Abstract
Abstract IT is generally believed that pullets are more profitable than hens for the production of market eggs. The increased yield from pullets during the season of high egg prices probably accounts for this opinion. A common practice is to keep two-thirds pullets and one-third hens. The hens are kept principally to reproduce the flock during the spring. The rearing of chicks to a productive age is expensive, however, and the depreciation in market value the first year is large. If hens could be caused to produce profitably more fall eggs in their second and later laying years, a larger percentage could be kept and a material saving made. The use of artificial light, confinement of the laying flock, and the hopper feeding of both scratch grain and dry mash have been shown to have some value in stimulating fall production for both hens and pullets. Allen (1927), Atwood (1928), Brody, . . .
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