TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 17

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

BROKEN EGG often finds both hard and soft-shelled eggs under the roost in the morning. The birds do not appear to be overtea. and are not haying any stimulants.—Good layers will drop a few esr-s during the night or early morning Vied as much green stuff as possible and a short stont oat at night. PUZZLED (Waitara) has a fowl from which the oviduct protrudes.—Wash nr£ up prominently against the feathers and is pecked by the other birds, with the result that inflammation and blood poisoning cause death of fowl. " puxouu KNOWLEDGE has a breeding- pen of Indian Kunners with two ' drakes. The drakes' Dilia are as sharp as cutting nliers If my correspondent thinks it necessary the Dills may be trimmed with a sharn knife or blunted with a file. POXSOXBY is la trouble with his poultry Briefly, the birds have all the symptoms oi cholera. Do not allow access to any drinking watar except one tabloid of corrosive sublimate dissolved in two quarts of water. It will be advisable to continue this for about ten days and resume again on the first recurrence of symptoms. X.Y.Z. has a number of ducks and also some fowls, the eggs from which are eettin" gradually smaller; in fact, many are lay" ing eggs the size of pigeons' eggs without any yolk.—lt is a fairly common occurrence for a bird to lay a small egg without a yolk at the end of the laying = season but when it becomes a common occurrence' as in the case of my correspondent the feeding is at faul. The yolk is largely comprised of fat or oil, and is developed from the surplus fats over and above the bodily requirements of the bird In this case decrease green feeding and "ive a little maize or even a small quantity of fat scraps. J