Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 23 March 1933 — Blood-Tested and Culled Flocks for Best Chicks [ARTICLE]

Blood-Tested and Culled Flocks for Best Chicks

The most important question before the poultryman is where and what kind of baby chicks to buy, says C. F. Parrish, poultry extension specialist at North Carolina State college. “I am convinced, however, that the safe plan for the poultryman is to get his new chicks from hatcheries where the eggs used come from blood-tested and culled supply flocks.” Mr. Parrish says his reason for mak4 ing this recommendation comes from certain tests which have been Reports on 79,686 chicks produced by hatcheries where the eggs were produced by blood-tested birds show 5,151 chicks died from all causes during the first four weeks of life. This is a mortality of 6.4 per cent. Reports on 7,958 chicks produced from birds that had not been bloodtested show that 2,875 died from all causes during the first four weeks of life. This is a mortality of 36.1 per cent.