Identifier: eggseggfarmsdevo00reli (find matches)
Title: Eggs and egg farms; devoted to increased egg production, contributed to by expert authorities and successful breeders, who furnish life-long experiences in the production of eggs, methods of feeding, market requirements, and desirable breeds for the farm and fancier ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Subjects: Poultry Eggs
Publisher: Quincy, Ill., The Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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made by nail-ing a lath orsimilar strip otwood to theend of a broomhandle. Bymaking a V-shaped rake ofthis kind, thedroppings canbe drawn for-ward into a bucket or basket and quickly removed. Freshearth, ashes and slacked lime are good materials to dust onthe droppings board to keep down the odor. Earth is a goodabsorbent, and one need look no farther for a suitable mate-rial for this purpose. The fences used by Mr. Wyckoff are built in the ordi-nary way with 2x4 stringers, to which are nailed 1x4 picketssharpened at one end. These pickets are six feet high andthe fence is the same height, Many will be surprised thatMr. Wyckcffs hens keep their place when separated by asimple low fence of this kind. As pullets they do not keeptheir places so well, but as hens, they become wonted andcause little trouble. It is not often that one of the hensleaves her yard, but if she does no damage is done exceptthat Mr. Wyckoff prefers to have an equal number in each 1 of Nest 1 > Preve Egg V.:>
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1 o. Houses and Yards in Use on Egg Farm .4 C II EGGS AND EGG FARMS. s33 yard and house. Pullets of all varieties of fowls cause farmore trouble than hens in the matter of flying fences. Theyare much lighter in weight and perhaps more giddy. Ashens they become decidedly heavier and more sedate in theirmanners. If difficulty should be experienced in confining the fowlsto their runs a single wire may be strung about six inchesabove the top of fence. It should be so small as to be nearly or quite invisible to the fowl from the ground. If she fliesfor the top of the fence, as they generally do, to alight uponit, the single wire will prove an obstacle to further attemptsto get out. ITse your fowls well. Do not excite them, and you willexperience little difficulty in this connection. It is theflighty, excitable layers that fly the fence on the slightestprovocation. POULTRY FOR PROFIT ON TEN ACRES. If we owned or controlled ten acres of land and proposed to gointo the poultry business to mak

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