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POULTRY
Inquiries from this Department should be addressed to D. Tancred, Kent, Wn.
The Best Time to Hatch
No question is asked m< re often.
And none is harder to answer. If
one could decide correctly every
season and get the chicks out at
exactly the right time there would be
nothing to it except ordering a larger
automobile to haul the profits to the
banks. Unfortunately there is not a
very goneral agreement as to the best
time, and the answer is not the same
every year anyhow, as weather condi
tions play an important part in the
matter. For example ; the cold and
drizzly summer of 1912 caused ex
tremely slow development, and only
in exceptional cases were the late
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The Ranch,
hatched chicks of any value £as
winter layers.
During the past ten years a greater
improvement has been effected in the
Leghorn than in any other breed of
poultry. Ttiey have been bred in
greatly increasing numbers and
strenuous efforts made to increase
their productiveness. As a con
sequence the period of growth has
been shortened perceptibly and the
pullets begin laying at au earlier age.
Breeders who, some eight or ten years
ago, made a point of hatching as
many chicks as possible in March,
now hatch in April. Many big egg
ranchers depend, wholly or on greater
part, on May hatched chicks. Quite
a number have tried hatching just a
little bit later every season and many
thousand chicks are hatched in June
for the commercial egg ranchers who
have found that it pays them best to
force pullets to early maturity, crowd
them as hard as possible in every
way for their eggs for one season, and
then replace them with a new lot. By
following this plan they saved a month
or two months food and work, no
small items in the case of a good
sized flock. But winter, by lingering
in the lap of the summer of 1912,
put on an awful crimp in the men
with the June hatched flocks.
There are exceptions to all rules.
The writer has heard from one man
with some 200 pullets, hatched about
June 4th, which were laying at a 30
per cent gait when six months and
four days old. Another man reports
slightly better results from a flock
hatched May 30th, and some small
broods hatched late in June have
shown good promise at six months of
age, but as a rule the June hatching
of 1912 was distinctly unprofitable.
Of course we may not experience such
another knockout year in a lifetime,
but the experience ia likely to throw
a scare into the exponents of late
hatching and curtail June hatching
considerably this coming season. I
know one fellow who won't raise any
more June pullets.
What then is the best time to hatch?
With the larger breeds the March
hatches should prove the rrost suc
cessful. The Rhode Island Red men
say that April hatched chicks of their
breed will make good winter layers.
April seems to be the month most
favored by the Leghorn raisers, and
that would seem to the writer to be
the safest time to hatch. Chicks of
that breed hatched between the 15th
of April and the Ist of May should
lay well in November if given good
»!iire. To try for earlier eggs you
must,l-uii the'risk of^the pullets molt
ing and the coiik qiicnt loss of all the
early winter esrgi. nut for this molt
ing proposition egg ranoblng would
in- ,i map. March batcbed pullets
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will be well developed by mid fall and
bat for the molt—Oh! that dreadfal
little "but"—how they would coin
the feed into dollars. But a large
percentage of them will molt —from
25 to 60 per cent is our own experience
—and so March hatching is certainly
a risk.
"200 EGG LIARS."
Oaly a few years ago nobody knew
positively how many eggs a hen laid
in a year. All sorts of ideas passed
current; some people had, or supposed
| they had, hens that laid every day.
One famous hen of olden time (Bill
Grimes' if I am not mistaken) has
had her record handed down to us in
immortal verse. This was the hen
I "that used to lay two eggs a day. On
Sundays she laid three." But a
i cloud of uncertainty obscured the
i whole subject, and it was not until
' some Yankee genius invented the trap
nest that positive knowledge of the
hen's capabilities was to be had.
Even then, and even to this day, this
knowledge was tinged with uncertain
ty due to the human tendency to ex
aggeration. Not all trap nest records
are accepted as correct, and perhaps
some of them should not be so accept
ed. A peculiarity of this trap nesting
proposition is that the experiment
station people, who are the self con
stituted authorities on all branches of
poultry raising, though they raise
mighty little poultry, refuse to con
sider seriously any gallinaceous per
formance occurring outside of an ex
periment station and have no great
respect for records made at any other
experiment station than their own
at that.
One of these asylums produces a
pullet laying, let us say, 250 eggs,
and that immediately becomes the
world's record for that sort of thing.
This, mind you, regardless of the fact
that at the same time another station
is busy holding down the world's
record with a 260 egg hen and still
another station is holding the same
record down with a 270 egg pf rformer.
And the prime joke nfl the whole sub
ject is that all these professional
gentlemen unite in outlawing the
claims of the poultry breeders who
furnished the experiment stations
with the stock that produced these
record makers.
There should be an ollicial body for
tho purpose of passing upon these
records, with tall powers to accept or
reject all records dunned I'm- the liens
of the United States. This organiza
tion would In- analogous to the Aineri-
8
can Athletic Association which pass
ed on all records made by American
athletics. Probably it would be found
necessary to draw the line sharply
between professional fowls and those
of undisputed amateur standing; and,
in that case, competition for money
prizes at the various state colleges and
experiment stations would, without
doubt, be discontinued and medals
hung up instead.
However, it has been demonstrated
to everybody's satisfaction that the
200 egg hen is a feet. Even Miller
Purvis admits its existence. And if
some people have some of these 200
egg bens there would seem to be no
reason why other people cannot bave
them. It is merely a question of
locating the 200 eggers and breeding
from them. Not all the progeny, by
a long sight, will be equal to the
parent birds, but they will be a great
improvement over the previous
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Several dozen vigorous, early hatch
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as exhibition stock because of poor
combs or ear lobes or high tails. Bred
from 200 egg record hens and are
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each, 116.00 per half do/en, $25.00 per
3ozen.
The Tancred Farms, Kent, Wash.
