The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-02

DISEASE IN POULTRY.
A Successful Poultry woman's suggos-
lions for Its Prevention.


A Successful Poultry woman's sugges-
lions for Its Prevention,
Fanny Field, who has made a success
of poultry, has also written book on
the subject, in which she says;
II your fowls are so "weaklylike"
that you must be always bracing them
up with chicken powders, pastes, pills.
elixirs and tonics of all sorts, better let
them die or kill them at once and have
done with 1t. Long experience in the
care Of poultry has convinced me that
proper food, drink and care, together
with strict attention to the sanitary con-
dition Of the house and surroundings,
will almost il not quite Danish disease
from the poultry yard.
Here are some of the preventive meas
ures suggestedi Guard agaist dampness.
II the place selected for poultry house
be not well drained naturally, drain it
by artificial methods and always place
the coops for little chicks on the driest
spot Of ground at your command. In all
new poultry houses, and especially those
that are built late in the fall, there is a
good deal of moisture which comes from
the ground, and which, when the house
is closed, as it must be In cold weather,
shows itself in frost or dampness on the
ceiling and walls. Dry, ventilate this
natural moisture out of the house before
the fowls are put in.
See that your poultry houses and
chicken coops are well ventilated with
out exposing the occupants to the danger
of sleeping In drafts of air.
Keep the poultry house, the yards, the
chicken coops and everything about
them clean. Every morning sprinkle
some absorbent, dry earth, land plaster
or coal ashes (never wood ashes) over
the droppings under the roost, and as
often as once d week remove the drop
pings from the house. Every spring and
fall, and once at least in midsummer
| (oftener if some contagious poultry dis
ease, Is prevalent in your immediate
neighborhood), whitewash the inside Of
the poultry house thoroughly. When
contagious poultry disease is present
among your flock or among those Of
near neighbors, use some disinfectant
daily about the houses, yards and all
places much frequented by the fowls
until all danger is past. One of the bes,
disinfectants is prepared by adding two
ounces of carbolic acid to three quarts
of water. Another good disinfectant i,
made by dissolving three pounds of cop
peras in five gallons of water, and Their
adding half pint Of crude carbolit
acid. Sprinkle the disinfectant about
by means of common watering POI
with a fine nozzle.
When the fowls are confined to yard.
portion of the yard should be spadct
or plowed up every week during warn
weather.
Chicken coops should be cleaned ant
whitewashed whenever a new family o.
chicks is moved in, and they must b.
moved and the droppings scraped away
often enough to prevent foul odors
After each cleansing sprinkle the grount
with a handful of air Stacked lime ant
then throw on shovelful Of sand
gravel or dry earth before the coop i
moved back.
Keep fowls and chicks free from lice
Avoid crowding. Feed only fresh
wholesome food, and keep pure waite
where the fowls can have it at all times
Keep a supply of gravel, charcoal an
crushed oyster shells or lime in som
shape where they can help themselves
Never breed from unhealthy fowls
Have building or room apart from tn
general quarters where sick fowls ca
be confined and treated away from tn
rest of the flock. When strange fowl
are brought upon the premises, no mat
ter if they come from the yards of tn
"best breeders" keep them apart fror
the rest of the flock until you are sur
they are free from disease.