Illumination and Late Hatched Pullets

Abstract

Last year at the Guelph meeting I had my first good taste of illumination and liked it to the last drop. At that time I remember there was some discussion regarding what illumination would do for the late hatched pullets. At that time I had hatched five different ages of leghorn pullets for the purpose of a demonstration as to the proper or most desirable time of hatching for egg production. It was therefore an easy matter to divide these pullets into two lots and provide electric lights for one and allow the other to get along as best it could without.

The pullets were therefore divided into two pens A. and B. and in each pen there were eight pullets from each of five different hatches but all hatched from eggs produced by the same pen. The hatching dates were for lot 1, March first, lot 2, March 25, . . .