HINTS FOR BREEDERS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1678, 27 April 1904, Page 72 (Supplement)

HINTS FOR BREEDERS.

Some capital Dorking® have recently .been imported to Victoria. Good news to breeders. Indian Runner duoka promise to be in great demand. They aro fine layers, and mature early. Green grass contains alii the essentials for good food for fowls. It can be chaffed and fed with soft food. Lucerne and clover are the best of the grasses. Turpentine on a feather twirled round the throat of a fowl, and smartly withdrawn will often cure gapes in fowls. Don’t feed much maize to your fowls during hot weather. It is very heating, and lays on fat inside, instead of flesh. A bullock’s heart hung on a tree in the poultry run will throw off a 'lot of food Which chickens relish if werms or insect foou are not available. ‘Now is the time to buy small discarded potatoes from the growers; they can be secured at low prices. Roil and mix with a little pollard and bran for a cl leap meal. Cabbages or lettuce should be hung to a fence so that the birds can reach, to pick them. If they are thrown to tlhe ground there is always a certain amount of waste. Let there he an odd number of eggs under the sitting hen, if possible. They roll better—in other word®, are better turned by the hen. If the eggs are not well turned by the hen they will not hatch, the chick becoming more or less glued fast to the side.