Poultry Notebooks : Poultry breeding notebook 1909-1910 [unlabelled]

Poultry Notebooks

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Laboratory notebook containing records for poultry breeding lines hatched in 1909 and 1910. The notebook begins with records for chicks which hatched between February and December 1909, labelled W 1-338 [pp.<a href='' onclick='store.loadPage();return false;'>1</a>-<a href='' onclick='store.loadPage();return false;'>156</a>]. Chicks hatched between April and May 1910 then begin on <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(316);return false;'>157r</a> with a new numbering sequence, W 1-144. Entries for each bird include notes on colour, comb, and other physical characteristics (e.g. abnormal digits), state of health, and date of death, etc. The record for 1909 birds W 10 <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(13);return false;'>[5v]</a>, W 109 <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(111);return false;'>[54v]</a>, W 176 <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(178);return false;'>[88r]</a> and W 213 <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(215);return false;'>[106v]</a> includes drawings of a shoulder joint and feet. A note for 1909 bird W 324 <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(309);return false;'>[153v]</a> states that it ‘swallowed a glass headed pin’. Entries are in two handwriting styles; the second may be Punnett's.</p>