The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-08
Among the Chickens.

Fresh eggs are those not over q week
old.
Fresh water should be given twice q
day.
Oats stand next to wheat as an egg-pro.
ducing food.
Radical changes of food often make the
hens eat sparingly.
Twenty-four hours after Matching is soon
enough TO begin feeding.
1t is not necessary to coddle or pamper
fowls to make them grow.
Wheat brau wet vith hot water makes
good summer breakfast.
April is one of the very best months for
Matching all kinds of poultry.
The fowls will not thrive if they are
forced to stand in mud all day.
Some consider that crosses Law earliest.
but the breed must be considered.
When the fowls are closely confined and
fed too high they are liable to be affected
with cramp.
There are sixty-eight standard breeds Of
chickens, ten ducks, nine of turkeys and
seven of geese.
With young chickens it is not the small
lice that make the most trouble, but the
large body lice.
On rainy DAYS the hens with young
poultry will be all the better of ii they are
kept confined in dry quarters.
Tobacco leaves put into the nests and
punches Of 1t hung around inside the
poultry house will keep away lice.
The best time TO pick duck and geese
feathers is when they are ripe; whenever
! they are clear they are ready to pull.
Whenever the fowls can have a good
range and can get plenty of green feed lit
tie or no animal fool will be necessary.
Push the early chickens now; a few
| days difference in getting to market will
| often make considerable difference in
| prices.
The extraordinary profits that are some-
times realized from one hen should not be
taken as a guide TO what can be made
from any particular breed.
The incGbators and brooders have large
] ly taken control of the very early broiler
market; properly managed they are more
reliable than hens, especially early in the
season.
With poultry, as with everything else
on the farm, there is always an opportu-
nifty to sell at good prices fowls or eggs that
are of little better quality than others are
offering.
! Game, Houdan, Leghorn, Hamburg, An
dausian and Block Spanish are the varie-
ties of chickens that require high fences
in order to control them. They are all
high-fyers.
Sulphur for nests, whitewash for the
houses, coal oil for the roosts, cleanliness
for the floors, and plenty Of pure air and a
variety of food for the fowls are essentials
in proffabls poultry keeping.
Study the economy OF feeding; the
! whole matter of profit is largely deter
! mined by the management of the feeding.
No set rules can be given. Each lot
should be fed according to its require
ments.
Pigeons will thrive in small yards II
! kept in small lots; from twelve to twenty
is plenty. They must be mated, as an ex-
ira male will often cause considerable
trouble. Wire mesh makes good cover
ing for the yards.
1t is considered that the ovary OF the
| average hen contains about six hundred
eggs; twenty mature the first year, 100
! the second, l35 the third and the rest after
that; so the second and third years are the
best for egg production.
The difference between the Pekin and
the Aylesbury breeds of ducks is that the
Pekin is somewhat larger and is some-
times a creamy white with a deep vel
low bill, while the Aylesbury is always
pure white with bill OF flesh color.