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Rearing Vigorous Pullets 
The Factor That Determines Winter Egg Yield 
T he poultryman has By CRAIG 
changed the old say¬ 
ing of “Don’t count your chickens be¬ 
fore they are hatched” to “Don’t count 
your pullets until they are in the laying 
house.” But to go ^ven farther, the 
poultrymen are realizing that the sum¬ 
mer care of young stock is often the 
cause of the pullets going into a mid¬ 
winter molt. A pullet that is properly 
finished should have a large frame 
carrying a surplus of flesh when it is 
put into the laying house in the fall. 
This reserve of flesh may be likened to 
the spare parts of a machine, without 
which no car can run very far without 
being wrecked. A pullet in this con¬ 
dition can stand up under illumination 
in the winter and is far less apt to 
break down with disease. The size of 
the egg will increase more rapidly and 
will soon leave the classification of 
pullets’ eggs. Such a bird has consti¬ 
tutional vigor which can only be ob¬ 
tained by proper management during 
the summer. 
No Secret Systems 
I N reviewing the successes enjoyed 
by many of our large breeders you 
will find that none of them have any 
particular secret system. Rather they 
observe several broad principals and 
combine common sense to tie them up 
to their particular conditions. The 
object of this article' will be to cover 
points of interest concerning range 
management that have been proven on 
successful commercial plants. 
In these days of high feed prices 
everyone knows the value of culling 
our hens strictly, but we are only just 
coming to realize that our culling 
should start with the young stock. 
This should be done at the time when 
they are shifted from the brooder to 
the range. They are usually from six 
to ten weeks of age, depending upon 
the season when they were hatched. 
They are easily picked out, but so many 
times they are left with the thought 
that they would catch up. While some 
of these birds do become less notice¬ 
able, nevertheless these are the birds 
that for some reason never do start to 
lay until spring when eggs are cheap. 
If these birds were marked you 
would also find that they were the same 
birds, that stopped laying in early 
summer. It certainly pays to put these 
under-sized, slow-developing pullets in 
with the birds that are to be sold as 
broilers. If they are«not worth includ¬ 
ing in this lot, it is cheaper to kill 
them than to carry them at a continual 
loss. It is better to have fewer birds 
on rang'e under the best conditions pos¬ 
sible and in this way get pullets that 
are capable of making a uniform rate 
of growth. In poultry even more than 
in anything else it is the quality and 
not the quantity that pays. 
From Brooder to Range 
W HERE chicks are raised in brood¬ 
ers the problem of transferring 
them to unheated quarters is a very im¬ 
portant one. When this takes place it 
depends on the time of year and the pre¬ 
vailing weather conditions. Under 
ordinary conditions the heat should be 
decreased gradually. From the third 
week on, the temperature is lowered so 
that when the sixth • week comes little 
if any heat is needed. When a cold 
spell comes heat must be increased to 
prevent crowding and piling up. Chicks 
should be without heat in their brood¬ 
ers for a week before being transferred. 
Make the transfer on a bright warm 
day, preferably in the morning so that 
the birds may become accustomed to 
their new quarters before night. 
The house in which the birds are 
placed must conform with several con¬ 
ditions if a vigorous growth is to be 
maintained. Perhaps the most import¬ 
ant feature is to avoid overcrowding. 
When the birds are put out weighing 
a pound the house does not seem too 
full, but as their size doubles and trebles 
the house often becomes too crowded. 
Towards the end of the season 75 birds 
are enough for a six by eight-foot 
colony house. There should be plenty 
of perch room and every effort should 
be made to get them off the floor as 
soon as possible. 
Summer time .should be a vacation 
SANFORD time for the pullets. 
They should have 
every opportunity to enjoy the fresh 
air. Ventilation is more necessary in 
the case of poultry than other farm 
animals since a large amount of mois¬ 
ture is carried out by the breath. The 
arrangement of the house should be 
made with this in mind. Some breeders 
have the entire four sides of the upper 
pai’t of the house in curtains. The.se 
are removed in the summer. The perch¬ 
es are started quite low and are gradu¬ 
ally raised as the season advances. If 
the houses are faced towards the south 
they are automatically drying and dis¬ 
infecting themselves throughout the 
day. . • 
Since sunlight is the very cheapest 
disinfectant that we have, it certainly 
ought to be used. It is not necessary 
to have a deep litter in a colony house. 
There should, however, be enough to 
cover the floor. The remaining step in 
sanitation, is to paint the perches with 
a heavy coal tar product such as car- 
bolineum. This should be done before 
the birds are placed in the house. This 
is a very effective remedy for red mites, 
a blood sucking inseqt that invade the 
birds at night and after filling them¬ 
selves up with blood, retire into cracks 
around the perches. 
We now come to the question of the 
range itself. There should be an 
abundance of green succulent food. It 
is not enough to give them the run of 
a packed ground that has some dried 
grass. Alfalfa or red clover make the 
best range cover but any orchard or 
pasture will be satisfactory. The range 
should be large enough to provide 
plenty of exercise. It is really sur¬ 
prising to compare the difference be¬ 
tween two lots of birds, one of which 
has been on range ten days longer 
than the other. There is some element 
that they get that we have been un¬ 
able to substitute when birds are not 
on the ground. 
Water—An All Important Factor 
W ATER is an all important factor in 
chick growth during the summer. 
It should always be available and placed 
in the shade where it will keep cool. 
The birds also need some protection 
from the mid-day sun. If there is no 
natural shade from trees or bushes a 
few rows of field corn will serve the 
purpose. 
Dry mash should be supplied in hop¬ 
pers that will protect it from the 
weather. A good standard growing 
mash consists of 200 pounds wheat 
bran, 100 pounds each of corn meal, 
wheat middlings, heavy ground oats, 
and either meat scrap or some driqd 
milk product.. 
Finally comes the finishing off of 
the pullets. It must be remembered 
that grain is fed to keep up the body 
weight and that mash is the feed that 
gives the eggs. A bird that does not 
keep up its body weight will go out of 
production until it has built up its 
weight again. For this reason pullets 
should not be pushed into production, 
but rather fed so that when they start 
laying they have a surplus of flesh that 
will help to carry them through the 
winter. 
This is best done by cutting out 
the mash from the birds on range for 
five or six weeks prior to the time they 
are put in the laying house. This will 
build up their bodies and retard their 
sexual development. Grain is fed 
three times daily during this period 
giving them all they will ulean up. 
Some breeders merely take all the high 
protein feeds out of the mash instead 
of taking the mash away entirely. 
. Keep the Birds Gi>owing 
ON’T let the birds stay out in the 
trees too late in the fall. At this 
time a cold snap often comes accom¬ 
panied with dampness and the birds are 
brought into the houses with colds. If 
this happens all the benefit of proper 
management during the summer is lost 
and the birds never seem to entirely 
come around again until quite late in 
the year. 
It is good to keep in mind a standard 
rate of gi’owth and to check up on your 
birds as you go along to see if they 
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