THE CARE OF POULTRY

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

THE CARE OF POULTRY

Carelessness and negleot are worse iblian disease. True choilera is seldom seen; 'have a Hook for lice. Mixing grit with the an ash will cause enteritis. Filth spells failure at any tune; keep things clean. Regularity in all things will go a llonig Tyay towards keeping disease at bay. Almost every epidemic that attacks your fowls could he nipped in the bud if taken in hand at once. A little sulphur and a little salt in the mesh are good in cases of feather picking. ‘‘■Going light” is sometimes nothing more than the effects of intestinal worms’ ravages. ■This can he gauged by the appetite. If voracious, look for worms; if tihie fowls refuse food, it is the liver. The pale-faced hen is never a beauty —neither would you be if thickly infested with licen A tabilespoonful of carbolic acid in a ©atflon of kerosense is highly recommended as an Effective lioe killer and disinfectant. 11 V/ ... Orooked breasts result from allowing ohicks to roost too young, bumble foot from too higjh perches; so that even the perch has a great deal to, do with the fowls’ health. plenty of light, either' through a window or a wire front should be admitted into every poultry homto. The new fancier, says “Farm Poultry,” should make his beginning with the best specimens of his variety that he can afford to buy. The safest way—the most perm ardently successful way—for ah coniceirned, says Gazette,” is to begin small and'igrow ilarge, rather than begin large and^‘burst up.’’ Ev.ery breed.has a place, and can under some circuits 1 ices be profitably bred; and since, % love for your breed is a most desirables thing, just seflect the breed you fancy most. -The beginner should bo ever ready to learn. A blunder at the start in- 1

volvea anore serious consequences than later on, and you should, above ail things', endeavour to get Started right. A farmer we know who was formerly a great opponent of thoroughbreds through pirejudice ; , but Whom we managed to p.acate with a setting of Silver \v yandotte eggs as a gitt. recently sent in a coop oi clucks for sa)le. Though only given the same care aisi hits mongrels haa previously had, these birds brought per cent more than ordinary stuff. That farmer's faith in thoroughbreds is now deep-rooted.