Five Hundred Questions and Answers on Poultry Raising

Excerpt from Five Hundred Questions and Answers on Poultry Raising: A Book of Practical Authentic Information in the Form of Questions and Answers on Various Subjects, as Feed and Care, Diseases, Eggs, Incubators Buildings, Etc., With a Chapter on Turkeys, Geese and Ducks No; onions do not affect the żavor of the eggs. Onions have been fed for weeks at a time along with other food, with no taint perceptible in the eggs. It would be just as rea sonable to say that chicks hatched from eggs laid by onion eating hens would smell and taste of the onion! A difference in food no doubt affects the color of the yolk; the eggs from hens fed on corn have a deeper and richer colored yolk than the eggs of hens fed strictly on nitrogenous foods. Fowls that have free range eat everything that a crow will eat. And yet their eggs do not taste of garbage or carrion. Onions are a healthful food for fowls, often better than medicine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.