Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-22
Questions of Interest to Poultry
RaiserS

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| Dear Mrs. Thomas: ! have been
| reading your articles in The Journal
for fourteen years, and in fact used
! to occasionally send in a letter to
| Our Household, but now / am a
| farmers wife and always too busy, it
seems, to write anything but bust
ness letters and an occasional letter
| to some of my brothers or sisters.
I have developed into a chicken
| crank within the last few months,
| though l have always, even when a
| small girl, loved to raise chickens.
! Of course you have guessed that 1
am coming to you with my chicken
troubles, and so here are the ques-
tons 1 would like advice on:
| l am treating my hens for scaly
! legs. How can [ keep them free from
this trouble when once cured, and
| also keep the young ones from haV
| ing it?
| have a few Partridge Plymouth
| Rock chickens Ozark brOWn) that |
am thinking of entering in a small
fair near us. Should they be washed
just the same as white fowls?
Some of my chickens seem to have
colds, and 7 have been treating them
mended in one of your articles, but
part of the treatment, which ] had
clipped out of the paper, got lost, so
if it is not asking too much, would
be glad to have it repeated What
do you think of "Kress Dip No. l"
used in the drinking water, as adj
vised by the manufacturers?
have fine March-hatched
Cockerel from my best laying hen.
Would you advise breeding him back
to the mother hen, or do you think
it best to get a young rooster from
the, same place I got the old ones
to run with my hens? An old
poultryman of more than score of
years experience told me to use the
cockerel | raised, but from what |
read l am afraid the offspring would
be weakly because of such close kin
of the parents. OF course this is
done in line breeding, as I under
stand it, but I am only wanting to
raise healthy, fast growing chicks
that will make good layers. My ia
ther sent me my original stock, and
a new cockerel from him would not
cost so much. Please advise me.
Tell me, please, how long is a male
bird known as a CoCkerel. or in other
words at what age are they termed
cocks? When hens? When pullets?
Yours sincerely,
MARTHA.
I have never used kreso, as it
has been so much easier to buy
stock dip from the Rawleigh or
Watkins agent, and it can be used
as effectively, nor have heard an
opinion on it. 1 used black oil, or
fn,-
scaly legs, and it must be a bad,
long continued case to need more
than one treatment. Stand the
fowl UP in an old pan, or on a paper
and dip 81 tooth brush in the oil,
scrub the legs well, see that the OIL
gets under the scales. I helped one
woman with some that bled, as the
mites were so bad, but the oil heal
ed the places. It took two appliCa-
| lions FOR that case, for the scales
| had made a crust like an oyster
shell.
The day YOU treat your poultry
| for scaly leg paint your roosts with
| the mixture I recommended last
week, soak the roosts thoroughly,
| for they are sure to be infested with
! the mites that cause the disease.
| One must be careful about using any
sort of oil on the laying hens, a very
| little would spoil an egg.
This is the time of year to watch
the noses of your fowls and if one
is shifting or the nose is running
dip the head in the solution of per-
manganate of potash as I have so
often advised. I bought a fourth
of pound last week. I don't keep
it in the water all the time, but