Differ In
Hens.
Drinking Traits,
Scientist Finds
“Thirsty” is a White Leg
horn chicken who can drink
her own weight in water ev
ery day.
“Thirsty” is one of a train
of chickens discovered to
have a genetically-controlled
thirst for water.
The trait which "Thirsty”
owns may be a boon for poul-
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tryroen who have been ll*bt-
Ing a clean-up problem In the
nation’s chicken coops.
"Thirsty” and her genetic
strain of parched chickens
was identified by Dr. Edward
0. Buss, associate professor
of poultry science at The
Pennsylvania State Univer
sity. Buss has been toying
with the problem for nine
years.
Thirsty birds may have al
ways been generally mixed in
with the dry strain in poultry
farms, and were simply not
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PARADISE, PA.
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MA. iFACTURERS of hornco feeds
distinguished before, Bu» ex
plained. Nevertheless, they
have been causing a great
deal of trouble in the care
of poultry.
The “normal” dry strain
drinks about twice as much
water in weight as it eats in
food, he said.
Tho wet strain drinks up
to eight, times ut< much wa
ter us the dry strain, Buss
found, e\«m though they
eat, the sumo amount of
I odd. Tlie excess wilder lH
simply wasted as watery
droppings on the henhouse
floor. This Is especially
troublesome now that most
birds are housed in wire
cages.
Genetic characteristics like
those which “Thirsty” has
are usually caused by one or
two genes which are differ
ent from “normal” birds,
Buss pointed out. The trait
can be bred into or out of
stocks of birds.
Since the trait does not
seem to. affect any other char
acteristic (it appears unre
lated to egg production or
other teatures), it might be
put to good use, Buss said.
Until recently, poultrymen
were concerned with the
problem of getting rid of
watery droppings because
“they were a mess to clean
Helen Rowe
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 1, 1966—5
up". But recently, chicken
raisers have found that wa
tery droppings are easier to
wash from the cagehouse
than dry feces.
Whether “Thirsty” and her
kind will become dominant
or be bred out of the poul
try stocks will depend on
which way poultiymen view
the problem, Buss pointed
out At least, he said, now
they will ha\e a choice.
The work with "Thirsty”
is only part of a large genetic
study which Buss is conduct
ing on the metabolism of
chickens. “Thirsty” studies
are being paid tor in part
by Hy-Line Poultry Farms,
Des Moines, lowa, America’s
largest producers of stock
chickens for poultry farms.
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NEW YORK Factories
in the United States were
safer than ever in 1964, ac
cording to the Insurance In
formation Institute, as the
rate of industrial fatalities
dropped to an all-time low of
21 per IOO.OPO workers. The
worst year in the past quar
ter century was 1940, when
the rate was 35 S per 100,000.
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from hog cholera-free States.
The utnucciiiated hows
must not come in contact
with hows from States of un
like status prior to or dur
ing shipment and they must
be tran>-portPd in one u
hide in one continuous move
ment Health cei tifl'cates and
identification will still be re
quired under the amend
ments
States immediately aflected
by the amendments are Ver
mont and Nevada, which are
hog-cholera tree, and Idaho,
Montant, Oregon, Utah, Wash
ington, Wyoming, and Alas
k'a, now in Phase IV De
tails on all shipping rules
c'an be obtained from state
or federal animal disease
control officials.
Dr. G. H. Wise, in charge
of hog cholera eradication
work for USDA’s Agricultur
al Research Service, points
out that the changes do
avv’ay with restrictions that
become unnecessary as the
disease is eradicated. This
lets livestock producers reap
the benefits of eliminating'
the disease in their states ”
he said. “Since hog cholera
is .not known bo exist in
states th'at have reached
Phase IV, shipment of un
vaecinated hogs from these
states shoui’d not constitute a
threat to the health of other
pigs ”
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