1,298 EGGS IN 308 DAYS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4619, 31 October 1923, Page 2

1,298 EGGS IN 308 DAYS.

DUCK TEST BECOBD. Some remarkable egg-laying records have been made in the section of the Utility Duck Test taking place on the London and North-Eastern Railway Farm at Bentley, Suffolk, in which the Daily Mail, is giving a silver cup for the winning pen. This section is the one in which, ducks are being tested in confined spaces—as the small owner would keep them in his garden. The birds are accommodated five together in small wire netting pens, of which there are. 32. The expert- ■ ment has taught some useful lessons and has shown that small flocks so confined will lay even better than birds in a large field on free range. Tne average production in the small pens to date is just 20 eggs per bird greater than in the largs<s flocks of 265 birds fed and managed in the same way in an adjoining field. The leading pen of five ducks has produced in 308 days 1,298 eggs—a wonderful average of 259 eggs per bird. The ducks are of the Khaki . Campbell breed and are the property of Mr Oscar Brown, of Appleby, Lincolnshire.