The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-03-17
Care and Feeding of Poultry.

AS early hatched pullets usually
make the best Of winter layers. It is
well to set the incubators as early in
the season as we can get fertile eggs
with which to Eli them, if we feel sure
we can provide comfortable quarters
Tor the chicks after they are hatched.
This is where the trouble comes in on
the average farm. Outdoor brooders
are very troublesome during very Sc
we're or very windy weather and many
OF us have the poultry houses all full
OF mature stock. so can scarcely find
place for the little chicks until the
weather is warmer. The very early
Matched chick has at least one adyan-
tage over his later hatched brother.
He does not have the cape worm to
contend with, or IL he does it is not
until he has more strength with which
10 make the fight for life. Last
spring we tried the carbolic acid
treatment for gapes, but met with
only partial success, as after receiv-
ing the treatment the chicks soon he
gan to cape again. Whether this
was caused by getting fresh supply
or worms, or by the old ones coming
TO life, We were unable to ascertain.
In treating the chicks We placed them
In box with a screen wire partition
| through the middle. On the other
side of the partition from the chicks
we put a redhot iron. On this a few
urops OF acid. The chicks were quick
ly covered and allowed to breathe
acid fumes for a short time. We
were SO afraid of killing the chicks
that perhaps We did not submit them
10 the treatment for long enough
time. A much more effective remedy
Tor gapes here has been the removal
OF the worms from the chicks wind
| pipe with blue grass head. The best
time to perform this operation is early
In the morning before the chicks are
led. A friend tells me he removed
cape worms from turkeys in the same
way, but as l raise my turkeys with
turkey mothers and they take them
| away from the quarters of other poul-
try, We have no gapes among ou-
turkeys. Our goslings, however
| showed signs of being affected with
cape worms. Our later hatched
chicks last spring were moved out
into a field where no poultry had
| heretofore been quartered. They were
Tree from Sapes, but many were lost.
we suppose. by the preying of wild
Vermin. When the weather begins to
get cool in the fall we begin remov-
Ing our brood coops, little distance
at time, to the neighborhood of our
winter colony houses, so by the time
1t is really cold weather We have the
| chickens roosting right at the doors
OF their winter homes; then 1t is but
a small task to drive them in at roost-
Ing time and avoid the scare we would
otherwise be forced to give them. In
FEEDING young poultry we always feed
hrst for frame. For this we use clab-
Der cheese, ground oats and wheat
| with only a small portion of corn.
Later, II we desire to fatten, we use
more corn. We feed some whole
: corn to our poultry during the winter
months for the sake of the warmth il
produces, but to use cracked corn as
the sole feed for young stock. as
some do, l believe this to be wrong,
though IL mixed with clabber milk
and soda and baked into Johnny cake
1t does fairly well as a feed for yonng
STOCK, as the milk helps to make it a
| more balanced ration. One very es-
sentlal thing in raising poultry is TO
keep the young birds, as well as the
old stock, free from lice The young
chicks should be looked over care
1ully for lice. Some seasons they
seem to be more plentiful on certain
parts OF the body. season or SO
ago l remember finding so many of
these little blood suckers on the
throats of our small chicks: other sea-
sons l would not find them under the
throat, but on some different part
OF the body. We find olive oil to be
the most useful remedy we have vet
tried for lice on young chicks. We
nave neighbor who practices dipping
mis- mature fowls. He uses ordinary
sheep dip. He does this work on a
very warm day, and claims for it
much success. / do not take much
STOCK in the practice. as it seems it
would cause quite a shock to the
birds and would seem almost cruel.
1t seems likely to suppose that a dip
or this kind would cause laying hens
TO stop for some time, at least. The
only way a success can be had with
the raising of poultry Is to feed right
care for them right and house them
right.-C. A. Umoselle.
cSmall Grain For Sheen.