POULTRY KEEPING

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19715, 4 September 1929, Page 8

POULTRY KEEPING

4. HI( r F.OV AND <"AGE BIRDS. ; . -- * ---:*'-» 1 i". - •'l* ■ * „ . , h ; m ... - ---7 W*fir. -~ T !..».'•; w:.') >i : '-.i"-"- "Tirre dti'A" .i."2 t - r 1 - . -■-■ ;> ai'l'i .Vr>W Y-»T 3!;l*A - .;,-..-1 .•:.«. tL.it ;tr. :'.-. for to* r:^i- . .ig '■ ■ :v. ;;---'"i-r* ec-onM -»r-. -mber *..- -- =;.•, .; j.."'"-.;.-m, r;r: r-.'.-'ViiTabie f .-- ; . -;-...* ',:.■■-:■; r.'r. " ■*'..: tiitd rd'-nty r .■-;,'.. ari-i -xyr--: •- <.r.-i rr.o-t 0* their u. -... *-f ■.'. - tahi ■•. 1- ''".v ."1 V. •.',;i.,, 1 "-v., t.:a" he i rs.., ■.. . ;>» waere !<>■.,•'- . r.;-i<t ■'-;■■■■ .<>■:,?. *•',.- r.r.---d;ng s^'iabi. ;-: r •. ■ f ,-..■.■!-! £.->:■ t'<-1 has much to -':-, .«.-'; •'. ::.';.O-3r of the *?;?«. Or.-.-c-i.'i *■.: --n i",:.,.r the egg fay feeding. I>;.".'•; *-_-.-i ,;.--.- nit ?o rank as the 7 used *-.; "r - r'-.-it 1* the culture c.f dn*-:* i.'j« i---n a ehange ia feeding, *.'..hi<*h 4.'. i-i ,i «''»;eter egg. T art<-■;- ■> an 1 guinea fowis do best on a g-<">d nri'-i --.-v-re there if plenty '■£ | she.tor r.i, i -,t; ;-' r i'erit and ias«eM. «'i.j.ri-.» r'o"-!i at jo require a good "walk"' »f the;-- ar* to he kept hard in feather. The hreeding s*ca and young S eaiikrrn aho do 'etter ou a good range, where the youngsters thrive and put on j weight ouici-cly. A ploughed Se!d c: ia very flne and the birds clean the land of insert p*-na and seeds of we-'d*. 7 ro p-r r-r.t. '*-',d- ; iv f --r r:I mixed in th* ma-ih 'm-tli's grea*!/ in the raising rof ehi'-'■:.:•:,-., r:r:d it ii ai.*o good for adult h.rd-. Fiii* a lot, of cod-liver oiJ ! to .'.iyi. r berw would cause the I fcjjg* to t.'j«rfr fishy. A lot of onions in j toe f-:> : --i wiit also 6a,'. oar it and even 1 a stronj; diainff-«*.tant in the fowlhouse ] wii! flavour the eggs. j Mr Fred. Chambers, secretary of the United Pigeon FaneiTs' Club, has %lr&t>\i brtd Uioro dean legged black Tamblen than all last season. Hid lock with Sit is not ao good. Mr Chambers has pigeons ttvo pens j of White H'yandottes, a pen of Golden Pencilled Fiaraburgs, and a few Old English Game. * A -.v.--It-known English fancier and naturalist and journalist concluded that the eajg capacity of a hen was 500 or 600 egiri. Two p*;ns to raj knowledge have gone some hundreds better than his figures, and more recent investigations at Maine Experimental Station •bowed that a pallet at maturity had up to 3000 elemental eggi which may be developed.

I mst a fancier the other day who told mir he had, sent over to Belguim for Homing pigeons. Some of the Canary fanciers have already paired np but it is safer to mate nearer th** end of this month

Large eggj ran not be bred from pallet* bred from hem that laid snuJl . jgt, or from weedy hens. The weedy hen may be more prolific than the robust hen but the weedy hens offspring will have a greater mortality. At the tame time breeding from hens that lav large eggs it not always a guarantee that the pullets from the large egg<» will produce large eggs. The Rial* nird is also an interesting factor. He must be bred from hens that lay large egg*. A friend of the writer ha* h-nil*: op a large egg strata which lays eggs nearer 3 on nee a than 2 ounces. He does a good business but gets bo more for his targe eggs than for his two ounce one*. Bat doubtless it costs him more for food. rt l>ead in •belt" i* a fanciers' term for chickens when they die in the shell. Borne time a the chick is partly formed, gome turn * wholly so,- indeed, more often the i'i,' has chipped and the head •xposfej to view. Such ebiek* are often successfully landed bit more often not. A little warm milk in the head will •mist to get the rhi'-k out withoat bleeding. The mud incubators, which the Egyptian* have used for many centuries with snecesA, are handled by families for generations. The people need no thermometers, but. are educated to the business by long practiee. Chopped straw and eamel dung are bnmed for th<- heat, and duck, geese, and turkey *ggs, at well as hen eggs are incubated together. As many as 40,000 chicks have been turned out st one hitching in the mud ovens, says Mohammed Axkar Hey, one of the government official*. Mr Frank B. Bust, the well-known breeder and judge of OH English , Game, who has not been exhibiting for a year or two, imforms me that he has got tome of the best stock he has ever had, and wilt doubtless be cm hand nt next season'* sh''W*.

Pigron href!']f:ri usually have th f, ir r«*t, So.x<- h on .*ft••!'.(-4 or in borfs. This means that th«*ro will be a lafik of nif.ittur.' for the eggs in hot weather. This may l" Rot over Viy puttin;; water in tho hoxea where the eggs ire or by letting thy birds have a bath fvrt day. Bhort »<» : ak*"l parents as a nil*-. Tipplers or common TnifhlcM ruakt: jjf'O'l nurses. But. in all varities th«r<' arc good and bad mir-ii n\ the '-an make enre «t gm.fi on-i in etiursc of tirnfc Ivy seating tht- betf. First j-rile should be 2 ounces or over, tin- mli'-H .-Ju'-oth and strong and Mi»wa<thi:d. Washing deatroye keepintr qualities and takes the bloom off the shell. "With that off an egg never looks m well. The meat and flavour of an egg is influenced by food, etc., hut, there is nothing in the common notion that brown shelled eggs are hetb-r th;in white «h<'l!cd. Where fowls are running on a farm at libertv the eggs may be fomid a little stale, henee the layers are best kept in a house near the dwelling house. If fowls are allowed liberty near the dwelling house they will for ever be at the door, and the honse wife will waste a lot of time, and perhaps lose her temper shooing them off. Beaid.-M farm getting stale through not bein ■* gathered often or at least twice a week, they often are badly used on the way to market. Moreover one often sees eggs, in shop windows and a hot sun on them. That will prevent eggs keeping well in a pantry. The way to get good fresh eggs, and clean eg::'* is '*' furnish clean nests, gather t\\i. e :i wok or oftener, keep in a eool ,'ind dry place, and, after the breeding \- o\er, rake ;iw:iy the male birds. "Sue.-. I'ouhry Farming is the title of a little book I have received from the Shell Company of New Zealand, Liu.ited. The book is well printed and illustrated, and the field of poultry* .Mil'ore well and concisely covered by the author, who is undoubted I.- ' well up in his subject. Ponltrv keepers may obtain copies free by applying to the company.