ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Witness, Volume 23, Issue 2684, 23 August 1905, Page 31

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Puzzled. — Either place ring on legs or punch hole through web between toes. Some fanciers ring all the same year's pullets on the left leg one year and next year ring them on the right ; others punch web between first and second toe one year, and another web the second year, and next year operate on the other foot, and so on. A hot darning needle passed through the web" makes a punoture that will last. A. R., Featherslon. — Give thorough rest and a tonic. The following is recommended! : — Sulphate iron, black antimony, sulphur, gentian and areca nut, each 4gr. Give thrice daily. A. P. E. — 'Evidently a liver trouble. As you feed — i.e., good feeu oats twice daily — this should not have occurred. You do not say how you give eggine, but presume it is in soft fcod. Continue the eggine, reduce the soft food/ and see if the water supplied is clear. Orpingtons are very susceptible to liver trouble, and require very light feeding. If birds confined, give all the green stuff you can. *~ Queensberry. — Crooked breast is generally attributed to the use of too narrow and not too high perches. "Don't breed from crookedbreasted birds, as the progeny are very apt to show the same fault. G-. H. — Mr Sprosen, chemist, Dunedin, advertises above a specially-prepared distemper remedy. Constant Readeb, Cheviot. — Messrs Hudson and Co., Dupedin, sell dog biscuits at 3d per lb, and Mr R. A. Crawshaw, of Temple Chambers, Dunedin, is agent for an Australian brand selling at the same price.