Around the Poultry Yards.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1813, 18 July 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

Around the Poultry Yards.

Tarred felt paper makes a good lining for a hen houee, and is obnoxious to vermin. Brahma, Wyandotte Bnd Plymouth Eock hens mated to Leghorn cockerels, make a £,0 -id cross for eggs and broilerp, A hen, like a man, is fond of variety in her diet, and will serve her cwnor more faithfully if she is not fed continually upon the same food. " Scurvy leg " is the work of a parasite which is destroyed by oil of almost any kind. Tbe legs of hens thus affeoted should be annointed with melted lard . The interior of the average chicken house can be m&de much cleaner and lighter by the 1 liberal ues of whitewash. In summer the ■whitewash serves as a guard against ver- ! rain. [ Fowl suffer more than almost any of the I IIV6 stock from dampness. Nothing was ! ever lost by having a dry, snug, warm hen I house, or by beeping the hens indoora during I rainy weather. Nothing is more convenient for the average farmer to feed his bens in order to make them lay in winter, than pretty hot milk. A tablespoonful of cayenne pepper mixed in occasionally br.s a good effect. Feed the hens early in the day, and give them with tbe milk some hot chopped food. Furnish onoe daily sleo pure water, and occasionally a pile of coarse sand or gravel.