POULTRY NOTES
BY
A. PEAT
The official column of the Invercargill Poultry, Pigeon, Canary and Pet Club, and the Southland Poultry Producers’ Federation.
Reader, Waimahaka.—Although a hen ; may sit well this year there is no guarantee she will do so next year. The same thing applies to her eating the eggs. She may not do it next time you sit her. Probably the two eggs may have been thin shelled and when turning them or when getting on the nest she may have broken them and naturally would eat them. If the eggs she is sitting on are valuable it would be advisable to place them under another hen as now that she is sick she may not have sufficient heat in her body to keep the eggs at the right temperature. Give her 10 grains of Epsom salts and the same quantity of bicarbonate of soda daily for four or five days and bread and milk to eat. (2) It is very difficult to say what your rooster is suffering from without seeing him. Give him one teaspoonful of cod liver oil daily and feed him on oatmeal porridge, bread and scalded milk with a little sulphur added. A little cooked meat or meat scraps will also help. Add a few drops of Parish’s chemical food to the drinking water. (3) More than likely your pullets have got a fright when about to lay, either by rats or other vermin running around the nest or a dog or something coming on them suddenly. If you pe it on the nest try and place something in front of it quietly and leave it there until she has laid. Repeat this for a day or two and she will soon settle down again. (4) The causes are the same as for (3) but the fright may have been greater and caused her to lay the • gg before it was ready. Or perhaps you are feeding rather much meat or meatmeal and forcing the birds on too quickly. Birds on free range for more than half the day will not require any meat as they will find sufficient insects and worms. Those interested in Norwich canaries should not miss the lecture at the Invercargill Poultry Club’s meeting on Saturday evening in Everybody’s by Mr W. Henderson. He is a successful breeder and exhibitor both at Home and in New Zealand and his experience will be valuable. Everyone is cordially invited to these lectures whether they are members of the club or not, as these lectures are given for the benefit of all fanciers. HUSKLESS OAT Tests of the new huskless oat have been completed by Moon and Thomas at Armstrong College. The table shows that the huskless oat is appreciably more digestible except for oil. The calculated values of the two samples show a 20 per cent, difference in general feeding value, when properly used, in favour of the huskless oats. Mr J. W. Vickerman sold a geld medal pen of six birds for £l2O. Mr Frank Heyworth obtained £lOO for two silver medal championship pens of Rhode Island Reds and White Wyandottes. Evidently competition winners are valuable in England and it is interesting to note the different breeds that get into the prize money, not like in New Zealand where White Leghorns and Black Orpingtons are the only winners. At the S.P.K.L. trials Buff Rocks were first, Rhode Island Reds second, and White Wyandottes third. Messrs Newall and Jeff have won the national test with their Anconas for the second year in succession. They have won it four times in the last six years sc other breeds can lay as well as blacks and whites. By winning all three duck sections at the Harper Adams laying trials Captain Thompson has set up a record that should be hard to beat. His Khaki Campbells won the College Flock Cup with an average of 255 eggs a bird. His White Campbells won their section and a gold medal with an average of 224 eggs and the single bird gold medal with a score of 318.
For the fourth year in succession the Drydon Poultry Breeding Farm, Modeste, United States of America has just shipped 65 pedigree White Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks to the Japanese Government, the birds being selected by Mr S. lida, of Tokyo, on behalf of the Department of Agriculture of Japan, which has been importing extensively the last few years from America, Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand.
At the South African Cage Bird As'saciation’s annual meeting it was unanimously carried that coloured aluminium rings be used for budgerigars as from the year 1938—a new colour to be issued for each year. A good suggestion for New Zealand breeders.
A three-year-old White Leghorn hen belonging to Mrs Whytock of Johannesburg, laid an egg six and a-half inches in length. It weighed four and a-half ounces and had an eliptical circumference of eight inches. A Bedford View White Leghorn laid two eggs whose eliptical circumferences were six and an eighth and six and a-quarter inches respectively. Twenty pigeons have been added to the staff of a leading New Orleans newspaper. Their job is to fly Lack with the “scoops,” especially from the scene of action.
At the Wynam egg laying test a Queensland breeder has a Rhode Island Red pullet that laid an unbroken sequence of 111 eggs in 111 days. The mature fowl tick can live for several years without a feed but the larvae die in a few weeks if they cannot get on to a fowl. Fowls kept intensively must have some form of animal food. Horseflesh is a very useful food when obtainable as it contains 21.7 per cent, albuminoids, 2.6 per cent, fats, and 1.4 per cent, salts. Green cut bone is one of the finest egg producing foods in the world as it contains 20.2 per cent, albuminoids, 26.1 per cent, fats and oils and 24 per cent, salts and minerals. The bones should be fresh from the butcher and be ground up in a bonecutter. Shoulder-blade bones are deficient in nutriment, the marrow bones being the best. PIGEON USED FOR SMUGGLING. The capture of a pigeon has led to the undoing of a gang of smugglers from Herzogenrath, near Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle). Four men, charged in the Aachen court with smuggling foreign currency over the frontier by sending the notes by carrier pigeon, admitted that their system had “worked well” until the bird was caught by the customs authorities. The pigeon was found with several 100-mark notes attached to its feet. Three of the accused were each sentenced to a year’s imprisonment and a fine of 2500 marks. The fourth was acquitted. Under the Land Settlement Association schemes passed by the British Government it was decided to bring unemployec men and their families from distressed areas to given land settlements for those taking up poultry farming. So many settlements have been set up in different parts of the country that the requirements for the 1937-38 season will be in the vicinity of 2,500,000 chickens to stock these settlements. , „ Mr E. G. Rowe, of Port Elizabeth, Africa, is a wild-bird fancier and has 450 birds consisting of 72 different varieties and they get through 3001 b of seed a month. The Brown Leghorn is a very popular fowl on the continent, probably more so than the White Leghorn. The German Government is encouraging the poultry industry with a
view to eventually supplying its own requirements and perhaps exporting. With this end in view the small holder and peasant poultry keeper are supplied good cock birds at whatever price they can afford to pay. The average production of German hens at present is 80 to 90 eggs a year. EARLY CHICKENS Why is it our early chickens do so much better than the late ones? The chief reason is that the ground is clean and the early ones get the run over all the ground. If you kept a patch of clean grass for your late ones you would not have half the trouble with them and they would do twice as well. If you see the little chickens’ wings begin to aroop cut them the same as you would to stop a hen from flying or they will soon droop further until they drag on the ground and in a short time the chickens will be dead. It your chickens are confined see they have plenty of green feed and a piece of liver or a little mince meat twice a week will be a great help. Rare African grey parrots, finches, monkeys, and marmosets to the number of 107 and valued at £2OO were discovered in the bunkers and ventilators of the stokehold of the vessel Neston when she put in at Perth on her way to Cape Town. How, when, where ana by whom they were brought on board is an absolute mystery. Nobody would claim ownership when found. The animals were confiscated and sent to the South Perth Zoo where they will remain in perpetual quarantine. DUCK NOT MEANT FOR GRAIN The duck’s intestine is only twothirds the length of that of a hen, because a duck’s natural feed is not grain, but small fish, shellfish, slugs, and soft water weeds, which are digested by the gastric juices rather than by the muscular action of the gizzard, and then a slower gastric action as in the case of hens. A wild duck has a very small gizzard, but the domesticated duck has had to adjust itself to circumstances and its gizzard is better developed; nevertheless, it is not meant for hard feeds. Consequently grain given to ducks I should for the most part consist of meals, for these are very rapidly acted on by the gastric juices, and the body and ovaries are consequently quicker fed and eggs are laid sooner. EGG-LAYING CONTESTS MASSEY COLLEGE (30th week) Single Light Breeds A. G. Mumby (W.L.) 5 160 J. Wilson (W.L.) 5 158 W. Scott (W.L.) 6 156 ♦A. Hoare (W.L.) 5 152 O. Markland (W.L.) 6 147 Single Heavy Breeds Miss E. T. Somer (R.1.R.) 6 175 Miss E. T. Somer (R.1.R.) 7 167 Mrs N. Douglas (B.O.) 5 161 Mrs R. Williers (B.O.) 5 154 Mrs W. Huxtable (B.O.) 5 - 147 Light Breeds (six birds) ♦H. A. Lucas (W.L.) 22 797 Ancona P.F. (W.L.) 29 741 Mrs G. Sewell (W.L.) 28 697 ♦C. L. Urquhart (W.L.) 24 620 S. Batten (W.L.) 27 595 Heavy Breeds (six birds) ♦L. Hooper (B.O.) 29 833 *W. A. Larsen (A. 0. 24 775 •F. A. Dewhurst (R.1.R.) 32 717 •Austral P.F. (B.O.) 32 701 *G. A. Edge (R.1.R.) 30 534 TARANAKI (30th week) Single Heavy Breeds G. A. Edge (R.I.R) 5 181 N. Ross (B.O.) 7 180 Mrs K. Moreland (A. 0. 6 179 J. Hurdle (A. 0. 4 168 Mrs D. M. Waddell (B.O.) 5 164 Single Light Breeds Mrs A. Revell (W.L.) 6 173 J. T. Hazlewood (W.L.) 6 158 Sunny River P.F. (W.L.) 6 157 Sunny River P.F. (W.L.) 4 146 W. Scott (W.L.) 6 144 ■ Single Ducks Mrs E. Kelly (K.C.) 7 208 Mrs E. Kelly (K.C.) 7 201 Mrs A. Revell (F.W.R.) 7 190 H. Melville (F.W.R.) 7 153 Mrs E. Kelly (K.C.) 6 152 Heavy Breeds (three birds) N. Ross (B.O.) 16 444 G. A. Edge (R.1.R.) 14 431 Mrs H. Moreland (A. 0. 11 440 Mrs F. A. Warren (B.O.) 14 372 W. A. Larsen (A. 0. 16 359 S. Basoro (Lang.) 17 359 Light Breeds (three birds) Sunny River P.F. (W.L.) 13 423 W. Scott (W.L.) 16 397 Mrs A. Revell (W.L.) 16 375 M. Stephenson (W.L.) 15 342 C. L. Urquhart (W.L.) 18 336 AUCKLAND (28th week) Heavy Breeds (six birds) Huxtable Bros. (B.O.) 30 806 H. Harrison (B. Lang.) 33 737 ‘N. Ross (A. 0. 30 678 •W. Worthington (B.O.) 31 643 •Mrs Howarth (B.O.) 32 623 Light Breeds (six birds) •J. B. Guy (W.L.) 35 730 W. Spencer (W.L.) 35 693 Argyle P.F. (W.L.) 36 677 Whenuapa s P.F. (W.L.) 35 649 ♦T. Ingham (W.L.) 28 615 Single Bird (all breeds) ♦Ancona P.F. (A. 0. 7 158 *N. Ross (A. 0. 6 156 *E. Wells (B.O.) 5 156 *G. Hawkins (W.L.) 6 149 W. G. Crabb (B.O.) 5 147 Light Breeds (four birds) Mrs L. Stubleman (W.L.) 20 554 H. Turner (W.L.) 23 521 W. Spencer (W.L.) 22 571 ’H. Mumme (W.L.) 22 507 L. Hooper (W.L.) 24 499 Heavy Breeds (four birds) *K. A. Powell (B.O.) 27 642 ♦Mrs D. Edwards (B.O.) 25 572 *Mrs N. Ross (B.O.) 22 571 *C. Harding (B.O.) 17 569 *P. Dougla (B.O.) 26 563 Ducks (four birds) Mrs E. Kelly (K.C.) 28 707 W. T. Gilmour (K.C.) 28 699 Mrs D. Simons (K.C.) 20 (ID) 660 L. Ayling (K.C.) 23 640 S. Clark (K.C.) 24 621 •Denotes under-weight eggs. PAPANUI (29th week) TEST No. I.—J. H. SHAW MEMORIAL CHALLENGE. (For light and heavy
TEST No. 2.—WHITE LEGHORN SINGLE HEN TEST. (Each competitor to enter three purebred pullets, to be single pen-
TEST No. 3.—BLACK ORPINGTONS AND AUSTRAL ORPS. (Competitor to enter three birds.)
TEST No. 4.—ANY VARIETY LIGHT OR HEAVY BREEDS, OTHER THAN WHITE LEGHORNS OR BLACK
TEST No. S.—SINGLE HEN TEST, LIGHT AND HEAVY BREEDS. (Each competitor to enter six pure-bred pullets, to be single penned.)
breeds, single penned) ra o •d 0 >» s <D £ C. Mlln (A.O.) 1 82 J. R. Griffen (L.S.) 6 133 C. N. Goodman (A.O.) (1) 5 122 C. N. Goodman (A.O.) (2,; 3 58 D. J. Hawke (B.O.) 4 127 Miss F. Kerr (A.O.) 5 68 S. F. Marshall (A.O.) 5 146 W. N. Jepson (A.O.) 5 102 J. Gunn (A.O.) 6 • 108 G. D. Hollyman (A.O.) 6 135 J. Brennan 6 69 Ted Turner 5 129 H. Whyte (1) 3 149 H. Whyte (2) 5 136
Mrs C. J. Collings 6 94 G. Wright 5 114 D. J. Hawke 5 68 M. C. Mills 5 142 Miss F. Kerr 4 132 J. Hamilton 5 76 Miss H. Keddell 6 142 J. Ibbotson (No. 1) 6 88 E. Tilley 6 96 F. C. Innes 7 135 W. E. Harvey 1 72 A. C. Goodlet 5 100 R. West 7 111 H. Williams (No. 1) 6 130 Mrs J. Still (No. 1) 6 88 A. Lucas (No. 1) 6 120 H. Williams (No. 2) 7 132 W. E. Ward 5 117 J. Liggins 7 128 E. P. Anderson (No. 1) 3 87 W. Barrell 5 86 J. Ibbotson (No. 2) 5 119 Mrs J. Still (No. 2) 5 107 A. Lucas (No. 2) 7 150 T. Cairns 6 146 L. P. Hawke 6 130 J. H. Graham 6 121 T. B. Grant 6 82 T. S. Dove 4 131 Green Bros. 6 99 C. A. B. Williams 4 131 E. P. Anderson (No. 2) 6 116 Mrs B. Andrews 6 88
ned) G. Millar (No. 1) Grand total. 151 115 136 Mrs F. D. Dillon 130 87 95 Mrs B. Snelling 97 108 144 A. W. Pritchard 103 135 135 F. Ashworth 122 131 112 D. J. Hawke 87 151 148 Miss F. Kerr 85 144 71 S. F. Marshall 109 110 105 G. H. Bradford (No. 1) 93 143 142 W. M. Evans 155 154 94 Miss H. Keddell 118 81 110 J. Brennan 23 90 101 G. H. Bradford (No. 2) 113 133 98 L. Brumby 138 160 122 Mrs J. A. Ritchie 143 130 118 E. Tilley 148 125 104 P. Knight ' 118 150 151 F. C. Innes 77 100 89 Green Bros. 84 137 145 A. C. Goodlet 156 135 156 A. D. Whyte 87 76 116 J. H. Jones 110 112 110 H. Williams (No. 1) 107 52 130 H. Williams (No. 2) 113 161 114 J. Liggins (No. 1) 120 55 137 J. Liggins (No. 2) 107 126 130 A. Edwards 135 123 103 J. B. Lees 81 126 150 A. S. Cormack 101 93 157 T. S. Dove 148 115 108 A. O. Oakley 157 170 117 W. Turner 89 149 120 E. Fuchs 139 124 125 Argyle Poultry Farm 137 103 107 Mrs B. Andrews 115 141 110
A. S. Cormack (A.O. 159 85 154 Miss F. Kerr (A.O.) 51 82 85 S. Brumby (A.O.), (No. 1) 68 67 44 S. Brumby (A.O.), (No 2) 120 141 149 D. J. Hawke (B.O.) 98 147 114 L. Brumby (A.O.) 52 92 65 C. O. King (A.O.) 161 150 157 B. Cotterell (A.O.) 100 138 22 K. D. Martin (A.O.) 111 155 130 W. N. Jepson (A.O.) 103 148 94 G. D. Hollyman (A.O.), (No. 1) 100 144 126 G. D. Hollyman (A.O.). (No. 2) 117 128 156 D. A. Tutton 41 75 36
ORPINGTONS. R. Pearce (A.) 85 66 103 A. W. Pritchard (B.L.) 41 136 118 E. R. Buckley (R.I.R.) 123 143 134 W. J. Scott (R.I.R.) 114 143 165 T. B. Grant (R.I.R.) 110 83 80 C. Stone (R.I.R.) 145 112 125 P. A. Cornish (L.S.) 107 100 39
Weekly total Total G. Millar 17 444 D. A. McKie (A.O.) 31 650 S. E. Davey and Sons (No! 1, 32 766 J. Liggins 29 641 E. F. Butler 32 642 L. G. Ancall 29 733 G. H. Bradford (No. 1) 20 601 G. H. Bradford (No. 2) 35 836 G. H. Bradford (No. 3) 34 675 S. E. Davey and Sons (No. 2) 34 669 Mrs B. Andrews 34 677 E. Tilley 30 675 G. H. Mitchell 31 705 S. E. Davey and Sons (No. 3) 34 842 T. S. Dove (No. 1) 32 695 H. Williams 35 766 D. A. McKie 28 775 Calder Bros. (No. 1) 32 647 Calder Bros. (No. 2) 29 733 T. S. Dove (No 2) 20 629 E. P. Anderson 37 736 A. D. Russell 33 757 G. D. Hollyman 29 696 TEST No. 6.—SINGLE DUCK TEST. F. Ashworth (K.C.) 137 175 162 G. Wright (K.C.) 121 137 184 Mrs C. J. Collings (K.C.) 184 151 89 J. W. Thomson (K.C.) 14 129 183 R. J. Vallance (K.C.) 139 59 109 A. G. F. Ross (I.R.) 167 139 192 I. Williams (I.R.) 146 162 143 W. A. Toon (K.C.) 134 136 177
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