Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-07

will not scrap or fight and can be fed
more easily for the market
The sexes are about even in a hatch
There will be about the same number
Of cockerels and pullets. The pullets
we want for egg production and the
cockerels to be fattened for market,
only keeping out few necessary for
breeding purposes.
The sooner the cOckerels can be
turned off the better, first because that
gives the pullets more room and sec
ondly, it lessons the work and the feed
bill to get rid of the youngsters. Third
ly, they will bring per weight more
whilst young broilers than when they
are large enough for roasters
By my advice the successful man of
whom | have written sold off his sur
plus cockerels at a week old to a
broiler raiser and found he made bet
ter money selling at 10 cents each
than by keeping them on. Personally,
as I was raising for the fancy, for
exhibition as well as for breeders |
could not Gull out and get rid of my
cockerels at very early age, as l
might sell off a prospective and val
liable prize winner l usually had
to keep the cockerels till three or six
months of age to watch their develop
ment, but 1 always separated them
then at three months if the market
price and the demand was good | fat
tened and sold or | caponiZed. l was
guided in this by the demand.
Before putting up for fattening ]
would Gull very closely. All of my
chicks were marked at birth by small
lunch hole in the web of the foot.
whilst some special matings of new
blood from expensive eggs, raised By
hens, had an additional leg brand of
scarlet or other worsted braid sewed
on the leg. The braid did not bind
too closely and stretched as the bird
grew, and was replaced at or before
maturity by metal legband.
This careful marking was a great
assistance at culling time, for bv this
knew the pedigree of each chick and
if in any way a chick did not come
up to the standard of its parents at an
early date the market was the place
for him.
However, although to Gull closely
and often was my rule, it was not al
ways possible to foresee how the birds
would develop until they were almost
matured, or from nine to twelve
months old. when if they did not come
up to my expectation they were con-
demned to the market.
Summer work with the little chicks
means keeping them clean from lice
and mites and f1eas. BY not allowing
them to run with the older fowls and
by keeping their houses and runs
clean.
Give them plenty of green food. I
could never manage to overfeed with
green alfalfa, lettuce, clover or cab
bage and 1 do not think it possible to
overfeed them. OF course green clover
or alfalfa can be left in a heap, as
one man did A friend said: "Why.
that heap of lawn clippings will heat"
what harm will that do?" he asked.
"You will soon see," was the curt re-
ioinder of his visitor, who told me of
it, In a short time I had an appeal
ing letter from him. His fowls were
sick, when he gave them food they
would not eat it, looked at it, backed
away, tumbled over, acted either silly
or sleepy, walked around like they
were drunk. He thought the fowls
stitutions. He was feeding them just
mer work about ruined that flock and
that man gave up the poultry business,
declaring it fraud.
Green clover, alfalfa or any vege-
table will not give, but will prevent
diarreha. Diarrhea is caused by meat,
animal food, anything putrid or
DIV vegetables which give it. Never
the ground in the chicken yard. You
will soon have vile smelling. un-
healthy place and diseases of all kinds.
Dig a hole and bury all that you can
not chop up.
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