UTILITY POULTRY CLUB.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16946, 22 September 1920, Page 8

UTILITY POULTRY CLUB.

j At '.ho educational meeting' o£ tie New j Zealand Utility Poultry Club- last evening, Mr W. F. Herbert presided. Mes3rs '»». | A. Goo and W. Ward gun;© addresses or. tho brooding atid rearing of chiikeas, and Mr W. T. Green spoko on the rearing cf ducklings. Mr Gee said lie favoured a heated brooder. It wa3 a mistake to take chickcns away from, the incubator too soon, Mid they should | be kept therein for at lenst 24 hours after ; incubation. The incubator should bo 3:c-pt for a time at a temperature of S5 decrees, which should then be gradually reduced. favoured oatmeal and eggs as food for chickens when young - , and commercial cl ick fri- 1 . when they 'wro three weeks o'd. This chick feed diet was best when varied '-vita mash and green fowl, particula'-ly chopped spring eniens. Chickens should always be kept a little hungry, for in his opinion more were- killed by over-feodinjr tfain by imder-feerlir.g. He p.lirays k«pt bran before his chickens, «r.d con~id<Tod that loe-cating was greatly eliminated Lr do:;i™ so. The speajfcrs answered reveral questions, nrsd were thanked for their instructive addressee. . •