Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-10
AdU1;ce
From
the
PouLt'..y
Doctor

large or a small scale. Pure water
and wholesome feed are Of course prime
requisites. OF the first DR. Cary says
Water-The water supply for poul-
try should be the very best Fresh wa
ter in clean uncontaminated vessels
should be kept constantly within reach
OF the chickens, or all kinds Of poultry
especially during the hot weather. Good
well water Is preferable to running sur
face water. Protected earthenware
vessels or any form of water vessel
should be so constructed that 1t can be
cleaned in fact. it should be cleaned
daily with boiling hot water.
The relation Of the feed TO health is
thus explained
Feed-The feed is responsible for the
health. growth and flesh OF poultry
Young chicks are often overfed and US
ually fed in filthy places or in unclean
troughs or vessels. More young chicks
die from overlooking and sour, ferment-
ing, decomposing feed than from any
other cause, Especially is this true
where mashes or liquid or moist feed is
used. Some poultrymen use milk with
bread or coarse meal in It. Mix Is
good food. but If given to chickens it
must be fresh or it should be boiled or
cooked with the bread or meal In It
and fed AS soon as sufficiently cooled
Always feed 1t In clean vessels. not in
too large quantities, and never leave
the excess to sour. In feeding milk and
all forms OF moist feeds to chickens be
sure to thoroughly clean and boil or
scald out the feeding vessels once or
twice per day during hot weather. Look
well to the chick feeds. Many of them
are made of refuse corn, wheat, sor-
ghum, and other grains. AS rule It is
best to make your own mixed grain
feeds, and then you will know the quail
ity of each grain ingredient and will not
be compelled to pay grain prices for
the heavy grit that is so plentiful in the
average mixed checker feed 1t is
cheapest and safest and best for the
health and growth of the chickens or
other fowls to buy the separate grains
and the grit and do your own mixing.
The arrangement and management of
the poultry houses and yards are shown
to have a most important bearing upon
the health of the occupants.
Arrangement and management OF
houses, yards, etc, The chicken houses
should be separated from all other
buildings, and all the sides should be
of lattice work or quite open during the
sumemr The north, east and west may
be closed during late fall and winter
The floors. roosts, and nests should be
so arranged as to be readily removed,
cleaned, and disinfected. Portable or
movable chicken houses are useful If
so built that they viii not come to
pieces when moved. In cases Of infec-
ton with disease germs, or of infesta-
ton with mites intestinal parasites,
lice, etc. 1t makes the work of disin-
lection and eradication of parasites
more easily and quickly and permanent
ly done if the house can be quickly
moved to a new uninfected locality.
Most chicken coops are too close, too
heavy, and too inconvenient to clean.
Some one shuld invent a knock down"
broodlng coop that can be cleaned read
lily, and one that viii not easily break,
and retain frmness and so4idity when
set up.
The yards and runs are usually too
small and insufficient in number Poul-
trymen can greatly lessen their work by
having large yard or runs and many OF
them.