The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-05-04
Making Poultry Profitable.

If you want good, stroll & chicks, you
must begin at the beginning, and
see that the stock that produces the
eggs is strong and vigorous, since
healthy chick can only be hatched from
a strongly fertilized egg. The germ
in an egg from weak, diseased stock
will always be weak and will never
produce a strong chick, II It matches at
all.
Dry feeding is the very best for
young chickens. and any of the pre-
pared chicken foods are good. Feed
this for the first two weeks, and then
feed wheat, rolled oats, and cracked
corn and you will raise ninety per cent.
of all chickens hatched. Keep clab-
bered or buttermilk before your chick
ems every day; 1t will make them grow,
help keep them in good health, and
make the hens lay more eggs.
A good dry chicken food is made as
follows: Cracked wheat, twenty
parts; pinhead, or rolled, oats. twenty
parts: finely cracked corn, fifteen parts;
millet seed, ten parts; meat scraps,
ten parts; granulated charcoal, five
parts. This can be fed five times day,
all they will eat up clean. and your
chicks will never have bowel trouble,
the poultryman's worst enemy.
When a farmer says he would like
to keep poultry if he had suitable
place for them, he simply means that
he is not interested enough to make
place for them.
When your fowls are droopy. and
ailing, it is always good plan to first
find out what is the matter with them.
before beginning the indiscriminate ad-
ministering of drugs. AS soon as an
ailing fowl is discovered it should be
removed from the flock and isolated,
after which its case should be studied,
and medicine, if given at all, given
very cautiously.
A hen may be considered to consume
one bushel of grain yearly and lay ten
dozen. or fifteen pounds, of eggs. This
is equivalent to saying that three ana
Oue-teulu pOuHuS VI Soih win PtoN~>'
when fed to a hen, fire-sixths of
pound of eggs, but five-sixths of
pound of pork requires about five
pounds Of corn for its production. TAX
ing into account the nutriment in each.
and the comparative prices of the two
on an average, the pork is about three
times as costly a food as eggs. There
fore. it will pay better to feed waste
milk to fowls than to pigs, If not
enough for both. There are little
things in the poultry business Of minor
Importance, apparently, that, If neg
Iected, will change success into failure.
There is no other live stock business
wherein punctuality and eternal vigil
ance are so necessary as in the rearing
of poultry.
Sorehead among poultry is Of very
common occurrence at this time OF the
year. 1t is phase Of roup, catarrh or
Inflammation. aggravated. if not caused,
by neglect, foul air, damp quarters or
exposure on the roost at night. In an
advanced stage the head becomes in
famed and swollen Oh one or both
sides, often obstructing the sight and
many times resulting in the loss Of one
or both eyes; but the appetite is good
up to the last, unless internally affect
ed. Roup, or sorehead, usually appears
as on epidemic, and if cure is not
effected. will spread through whole
dock. In the early stages of the dis
ease, cure can be effected by injecting
into the nostrils with a machine
squirt can a little kerosene oil, and
quitting a few drops down the throat.
Anoint the head, if swollen, with carbo-
lated vaseline. 1t is not advisable to
save a bird that has lost an eye from
roup, as nine times out of ten they
never fully recover from it, and are
sure to have the disease again as soon
as cold, wet weather sets in once more.
Doctor in early stages, but use the ak
if too far gone, and bury the carcass.
Fowls that have the run of green
clover patch will lay more and a larger
number Of fertile eggs than on any
other kind of food. They will do this
even on no other grain ration than
corn.-Charlotte (N. c. Observer.