Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 30, DeMotte, Jasper County, 13 June 1940 — NEGLECT OF PULLETS CHECKS GROWTH AND LOWERS EGG PROFITS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEGLECT OF PULLETS CHECKS GROWTH AND LOWERS EGG PROFITS

Growing Birds Should Have Good Care and Feed for Fast Development. Human beings, aren't we all? A new Daby Is born to Mr and Mrs Jim Smith and it becomes front page news I Mr and Mrs Jim Smith receive the congratulations of the whole community They are the mother and dad of a new piece of humanity! After a while, 'teen age comes for that new arrival and he is promptly forgotten He is only anothei boy among hundreds of other boys and jirls- -isn’t that also the way with the chicken business? A baby chick fluffy Uttle thing and so pretty, is the subject of almost adoration The best starting

I hese twe pullets are from a pen of birds that laid only $6.50 worth of eggs during October, November and December when egg prices are usually at their best

I hese two pullets are from another group of birds of the same hatch and out of the same flock as those In the top pen. They were started at the same time and on the same chick starting feed. But they produced $74.75 worth of eggs during Oc tober, November and December. What made the difference. See accompanying facts. feed -is none too good! Then come days more important . growing days the 'teen age of the chick. We forget So human are we! Those days when we should be giving our growing pullets the most attention, we too often forget. Fast Growth Necessary It takes feed . sensible feeding . . to hit that early fall egg market. “Hit and miss’’ methods won’t do the job. Pullets must be "grown” during those weeks after they have passed the baby chick stage. Many have been the experiments at the Purina Experimental Farm at Gray Summit, Missouri, proving this one point so well. Reciting those facts again and again would only be trite! But we will state one experiment. Two pens of chicks were set aside for experiment at the Purina Farm Both pens w r ere out of the same flock and the same hatch. Both were given the same starting mash Purina Startena, for six weeks Six weeks passed and there appeared no material difference between the two pens Beginning the seventh week that often critical week, like the seventh inning in baseball one of the pens was given a balanced growing mash Purina Growena. The other pen ol chicks was given the finest quality grains along with good alfalfa range Too. they got bugs and grasshoppers all they could pick up. Five months went by What a change! The pen fed on the balanced growing mash contained big. welldeveloped pullets .that appeared ready for heavy production. The birds in the other pen were l’i pounds lighter not ready for laying. Then starting the fifth month both pens were given Purina Layena. Difference of $68.25 Came October, November and December The pen of well-developed pullets laid 2,990 eggs, worth $74.75 at 30c per dozen The other pen of birds produced 260 eggs worth $6.50 What a difference $68.25 in favor of the well-developed pen That's the story of good feed during the growing period. The ’teen age, so to speak, when we are so apt to be neglectful but vastly the most important period., for money making in the chicken business!