CHARCOAL AND LIME FOR POULTRY.
These two articles play a very important part in the management of fowls ; whether bred in a fancier's yard or on a farm. Charcoal should be liberally fed, for one on thing ie more conducive to health than is this. It should be broken in small lumps and put where the fowls can get at it, and they will eat it with great relish. We have seen it fed to pigs with the very best results, and those which were treated to it were never troubled with disease or sickness, while neighbouring ones were. This helps to prove its value, not only for swine, but for fowls. Where the birds are kept in confinement, it is a very good plan to keep a small trough in a sheltered place, full of suiali bits of fresh charcoal, and the fowls will soon learn to help themselves. The value of lime in the form of whitewash is well known, and those who use it liberally are the ones to keep their flocks healthy and cleanly. To render the whitewash more effective in dislodging, driving away, or destroying lice and other parasitic nuisances, the addition of a little carbolic acid is invaluable, for scarcely anything alse seems to be more distasteful to the vermin. Airslaked lime should be occasionally scattered over the floor of the chicken-house, to remove unpleasant and unhealthy odours; while a little of it should be scattered around the yards and runs, for material for egg shells. Oyster-shell lime is the best for this purpose.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3118, 25 June 1881, Page 4
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260CHARCOAL AND LIME FOR POULTRY. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3118, 25 June 1881, Page 4
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