Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1916 — Rhode Island Reds. [ARTICLE]

Rhode Island Reds.

We have been engaged in the poultry business in a small way for a number of years and so will now give my reasons for preferring Rhode Island Reds: 1. They are a very large breed and also very easy to keep. 2. They lay well all the year round, with very little care and food during the winter months. We have a. flock of about 50 layers and get on an average «round 30 eggs a day the entire year. 3. They are good sitters, seldom leaving the nest when set properly. 4. The young chickens are of a good size and plump; and also healthy, being ready to eat or market in about ten or twelve weeks after hatching. 5. They are splendid foragers, going a reasonable distance out in the fields in search of bugs and other insects for the young chicks. We have a good winter house for the flock, and during the winter feed one square meal a day or either corn, wheat or oats, all of which are fine egg producers. Never give fowls icecold water. In cold weather always give them all the water they will drink about 5 the middle of the day, but this should have the chill taken from it by adding a little warm water.