The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-15
ADVICE FOB POULTRYuEH
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/ fixed for them. This, of course. means
careful and considerable attention to
the fowls we select as breeders; for in
| their selection lies the foundation OF
| success or failure in the seasons work
| the more so because we are gener-
| ally obliged to adapt them to more or
| less artificial conditions; that is, in the
| average back yard we must restrict
! their range and pass to them every
| thing they eat, with but little oppor-
| tunity or them to exert themselves TO
get it. They have only to pick it UP
II swallow it. This necessitates
some watchfulness, lest they overfeed
and become too fat to lay, or even to
live, and is overcome by feeding their
grain in a litter of anything clean that
will force them to scratch it out.
Fowls that have unlimited range over
areas that are part ploughed and part
lass covered. where they find an
abundance of insect life, seeds, grasses
and weeds, together with the eXhilar
ating effort of hunting these foods,
thrive almost without attention from
their owners, and furnish strongly fer
tile eggs and consequently sturdy
chicks. But in small yards insects of
the kind the fowls will eat are soon
exterminated, grass plats become foul
ed, or furnish but few young blades,
and having so little to hunt they are
likely to become disheartened and in
active thus making poor layers, and
still poorer breeders.
Every kitchen door yard may have
it's half-dozen hens, for such flock
is a sure and profitable means of con-
verting kitchen and table waste into
an almost constant supply of fresh
eggs, thus removing all risks of eggs
of uncertain age and varying price.
The owner may safely limit himself
to a pen of four, five or six fowls, al
lowing the hens to hatch and rear one
brood after another in the fall and
winter months (for HawaiD. Work
with the incubator and brooder will
come easier after a period of practice
with hen-raised chicks. Then from the
young fiocks save the best specimens
in vigor, size weight and color for
another seasons egg supply, both for
table and for Matching. In the mean
time the unpromising specimens, from
twelve weeks of age up have furnish
ed the table with broiiers or soft roast
ers, and given more yard room to those
worth keeping as layers and breeders.
The owner should be certain that the
ing for variable appetites in the hot
ter season, so that the timid hens are
not kept in short allowance by the
greed of others holder. Also, that the
male bird feeds well on all that is fur |
nished the flock, which he does not .
always do.
Ample shade in the yard at all seal
sons, an abundance of green food |
lettuce, cabbage alfalfa, ETC., grit, !
dust-bath of loose dry earth, clean
fresh water kept in the shade, clean
Ioosting quarters, away from direct
drafts, in an airy house, will. with
careful feeding, almost insure fertile
eggs from the breeding stock, and
strong, healthy chicks when Matched.
Choosing the cooler months of the
year for breeding, when the stock is
In best condition, the owner should
provide comfortably roomy brood-coops i
with earth-covered wooden floor, small
mesh wire fronts, the whole closed
against marauding animals. and raised
= few inches off the ground to escape
1ampness by rain. These coops must
be cleaned daily Attached to each
coop, or made part Of it there should
De a covered runway to conf1ne the
hen, for the chicks need to be hover
5O OIISn curing Inc Qdy, DIS lHey are
out infants, eating and sleeping at in
-ervals. Confining the hen insures her
lowering them often, though the chicks
may go and come at will. After the
chicks are a few weeks old the mother
hen may be allowed to roam at will
with them. and with careful feeding of
grains, meat green food and grit, they
IRE likely to thrive to maturity. Later
han the month of March the chances
If successful raising of chicks are not
20 favorable. r
PIGEONS AS PETS.
Following this was an interesting ad- ]
lress by j. H. Craig, who spoke on
he breeding of fancy pigeons as pets. !.
The pigeon business for profit was
omething he was not familiar with |.
he believed that money was )
o be made in the breeding of squads
or market. His experience with
pigeons for the past thirty years was
old, the speaker relating some amusing
necdotes in the course of his remarks. =
A debate among the pigeon fanciers =
resent followed the address and vari-
us remedies for pigeon diseases We're
discussed.
At the Next meeting of the associa- :
ion, notice of which will be given, a J
lumber of fowls will be exhibited and :
cored by some of the members the :
Inject being to pOilt out to beginners n