The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1908-01-18
POULTRY.
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constructed so that the hen can get
her head in, thus decreasing the waste
of her food. In this selffeeder the
MONDAY meal, consisting Of a mix
ture of wheat bran mash, or clover or
alfalfa leaves, used alternately, and
middlilgs and meat scraps or waste
from the table can be put. The morn
ing meal can be made of wheat screen
ings with @ light addition of oats,
me- rye, scattered on the litter
Poultry must have exercise. We say
this with emphasis. To give them
sufficient, in addition to the above,
lheads OF cabbage mangolds or beets
may be suspended so they will have
to jump to reach them. We have al
ready given the MONDAY meal. For
this evening plain corn is both good
and convenient, and it should be scat
tered over the litter. Feed is costly
and dangerous.
During the winter when it is mild
the hen should have the run of yard
or the range of the farm. Blue grass,
wheat and rye at such times furnish
her cheap sdcculent food and sufficient
exercise for best results. Repeating,
don't let her run out when there is
snow on the ground and the tempera-
ture is below twenty. In the above we
have outlined a building, feeds and APP
Ipurtenances thereto from the winter
egg point of view which, if followed,
will give a profit of one dollar peri
year for each hen kept. If you are
keeping them for meat your build
ing need not be enclosed on the south
side, or at least three feet below the
plates on a level with the dropping
floor. You will need no separate
roosting or scratching rooms. Keep
but one breed. Then you have uni
formity in in all respects A few eggs
and birds can be sold each year for
settlers and breeders at an advance
over the market price. For up-to-
date broilers and old-time friers keep
an early maturing breed. You want
feathers first, meat afterwards.
Instead of mixing your different
breeds change your males each year.
A good way to begin is to get four
or five settings of eggs from that many
reliable breeders. A good start is
half the finish. For eggs use oaly the
pullets and yearlings-two and three
year-olds as rule are Improbable.
Utilize them as mother hens. Don't
icy cheap" incubator. Don't buy
one at all unless you can attend tol
all the minutia. Have room not too
large and where the temperature does
not vary more than two or three de-
grees regardless of the weather out
side.
Don't feed the chicks anything until
they are from thirty to thirty-six hours
old. The white of the egg is repre-
scented by the body of the chick. What
of the yolk? 1t has been the food OF
the germ since incubation began, and
now of the young chick until it is all
absorbed. Give them clean, fine sand
few hours before you give them any
food. The sand is their teeth and the
teeth must be in place before they are
fed any digestible substance. Pin
head rolled oats, moistened stale
bread or oat meal is a good ration.
Either of these may be fed continu-
ously for three or four days, not for
getting the sand until they are fully
feathered out. Equal parts of corn
meal and shipstuff, thoroughly mixed
and baked. If bowel trouble appears,
supply them with cracked corn, wheat,
meat meal and blood meal and their
digestion will not be impaired.
We have not said anything about
breeders; they are a valuable adjunct
when properly managed. With both
young and old hens sanitation must
not be neglected. They must not be
kept in a damp, overwarm or cold
room. A dry, equal temperature will
beat special foods and nostrums. The
good results of the skeletonized poul-
try house in Kentucky have been On
account of its ideal sanitation. The
ideal poultry of the future for Ken
lucky will be a combination of the
skeletonized and the up-to-date perches
attached to the winter house.
Gapes in young and adult fowls are
produced by the presence in the wind
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