Identifier: successfulpoultr00reli (find matches)
Title: Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: Quincy, Ill. : Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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DER OF BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS. BUFF ANDPARTRIDGE COCHINS A. 33. Seventy-five in a house 8 by 16 until good fryingsize, and then after culling, 40 to 50, not exceeding 50. A. 35. Yes, they worry the pullets all the time and donot do as well themselves. A. 36. We have pens for cockerels entirely away fromhens or pullets. They keep much more quiet and do muchbetter. OTTO O. WILD, Benton Harbor, Mich. WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST Twenty to 30 in piano boxes on unlimited or-Fifty in my breeding houses 10 by 18, unlimited 34. When ever cockerels show full sexual develop- A. 33.chard rangerange. Ament. A. 35. Cockerels are yarded together in flocks of 15 to20 when taken from general run. They are separated againwhen any evidence of quarreling starts. The fighters go first. A. 36. I have a house in which coops 3 by 4 feet areranged along the wall in tiers. Each cockerel gets one of thesecompartments if worthy of such care. Cheaper birds are yardedwith a vigorous cock who keeps them well in hand.
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A SUCCESSFUL HATCH A. 34. I do not separate at all, as I sell breeding stock.My male birds are nice this way. Of course I do not get quiteso many eggs, but the yards are cleaned up by March. A. 35. If you separate the sexes you will of necessityhave to separate the cockerels if you wish to keep their plumagenice, as they pull each other to pieces. A. 36. When I separate the cockerels I have small pens3 by 5 feet in a large building. A. 37. Same as for adult stock, using fine ground beefmeal in mash. A. 3S. Mash in troughs. Cracked grains in plenty oflitter. Feed three times daily. J. M. WILLIAMS, No. Adams, Mich. SINGLE AND ROSE-COMB BUFF ORPINGTON SPECIALIST A. 33. Twenty-five we find do much better than 50together. The more we can divide them the better we like it. A. 37. Cracked corn, wheat, barley and hulled or clippedoats, supplemented by mixed and ground grains. Beef scrapor cut bone also. A. 38. Dry grains in hoppers. Ground grains and meatrations in mash at noon. Being on unli

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