POULTRY.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6976, 15 February 1918, Page 3

POULTRY.

Hints Fpr Breeders.

Preserve egg 3 for winter use. Provide shade for these hot days. Green food should be given daily. Now is the time to clean up aud disinfect poultry houses. Separate the hons from the walos after the brooding season.

Naturally it is more difficult to raise a pullot iv a confined or small run than on free range, but, fortunately, whatever difficulty thora may bo can be overcome.

Always keep bsforo the pullet cool, fresh water, jjrit, sholl-furmiug materials, and charcoal. Granulated cha eoulj is invaluable, e?pecia'l y for correcting errors that may itiourevtently occur iv feeding. Give also green feed iv some form. Where a pullet doea nut lay a I all, the cmbijo eggs ere found full uf blood, s rupture of some kii'd having taken placa.aiid Ibut is rr.ost tioqutjntly caused by the abuse of stimulants, such as meat, given to force la.viiig at too early an age. Up to the age of four moatss or thereabouts—the time varying according to the cla?3 of fowl, er/J differing also in pullets tne game br?ed—tbe system is chiefly cor.cenied with bone, tissue and feather growth, but afterwards it is mainly concentrated on the cvsries, and in six or eight weeks, under favourable conditions, the first egg is matured.