Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1907 — Selecting Eggs For Hatching. [ARTICLE]

Selecting Eggs For Hatching.

One should be as careful In selecting eggs for hatching as In selecting parent stock. Choose medium to large eggs, as nearly perfect in shape and color as possible. Uniformly colored eggs look much better than a mixed lot and will usually sell better. Some select the short, round eggs, believing these will produce a large percentage of pullets, but the shape of the eggs has nothing to do with the sex of the chick. Continuous selection of the roundest eggs will gradually produce a strain of hens that will lay round eggs of imperfect shape.