The Delta independent., 1925-02-20

tOr natcnlng as IL Will spoil the
eggs. A second treatment may be
necessary in ten days or two weeks
after the first, and in very bad cases
other treatments may be required
The only rule is to do 1t as often as
needed. After a flock is once thor
oughly freed from lice no further
trouble will be had unless lice are
imported from other flocks. With
this in mind, why not. clean up the
flock and pens, and then never put
another bird with the flock until it
has been entirely freed from lice.
1t is no trouble to keep a flock
clean after it has once been cleaned.
The writer has not seen a louise on
his hens in four years and has never
had to treat them in that time.
White Diarrhoea.
Can you stand another handicap in
your poultry business. White diarr-
hoea is fast gaining a foot hold in
this state and wherever it becomes
prevalent serious loss will follow.
with the result that there Is little
chance for a profit from any flock
infected. Losses are confined prac-
tically to young chicks. The best in,
formation available indicates that
chicks from infected hens carry the
infection at birth and that very few
so infected ever live. II they do live
they become carriers of the disease.
Chicks are especially susceptible to
the disease during the first few days
and II they are not Matched with the
infection in their systems they quick
" contract il from contact with in
fected chicks There are two sourc.
es OF protection against the disease.
Flock owners Matching their own eggs
may have their flocks tested for the
infection and may eliminate any re-
actors. This test is made from blood
samples which may be sent to the
Agricultural college which makes the
test without cost and will furnish the
bottle for taking the blood samples.
The county agent or the project agri-
culturist will assist anyone in taking
samples II requested. This method
in connection with thorough sanitary
measures. will eventually clean in
.
the flock to be already clean. The
other method is to buy eggs or
chicks from no flock that has not
been shown by test to be free from
the disease To do otherwise is to
invite trouble and trouble generally
accepts such an invitation 1t is be-
lieved that white diarrhoea is not yet
prevalent on the Western Slope. 1t
IS always easier and cheaper 10 pre-,
vent trouble OF this kind than to re-
move It after II has become establish
ed. Protect the flock and your own
business against loss by testing or
buying only clean stock.
Select Your Breeding Pens Now.
II the breeding hens have not al
hand picked right away and separat-
ed from the rest OF the flock. 1t is
better to let them run out II they
possibly can as the exercise will re-
suit in better matches and stronger
chicks Ten hens for each mail bird
Is enough and may be too many.
Il Is better to hatch from older hens
than from pullets Pullets, even
though seemingly good. have not been
proved to be persistent layers so 1t
Is better to hatch from hens that
are known to have been good for at
least two laying seasons. Chicks
from such hens are generally strong.
er and eggs are more generally fer
tile
. ,s4l~ vt~ifh n Na.FNf
any selection means that eggs from
the poorest hens as well as from the
| better ones will be hatched and It is
said that n larger percentage OF the
eggs from poor layers viii hatch than
| from heavy layers II this is true
the tendency will be to decrease the
average egg production OF the flock
n the breeding hens are not carefully
selected. Average egg production in
this state is placed at 70 eggs per
| year which scarcely pays for the
| feed the average hen will eat $50
| eggs per hen per year is easily
possible. 80 good hens will eat less,
take less care and pay far better re
turns than 100 poor or average hens.
We can take our choice.
Hatch Early for Winter Production.
DO we want to get winter eggs
next winter II we do there Is just
one way TO 20 about It; that is to
get the pallets that are going TO lay
those winter eggs hatched In time
SO that they viii be ready to lay be-
! fore winter sets in. A late hatched
pullet IS not going to lay before the
| first OF March or later and never
will lay as many eggs even after she
starts as the bird that starts sooner,
Most OF the culls next fall will be
the late hatched hens.
Our best hens will lay until late in