POULTRY DISEASES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1933, Page 12

POULTRY DISEASES

If your pullets are not laying, well, and you have not looked for signs of colds, g-et busy at once. The advice of tho old days was to prevent or kill,

and whilst this is very sound,' it is often-a great pity to allow birds to become so seriously ill that they must be destroyed. Roup is indeed one of the worst diseases in New. Zealand, and to prevent its development colds must be cured quickly, if •■ you have not had sufficient experience you should call in an experienced poultrykeeper to give you' advice, or if you have a large number of birds remomber that the poultry instructors of the Department of Agriculture are at your service. . They cannot of course be everywhere at once, ■ and if you desire them to visit your farm, you must write in and ask them to call when ' Keep your birds healthy- by feeding them plenty of wholesome food, and by keeping their sheds and runs clean you will not bo troubled with losses from diseases. A weekly feed of chopped-up onions makes one of the best tonics known, and will keep away infection from intestinal .worms.