POULTRY NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15520, 30 January 1914, Page 11

POULTRY NOTES.

' 0F diaerhcea ' [! "1 '> iithea ca ses of * irrll<Kft are seen 50* *r$ birds. To treat this th ° UPflW'' y bo removed by a dose of • «J-'° 'f 0 {olloWC J bv one of salad oil, ' ' ejff* 0,1 . 0 cure it' the birds should each $t^W ed tcaspoonful of powdered balf a tcarpoonful of ground (tisf* 1 * .... to this tr« give a quarter ! # Spoonful of roup powder • few of » Swards to each .'dull bird. We hoc" 1 'known the remedy fail yet, and i' v#tC rv seldom it. has to bo repeated, ■ it "To fowls oro very much cut of un -When (heir #rP" tlU,fl are good, the diet- " B)0U ](l bo mixed ill the soft Ct»s' , j/'lliev are not sating, some pills fetmade, iwng — g«'d tlour. iWBP, „,t v when 1,10 birds are mf /v'scntry sets in. In this case, five drops of I'hlorodyno for & |i« ib ? U o en for » ««*• It is better M ,n a nicef of l..ii suaar-a teafej tepid water 511011111 be given have diarrlnEa it generally ti in ' Wl>lk s,:,to -, The y re " S» w ® '» ftn ]v a tome. but also a ftimu- *« "i'he roup powder will bo found Wj the best things to tfet, the fowls' & [• u p again. For a few days tho jgj pho'lW not liavo much corn, but S bread and milk, or nutritious soft *<t» ml Kf be taken over feeding the *2" For breakfwt they should have \Lh soft food as they will clear up i 'iSilv-makinp this Just crumbly, and irmtin' account, sticky. Hmis« scraps :S Sod middling with t.he addition of 4S«t meal, which has been previously f'y.j should be $iven a* the principal W V and vsried with ground wits oneiK' and biscuit-meal two-thirds once or £ , week, juft to keep the birds '' S well.

feeding FOR ET.GS. In feeding th<' fowls for rggs the quantity f th*food must be nsl ' ierori - au< l those who look■ rt every penny the - v , 6pond °" their fowls' food are not. in the way of tin, their fowls pay ill all, for unless S:,S i.fun»i'J,..W bird, ,1„, [re quit® Mujle to give tho returns they „iVrwina would do. First of all ll 'o birtis lml?t ,lavo SUffifipnt cood food given to them to maintain them in health and good condition,_ and then to make the eggs, and this is just, tbi point which so many people who are fodifblv eoomic.il in their feeding lose licit, of. It 'ho fowls possess first of ill tha making machinery, i.e., laying dualities, which they own by th© law of heredity—and they are fed on egg-forming food— they cannot lie kept back from lavinS. and these matters require the .whtful consideration of poultry-keepers inn extent realised by few. For the prain to produ. e eggs on, give tfo best wheat five nights a week, and M (preferably "clipped," but always itoot) for the other two nights when the Breather ; 3 not cold, and when it is., then jive them maire for these two nights in i)!aco of the eats.

.WELL-BALANCED RATIONS. Birds much more likely to overeat iieniseivfs en an exclusively corn diet Item if they are on a properly balanced ration. The system is rot satisfied with Ik dements furnished, and to supply the Mistiar need they eat to excess, so that fey Ret far too much of the fat-producing part and 100 little of the muscle and eggfcnsinjf elements. Hens in this condition often jet feiKik -down tehind. There is i large fatty deposit in the abdomen, ■ «!uth bulftf and drags down the skin j sad iausdes, giving a most unsightly j iippuranM. It is better to market these at osff, and not attempt to cure, as such i bird a of. little value any more for eggproducing. Tile laying of soft-shelled ■ *453 .can always be looked upon as a danger signal, as also tho laying of doubleTfJwd; eggs. The bird may not actually He diseased as yet, and an alteration of ' is.i diet, with a copioils use of Epsom and Glauber salts, may put matters quite risk.?' Not that it' is easy to avoid doubVyolked eggs entirely in a wellrostfjd yard. And this because constitutions vary in sister pullets, even as they do in human families, and on the same dat some will get much fatter than . ~ others. Still, with care, all these egg tables can bo reduced to a minimum. V ' NEW LAID EGGS. Every poultry paper is advocating the production 'of eggs, and yet, in spite of May hundreds of fresh poultry keepers j 'in «vcry part of tho country each year, there is the, biggest tcarciiy of eggs it is poaible to imagine, and people are actually driving miles to secure the really wt-laid egg. This ia resulting in the nation of houses to accommodate a few Ma for home production. Many people *!» have Dover even thought of becoming poultry keeper! have done so for the simple reason that' they found it impossible to '.purchase, eggs during the autumn and *ate, even when they were prepared to pit good, prices for them; so, with the objeci of producing them at home, they owe invested in a pen of fowls, somelifts with snccees and in some cases •gloat it. By the selection of birds fern Rood laying strains, and by feeding teem on the right foods, - the object of ffery wculd-bo egg-producer can be sieved with hut little trouble. TRAP NESTS. j? One difficulty connected with trap-nest-ing is the releasing of the birds every '*0 hours: nearly all email fanciers have If?® 1 ® other business to attend to, poultry keeping to them is simply a hobby, but they want, it to bo profitable, and this ' > c, he done when they have a first-class laying strain. A man who is determined !?l i! make a success out of the venture ij should trap-nest his own stock, and raise ] 8 own chickens, then there is no fear 5 of failure. v'r

EXAMINING BIRDS. .. A eareiuK poultry-keeper will go into the fowl-house now and then in the even"'B. to see the birds are all right, as heir exact condition can bo observed I en on 'he perch. Should any bird bo reathing hard, a teaspoonful of warmed followed by one of salad oil, ■?, given at once, as this treatment 1 ' ea '® hi a short time; then give two ~ U P piile, and on an average fifteen ,1 s (U l '' every twenty will be well in 'W three to seven days, if treated when -."'.jr*', symptoms appear. .Should the ! 8 in the throat lie very tevere, and lunir bathing hard, the flesh over the srnica ' ' )0 P a '" le '' w ' l '' tincture of

VERMIN. olJi-t,. birds, more particularly tho H anc ' lcris , should be carefully iinnm) j venniii this month, as me fere, C .l an ? ' 0M blood (?roatly niterV'ft , tlje w ell-being of the biras, in lha° i rct ' bugs which find refuge durin» if j '* n '' crevices of the ho iii ifft i! ti / •' ant come out at night to Hi/ nl ? fowls, area fearful pest hnngSHffi /!» j- weri iters, wli,.h is Ui-i M'st ft disaster. BhouM C K dB °* the perches and cracks tier rn.iv k f d "'' ar^fl '. 30 that littlft i. ' . cleared of 'il.>sc tir-romc th« ( ,"'* ecta > and if in very bad condition, into th V ICCfI Slou ' < f ' iav e hot tar poured from insects 80 l ' ial CVerj °" ma - v 1)6 * reo intttta n ? that is a frequent causo of th { J,nrl together it, the leaving of collet ~ , on t ' ,e perches. Tho insects loiin,. {"iF this, ai) d so a refgo is bd rtrinricJi bark should alv/ay i tH C h jPP®® °'f the porches in order that rll , ckin^, r ma y b° avoided. Feather W®tlv Mi °^ l, ' r irritant affections freWcb <1. / ' ' lfl 'stating influences "wav a 'i° v ' 5 aro subjected to, and tif, VIJ 1 would be avoitfed if sufficient m£J* kea in tho cleansing of the f"r vermin the head should intj closelv and carefully. Tho c b l ho insects aro hatcho i, tly found thero, and large "iSli'fur ™ otract a good deal of nutriiijt)) , t*"© body, havo also to bo dealt ifewwulju rilt ointment should bo used !: er theso are found.