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Watertown Republican
Watertown, Jefferson County, Dodge County, Wisconsin
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Vermont farming advice on ensuring year-round fresh eggs by breeding winter-laying hens, providing varied feed like pounded bone, warm roosts, and using early-hatched pullets during moulting seasons.
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The way to have fresh eggs at all seasons of the year, and the only way I know of, is to have a breed of hens that will lay in the winter as well as in the summer. In order to accomplish this, 1st. Get the hens. 2d. Keep them well on a variety of food-pounded bone in the winter to take place of the gravel in the summer. 3d. Give them warm roosting places; a hen poor, cold and half frozen every night, will not lay the next day. 4th. Hatch early pullets to lay in the fall, while old hens are moulting, as they will stop laying for a few days during this process, and keep most pullets over winter, as they will lay more eggs the first year than the second, and so on. There is scarce a day in the whole year that I do not bring fresh eggs from the barn to the house.-Vermont, in Country Gentleman.
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The way to have fresh eggs at all seasons of the year is to have a breed of hens that will lay in the winter as well as in the summer. Steps include: 1st, get the hens; 2d, keep them well on a variety of food including pounded bone in winter; 3d, give them warm roosting places; 4th, hatch early pullets to lay in the fall while old hens are moulting, and keep most pullets over winter as they lay more the first year. There is scarce a day in the whole year without fresh eggs from the barn.