Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-06-14
HI NTS ON SUMNER
CARE OF POULTRY
BY II. W. Sanborn, Extension Poultry
Husbandman or Utah Agri-
cultural College

Take special care during the warm
months of summer to keep the hens
houses and chicken coops free from
mites, and hens and chickens free
from lice. They do very much better.
Roosts and chicken coops may be rid
Of mites by thoroughly painting them
with crude oil. Good dust baths for
the hens and use of lice pouders or
Blue Ointment will keep down the
lice on the hens and chickens For de-
tailed instructions send for Govern
ment bulletin number sol. (Lice and
Mites on Poultry.) Clean the houses
and coops often, and spray the dis
enfectant to keep them sanitary, thus
keepin the hen and chickens healthy
and vigorous. A two per cent solution
of any of the coal tar products like
Ienoleum, Creolin and the like make
an excellent spray
Keep the chickens growing by
proper and sufficient feed that they
may mature as quickly as possible.
The pullets will then lay that much
earlier, when eggs are highest and
largest returns are possible. A good
growing mash for chicks can be
made as follows:
10 parts bran
3 parts barley chop
parts corn chop
4 parts beef scrap
1t should be kept before them all
the time in self-feeding hoppers. BE
sure to keep up the production of beef
scrap in this mixture unless skim
milk is accessible to the chickens all
the time.
Skim milk or beef scrap is neces-
sary for the most rapid growth. Feed
"A scratch grain literally at night
that the chicks may fill their crops
before retiring and have good sup
ply of food to digest during the night.
Where possible we urge that the
growing chicks be furnished free
range and, if possible, where shade
is available. Exercise, green food and
cool place during the day tend to
promote vigorous and rapid growth
Eggs should be preserved in water
glass while they are cheep for winter
use when eggs are highest in price
If this is properly done you will have
good, cheep eggs to use and you can
market your fresh eggs during this
time when prices are very high.
About fifteen dozen eggs should be
preserved for each adult member of
the family Use them literally. Use
more poultry and eggs in the home
to save more beef and pork for our
armies.
Gull all chicks or chicks that do not
mature rapidly, using them on the
table or marketing them. They will
never make profitable egg pro-
ducers. Keep all good, vigorous health
pullets and year old hens for egg
production the comming winter. All
eggs it is possible to produce are GO
ing to be needed and they will bring
good prices.
Sell or can all male birds, or use the
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those that will be wanted as breeders
another season. Sell all hens two
years old and over as they begin
moulting this summer and fall. Keep
them for egg production until that
time They will be profitable until
they start to moult. Confine the males
from the laying hens and produce in
fertile eggs They keep better, and
are more satisfactory. Gather the
eggs twice daily. Keep them in a
cool place and market them as often
as possible.
Let us one and all give our poultry
little better care and attention and
practice better poultry culture this
year than ever before that we may
obtain much larger production OF
eggs per hen and larger net returns tc
ourselves. If we will only do this we
will gain new courage and forge
ahead rapidly another year and NOR,
fully meet our national need and
our Governments appeal in this tn,