Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — Disease Checks Egg Laying. [ARTICLE]

Disease Checks Egg Laying.

I bought 25 pullets which had been exposed to contagious diseases. This was unknown to me at the time, but I have found out since. When the birds came in they looked perfectly healthy, but after they were here two weeks I noticed some developing chickenpox, and we have had a battle royal with two pens for some time. There are some Individual hens in the pens that laid probably 18 eggs a month, but there are tome that have not laid | any eggs. They lay for a time and then they get a touch of a disease add I Stop. ■