Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-17
CHICKEN RAISING
BY LIZZIE Q THOMAS
Roup, and IT'S Treatment

From the letters that are coming
to me about the various chicken
problems that is the subject for me
to consider this morning. This rainy
weather is bad for the poultry that
is in a good house and the sort that
in lodging leaks and must made in
filth is not the sort to produce big
and paying flocks of youngsters.
Roup is the first thing for us to
consider, it has SO many symptom
that one is safe to consider even a
mild cold reason enough to isolate
and begin to doctor the sufferer.
l know that there are many busy
mothers who cannot give much time
to their flocl1s, but is it not a fine
thing to begin right now to train
the little folks to help with the fam
lily business? And there is no branch
Of it that is more important than
the eggs and chickens. I know a
mother of eight that has from the
beginning let the "toddler" go with
her to see about the chickens and
the proudest moment of their lives
is when they can take an egg out
of the nest and take it to the house.
One little fellow had been taught to
tiptoe when the baby was being put
to sleep and "be CAREFUL meant to
him that he must tiptoe, so when he
was given his first egg to take to
the house and was told to be care
fellow walking as noiselessly as pos
sible. The next step in that home
is to teach them the difference in
the hens and for them to notice
where each one lays, in that way
there is not any need for trapnests.
a hen that was wrong about he eyes
that it had foam or bubbles all the
time, my advice is to put some per-
mangate of potash in jelly tumbler
or anything that will be deep enough
for the head to be submerged, fill
head in, let it stay there till the
bubbles come then you are sure the
medicine has gone all through the
head. 1 then give the fowl a piece
of carbolated vaseline as large as
marble, that carries off all infec-
ton. If the bowels are bad it is
well to put a teaspoonful of Epson
salts in a cup of water, add tea
spoonful of liniment, the sort that
is for internal use, and do not let
water.
Taken in time one can manage roup
but it is highly contagious and the
sick fowl must not stay with the
others, drinking out of the same
water is a sure way to spread the
Are you giving your hens any sort
of meat scraps? There is not much
in the average picking at this time
of year for them to find in the yards,
buttermilk is just as good.
Are you having trouble with your
hens, they do not feel inclined to set
as early as this and the early broilers
are the ones that pay, to say moth
ing of the early Matched pullets. A
small fifty or sixty-egg incubator
49,
good one, pay at least fifteen dol
lars or more for it. I have lost eggs
enough trying out the cheap ones to
stock q good-sized poultry plant. I
have halfway promised to try one
this summer to see if it is the incu-
chicks that is at fault. for the own
er has never had any success with
it.
Little chicks cannot be chilled and
that is where the incubator chicks
has to be handled very carefully. l
ship hicks that they must not open
the basket in a cold room nor let
them have any thing to eat till they
have had some fresh buttermilk,
then some fine crumbs Of egg bread
or chick fefed.
Take a good poultry journal, 1t
never pays any one to try to raise
hogs, COWS nor chickens without
taking a magazine on the same sub
ject None Of use know all about
any thing. so we can learn from
really well informed writers by pay
ing out a little money for maya
zine that is devoted to the subject.
Gather your eggs before they chill
and you will have better matches
They must be kept in a room of moe.
crate ternp erature and ten days il
long enoughg to risk them l some
times set them when two weeks old
but under hens, not in an incubator