'Poultry Sleeping

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 39, 15 February 1929, Page 17

'Poultry Sleeping

By R. J. TERRY

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NEW CHUM.—Please conform to the rules by ending your name and address and I will reply. PAH ROAD.—The ducks would not starve ou the ration you were giving them. It may be that the meat meal is just a manure meal. Most meat meals are manufactured with a view of being used as manure. I should think that this is the cause of the trouble. If yon can get some skim milk curds, give them ;iu abundance of that, and a bos of bran, to which they can help themselves. Are you giving them plenty of both shell and grinding grit. I should c ay that the birds were certainly sick and not starved when they will not eat maize.

O.L.C.—The trouble is that if you build with iron, iu the winter time the room ■ is apt to sweat. It is warmer inside the house than outside, so the condensed water drips down either on the birds or on the floor of the house. Wood would be best, except possibly as a matter of cost. TAKAPL'XA.—When you are feeding bread which has been soaked in hot water only, add more bran to it than pollard, this will help balance the ration. Yon will not get many eggs if a large portion of the food is bread, nn'ess you add to the ration albumen in some form, or you may give milk curds. MA.VUKAU.—The fact of changing the rations of pulletg which have not really settled down to laying, is quite sufficient to put them off laying, although the same treatment is not likely to affect oliler hons. Anyhow &a the pullets laid toe parly the break will probably be beneficial in the long run.