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Otago Witness, Issue 3672, 29 July 1924, Page 28

\N\W Whether one is a more youthful appliances, coining into the world as tiny living organisms, possessing inherent productive possibilities, each potential profit makers to complete the cycle of the business scheme of Egg production. The destiny of the Poultry-keeper's enterprise is in his Chicken crop, and success or disaster rests with his methods of Rearing. The Novice is annually treated through the various Specialist periodicals as well as the daily papers to all manner of advice from people who claim to be experts, advice which differs to such an extent that the seeker after enlightenment becomes at once surfeited and confused with the flow of contradictory information. Within this brief article we. shall apply plain understandable language with the object of giving the Novice What he desires in tabloid form prepared for ready mental digestion. The first common-sense principle in Chick-rearing is to avoid artificiality as much as possible. What I mean Is that if we would achieve maximum success we must contravene Nature’s Laws only so far as is absolutely necessary. We want to make a friend and a good ally of Nature. She tolerates interference with her great and wondrous scheme within well-prescribed limits. We have bred the Laying Hen to a high degree of productivity, some eight times greater than Nature ordained, and to that extent we have imposed upon Nature. That being so, we must adopt every possible means to conserve stamina and vigour—upon which intensified productivity is an attack—within the Chick so that it may arrive at maturity well prepared physically for the ordeal before it. The impression entertained by the average Amateur is that the newly-born Chick is a thing of great fragility and he proceeds to pamper and coddle it by every means he can think of. More Chicks are killed and more Chicken constitutions are undermined by this policy every year than any other influence. What I mean by pampering and coddling is the practice of confining the Chicks too long indoors on artificial floors, and limiting health-giving open air exercise. If a brooder is used the little charges are subjected to high temperatures. and lastly, the provision of an abundance of badly conceived, concentrated, unsuitable foods, which destroy the digestion. Then conies diarrhoea, rickets, and cramp, with the inevitable mortality, and the Novice wonders what he has done wrong. It is merely Nature that has asserted her authority and supremacy. After the Chicks have got their legs —say in a couple of days—the first thing to do is to encourage exe’rcise as much as possible, on mother earth. It does not matter if there is not a blade of grass on the ground—a good grass turf is best of course, but that is not always available in backyard premises—exercise on Nature’s floor is one of the essential things. For the first ten days the wired-in Chick run can be protected from cold and biting winds by skip lids or similar provision which can be moved round as the wind changes, and from By FRED TOOTILL. snow or rain by sheltering the run with an old cucumber frame or garden cold frame glass light, or even an old window frame. Anything to give a little protection and which will keep the wired-in run fairly dry, so arranged as to give plenty of ventilation and will not exclude the light. During the early months we do not get an over-abundance of sunshine in this country and every ray that comes is valuable to the baby Chicks. The run should therefore be arranged so as to get the full benefit of every scrap of Sunshine. You know how light-hearted you feel yourself on a bright sunny morning after a spell, of cold, damp, muggy, dull, depressing weather. Well, a few rays of Winter or early Spring sunshine has a wonderful effect upon the tiny Chicks—even more pronounced than it has upon you. How to Feed. During the first two weeks of their existence allow chickens to have five or six full meals per diem. They should be chiefly ”crowd,v,” that is, a mixture of good chick-rearing meal prepared with water or miJk into a light crumbly condition, Let the first meal of the day—and the first one only—contain Karswood Chicken Powder at the rate of one teaspoonful for every 20 birds. After the first three or four days let the alternate meals—breakfast should always consist of “erowdy”—be cut groats, kibbled wheat, or a good brand of ‘‘dry chick feed.” Continue on these lines for the first three months, giving “erowdy” and grain as alternate feeds, gradually altering the grain to include finely kibbled maize, whole wheat and groats and clipped oats, and reducing the number of meals to four a day. But during the third and fourth weeks add two teaspoonfuls of Karswood Chicken Powder to the first meal—and, mark this well, throughout the entire time add the Karswood Chicken Powder to fhe breakfast only and not to the whole of the “erowdy” given during the day—for every twenty chickens ; from one month to two months increase to three teaspoonfuls of it for a similar number, and from two to three months give one tablespoonful. After that age give Karswood Poultry Spice in a mash for egg production. Throughout the rearing stage keep plentiful supplies of flint grit, fresh young green food, and clean soft water always within reach of the birds, and particularly during the early season, when a grass run is seldom available. This is a simple enough regime for the rearing of chickens ; and if followed it cannot fail to produce birds of splendid size, vigorous and full of stamina, the stock one must possess for good laying and good breeding. There is this to be said : Karswood Chicken Powder is not in its experimental stage. Those days are long past ; it has been tested by the best, and has proved its great value in chicken rearing. Of the thousands of testimonials the makers have received in connection with its use it is necessary to mention only a few. Most of those poultry-keepers who have tried Karswood Chicken Powder are definite on one point, viz., that before they used it they experienced great difficulty in rearing the full hatch, whereas after using it they had not the least difficulty in rearing every chick. All who have the interests of the Poultry Industry at heart must know that the very life of that industry depends on rearing sound chicks. Hence, to prevent the great mortality of chickens in the busy season, it is a wise plan to follow the lead of those who have been so successful—those who use Karswood Chicken Powder. Every Egg Hatched. Every Chick Lived. 251, Shinfield Road, Reading. Having finished hatching, I thought I would let you know I have hatched and sold sittings numbering 185 eggs and have not had one infertile egg—all have had fifteen chicks from 15 eggs—needless to say the parents are fed on Karswood Spice, each hen laid over 200 since September ; have also reared 02 chicks myself, and no deaths, also on Karswood Chicken Powder. I bought 2 sittings from well-known firms for fresh stock : one had 0 infertile and the other 5, so evidently they don’t use Karswood. Best wishes, July 3. F. E. BURGESS. It Works Excellently. 21, Gransden Avenue, London Lane, Hackney. I have been using Karswood for just a year. It has worked wonderfully well. I had some lovely chicks in May, and 1 fed them on your Katswoou. I weighed one of iny pullets, ar.d it weighed Si ounces. 1 am telling all my poultrykeeping friends to buy Karswood, as it works excellently. July 1. P. lIFXTABLE. 18 Chicks Doing Well. 17 Vivian St., Hafod, Swansea. I should like to inform you that I have been a constant user of all Karswood products for this last few years. I have had pullets to lay and Keep laying at five months oid, and I have 18 chicks doing grand on Karswood. July 1. I*. HUXTABLK. fm Made Such an Improvement. Railway Cottage, Ohakune Junction. Please send me three pounds of Karswood Poultry Spice. I had one packet given to me, and it made such an improvement in the hens that I feel I cannot do without it now. Postal notes enclosed for 8/-. MRS. T. HALL. Sizes and Prices—Karswood Chicken Powder. 4d. packet supplies 20 chickens 7 days. 1/- packet supplies 20 chickens 30 days. 2/- packet supplies 20 chickens 60 days. Karswood Chicken Powder contains no Ginger, Gentian, Capsicum, or Chillies. It contains instead ground insects, which chickens love. If your local dealer cannot supply, send a postcard to the New Zealand Agent (address below), asking the name of the nearest dealer who supplies Karswood Chicken Powder. FAIKBAIUN, HEIGHT AND CO., Lichfield Street, Christchurch; Moore Street, Auckland; Oid Customhouse St., Wellington; and Moray Place, Dunedin. NOTE. —The sole manufacturers of Karswood Chicken Powder and Karswood Poultry Spice (containin' / ground insects) are E. Griffiths Hughes, Ltd., Manchester, England, established 1756, in the reign of George the Second.

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