actual facts, but just what they mean I 
am sure I don’t know. They seem to 
indicate that the longest consecutive lay¬ 
ers are not necessarily the heaviest pro¬ 
ducers at the end of the year, and yet if 
a bird is going to lay 800 eggs she has 
got to stay pretty close on the job. 
\v. !•'. iURICPATUICK. 
Poor Hatch of Ducks. 
I had 500 ducks and 70 drakes, all 
running together. They hatehed well till 
March; then the eggs began to rot. They 
tested fairly good, but the second and 
third week they began to rot badly. I)o 
you consider the fault was in the feed¬ 
ing? I fed twice a day 1 % bushels bran, 
one-half bushel scrap with a few fish 
when we could get them; boil 10 to 20 
minutes, add one bag cornmeal, which 
make a nice stiff mash. I use half in 
the morning, mixing thoroughly, one-half 
bushel whole corn, one-half bushel wheat 
and one bushel of green stuff, the same 
in the afternoon. I would like to know 
what ration you advise for baby ducks. 
S. s. 
It is a common thing among duck 
raisers to have poor hatches in their 
eggs under many conditions. It is some¬ 
times found that certain makes of beef 
scrap produce much stronger germs than 
do other makes. Fresh meat and bone, 
cooked and ground, sectn to give the best 
results. The very best grade of beef 
scrap should lie used where this is not 
obtainable. The kind of green food has 
considerable to do with the strength of 
the germ, and nothing has been found 
better than clover or Alfalfa steamed. 
Of course the fault of the eggs rotting 
during the second and third weeks might 
very likely hare been with the incubator. 
but it might he due to the fact that 
your ducks laid over 160 eggs each in 
nine months, and were probably some¬ 
what lower in vitality (they could hardly 
help it) after several mouths of such 
continuous laying. The best hatching 
and brooding occurs when the breeding 
ducks have not been induced to lay much 
during the Fall and Winter, and are 
given water to swim in. A. L. C. 
Poor Laying. 
How could I make my hens lay more 
eggs? They have free access to a large 
rye field, and as they get to pick up 
silage, etc., at the barn (we keep a dairy) 
I also feed cane seed. I have about 
175 hens. How much ought I feed and 
what? I get but about a dozen eggs per 
day and my chickens are healthy. How 
many roosters ought I keep? R. s. G. 
One would infer from your letter that 
you are ietting your hens run at large, 
and are feeding but one kind of grain to 
supplement what they pick up. Sorghum 
seed, which I take to be the cane seed 
to which you refer, has an analysis which 
would indicate a feeding value practi¬ 
cally equivalent to corn. An exclusive 
diet of this would not supply the protein 
necessary for the production of eggs and 
you could hardly expect good Winter egg 
production without the addition of other 
grains and meat food in some form to the 
cane seed and green stuff which your 
hens are getting. If you can add such 
other grains as oats and wheat to their 
whole grain rations, and provide, in addi¬ 
tion, a mash of ground grain to which 
beef scrap or meat meal is added, or 
give plenty of skim-milk, you may reason¬ 
ably anticipate a better egg yield. Six 
vigorous males should be an ample supply 
for such a flock running on free range. 
M. B. D. 
Black on Duck’s Bill. 
Does the black on bills of White Pekin 
ducks disqualify them for show stock? 
Newburgh, N. Y. ,r. T. F. 
Black on the hill of a Pekin duck does 
not disqualify, but will cause a cut of 
one point if on the bean, or from one to 
one and a half if elsewhere on the bill. 
Black on the hill of a Pekin drake dis¬ 
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