POULTRY NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17220, 1 October 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)

POULTRY NOTES.

4» CLEANLINESS IN CHICK RAISING. Cleanliness is very important with little chicks. Filth allowed to collect in any quantity, whether in the brooder, roosting coop, or yards, lowers vitality and invites disease. Keep the floor of the brooder or coop lightly covered with sand, chaff, line hay, or some similar material, and sweep this out, together with the droppings and accumulated filth, every two or three days. If the coops are crowded, they must be cleaned out much more frequently. It is a good plan to put a layer of heavy paper on the floor 'of the brooder, qnd then all the litter ancl droppings may be removed by simply taking out tlie paper. Disinfect the brooders every few weeks.

A FEW HEN EGG-SAMPLES. Whitewash is very effective against vermin. Keep the little chickens from getting chilled. Turn all the sour milk you can into chickens. Study the methods of the mother hen, and treat your incubator chick= accordingly. The best layer is not always the best looker. Handsome is as handsome does.

Weed out the pimping chicks, i'nly bright, lively ones should be kept for the home flock.

Don’t feed a big flock of hens until you can manage a small one to good advantage. It is just as bad to overcrowd the flocks as it is to overfeed them. Before starting a hen on her setting period, thoroughly dust her with insect powder. Also sprinkle the powder in the nest.

Neither the hen nor the incubato? will hatch strong chickens from weak germs, or from eggs which have not received proper care. Lice ancl miles are a frequent cause of failure in raising hot weather chicks It is impossible for a lice or mitestricken bird to do well. Can you handle an axe' well? Then have one of those roosters for dinner next Saturday. Get them out of the flock. They are a nuisance to the laying hens.

INCREASED PRODUCTION. On places where the fowls receive good food, care and housing, the eg g crop is increasing daily. From now on until the broody season is at its height, there will be plenty of eggs and (~‘ie price will gradually decine Turn the cheap eggs into chickens. — “ Subscriber.” GIVE THEM FRESH AIR. Visit the chicken house at night arid ■note the quality of the air arid the breathing of the birds. If the house is stifling, it needs more air. BE REGULAR. Regularity js important. Accustom bens to a fixed hour for feeding, and if. is surprising how well they know when that hour has arrived. Delay your feeding for an hour, and it will be equally surprising to see how they worry; how they run along the fence and seem to hurry you up. Frol ling does hens no good. When I hey are allowed to worry they become nervous, and when the meal is delayed they are apt to eat too greedily. Have fixed hours and keen them to Um omua*,