POULTRY JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 73, 27 March 1895, Page 2

POULTRY JOTTINGS.

Let the ducks and geope be full feathered before killing.

Do.nob leb the young henß become too fab, or they will not lay well. Ib is very often tho caso that hens will stop laying when the lice geb bad. A tablespoonful of castor oil will frequently relieve severe cases of - crop-bound ' iv adult! fowls.

The objection to scattering wood ashes ovor tho floor of tho poultry house is thab they have a tendency to cause sore feet. Scaly legs may often be cured by simply wetting tho lege of bhe fowl affected occasionally with crude kerosene. When crude oil is nob to be had convenionbly heavy oil or grease can be mixed with kerosene, this bending bo sbay evaporation. Fowls should ab all times be regularly supplied wibh clean water, but this precaution is especially called for during the warm months of tho year. Even on farms bhe hens should have their drinking' troughs, and bhese should always be placed oub of reach of the sun. Otherwise bhoy aye forced to drink from the open drains and puddles of dirty water which are' generally cloße abhand. This practice is dangerous bo their health, and becomes bhe unsuspected cause of disease. Ducks us well us fowls may be injured in this manner, especially by drinking bhe tilbhy drainings from manure heaps.

The green bone meal, mado of green bone and meab ground into a fine meal, is one of bhe besb of the new feeds which tho inberesb in bhe fine fowls has broughb oub. Ib will pay every poultrynian to buy a green bone mill. With ib he can griud green bone and meab bo the consistency of sausage, making.a superb'strengthening food for chicks aud an unsurpassed egg food. Hens fed three times a week with this meal will have red combs and will ' shell oub' bo perfection.

A clean, warm, poultry house saves feed, bub many fail bo provide it. Health, and egg-production largely depend upon clean, warm, laying houses. The farmer who always keeps properly, hatches early chicks, also seldom lacks market, eggs, and poultry bhroughoub bhe year. Those who are unaccustomed bo bhe habits of ducks should remember bhab bhey are particularly prone bo laying away, especially if they are allowed to go out early in the morning. For this reason they should always be confined within limits until aboub ben or eleven o'clock each day, .They will generally have laid by bhem, bub ib is well to still maintain a watch on the ground over which they may stray. For ordinary diarrhoea put a teaspoonful of chalk mixture in a tablespoonful of boiled milk, wibh a pinch of cayenne pepper, and give this mixburo in bhe morning and ab night to the affected bird. Do nob allow other drink while ailing.

~. Fowls are in tho heighb of the moulb. ing season, and bbc losing of bheir feabhera is a . great drain on their system,

causing many to take disease and die. To prevent this breeders can, at fi spall expense, use the following, wjiiqh ia an ex: celienb bp«i|c, and will'carry bltem saf«ly bhrbugh bhe moulbr. Dissolve ono - half pound of sulphate of iron and one ounce of sulphuric acid in one gallon pf wftter, to fee given in propor-tipn of a teppoonfnl to a pint of water, or pub in soft feed. •