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February 5, 1921 
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Richland, Pa., Nov. 27, 1920 
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Middleburg Center, Pa., Nov. 22, 1920 
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THE HENYARD 
Poor Color in Eggs and Feathers 
I raised 1G0 White Leghorn pullets in 
1919. and last year they laid nice white 
eggs. Last Spr”'V T set the eggs from 
these same pullc «ud raised 265 pullets, 
which lay mostly creamy eggs. I got two 
male birds from a poultryman with first- 
class stock, as I thought. When these 
160 pullets molted last Fall their new 
feathers came out partly mixed with cop¬ 
per or creamy feathers mingled together. 
Can von give me any idea of what is the 
trouble? What must I do to remedy my 
flock to get them in good plumage? They 
are nice and healthy. w. H. G. 
Maryland. 
Copper color in white fowls and a yel¬ 
low tint in their eggs is a result of an¬ 
cestral color that has been bred out of 
pure white fowls by careful selection. It 
will reappear in any flock to some ex¬ 
tent, and in some strains to a greater 
extent than in others. I believe that 
crossing two different strains of white 
fowls will bring about a greater reversion 
to yellow color in eggs and plumage than 
either would have shown if kept by itself. 
My own observation of the now wide¬ 
spread Barron strain of White Leghorns 
is that these English birds tint their eggs 
to a far greater extent than do most of 
our American-bred flocks. If I intro¬ 
duced this blood into my flock I should 
expect to get more tinted eggs than be¬ 
fore. , . 
New plumage, after molting, is apt to 
be creamy, particularly if the fowls have 
been heavily fed upon yellow corn. This 
bleaches out as it becomes older and need 
not give any concern. The only way to 
get chalk white eggs that I know of is to 
select only chalk white eggs for hatch¬ 
ing, thus cutting out the hens that lay 
tinted eggs from the breeding flock. Con¬ 
tinued selection along this line will im¬ 
prove the color of the eggs, but it should 
not be carried to such an extreme as to 
cause disregard of other qualities in fowls 
and eggs of more importance than tint ot 
plumage or product. M * B - u - 
Stoppage in Laying 
What is the trouble with our White 
Leghorn pullets? They were hatched 
Mav 16, and we got our first egg Octo¬ 
ber' 20. I never had pullets mature so 
rapidly or be in such seemingly fine con¬ 
dition’ when put in Winter quarters, 
which was on November 5. (Note that 
they commenced to lay before leaving 
their brooder house.) Previous to chang¬ 
ing them into Winter quarters for about a 
mouth we had been feeding a warm mash 
at noon of boiled potatoes and ground 
oats, and not wishing to continue the 
wet mash all Winter, changed November 
24 to the Cornell ration, plus 100 lbs. of 
mixed poultry feed. From possibly eight 
that were laving they have decreased un¬ 
til now we get but two eggs, and some¬ 
times one, or not any, and of the 112 
we started with, we have lost five since 
feeding the Cornell ration. They have 
plenty of room, are in two flocks, have 
fresh' water, shell, coal ashes and some 
kind of green feed, beets, apples or po¬ 
tato parings. The mask is fed from hop¬ 
pers ; is before them all the time. Their 
night and morning grain is whole corn, 
just now corn and oats in the litter. I he 
beef scrap in the mash was the best grade 
we could get, and it seems all right. 
Their house was cleaned and whitewashed 
and floors have been cleaned twice since 
moving them. Their combs are red and 
they look as if they should be laying. 
Sick ones are only sick two or three days 
before dving. Can you tell us where we 
fail? MRS. E. H. J. 
New York. 
Maturing pullets are more tempera¬ 
mental than motor cars, and their nervous 
systems more liable to disturbance of 
function than the electric wiring of a 
limousine. 1 speak from hearsay; I 
never owned a limousine. But maturing 
pullets, just, coming into laying, will not 
suffer any marked disturbance in their 
customary habits without _ protest. A 
change in quarters and radical changes 
in feeding are quite sufficient to put a 
stop to laying and to delay its resump¬ 
tion indefinitely. For this reason pullets 
should, if possible, be placed in their 
Winter quarters before laying has com¬ 
menced, and any changes in feeding that 
are contemplated should be made most 
gradually. Changing from wet to dry 
mash will cut down the amount of food 
consumed until the fowls have learned to 
like dry mash, and unaccustomed sur¬ 
roundings will have to become familiar 
before the nervous energy of the pullet 
can be devoted to interior matters. The 
Cornell ration is a good one, but I can 
toll little about the oue whose formula 
you give. Powdered milk and buttermilk 
lire splendid poultry foods, but nothing 
is said as to whether this mixture con¬ 
tains 1 oz. or 10 lbs. in 100. I seo^ no 
reason, either, for the addition of sodium 
bicarbonate (cooking soda) unless it is 
to sweeten some ingredient that might 
perhaps have better been left out. I have 
no doubt that your pullets will come into 
good production again, but I am afraid 
that you will have to wait awhile. 
M. B. D. 
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