Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-03-09

duction. Select chicks from hen
that have a good egg record. Brood
mess is not inherited. You shonl.
have hens that lay instead Of settin,
all the spring season.
One third or better one-hal
square foot per chick gives them thu
proper amount of room needed. A
house with 100 square feet of foo
space will house 800 or better 20t
chicks. A house with 120 square
feet Of floor space will house $50
| chicks, or better 24O chicks. A
house with $50 square feet Of floo1
space will house $40 chicks, or bet
ter $50 chicks. Crowding is one Of
the factors which causes a great
loss in baby chicks. This can be
prevented by avoiding chilling, OF
by constant temperature. Another
] way to keep from crowding is tc
have a wire floor so air can circu-
late evenly through the house and
under the chicks. The ration listed
below Is good starting feed to use
until the age of IL weeks: Ground
corn, 40 lbs.; ground oats, 10 lbs.
ground wheat, 25 lbs.; alfalfa leaf
meal 5 lbs; meat scraps, lbs;
dried milk, 10 lbs; salt, lb.; cod
liver oil, lb.
Sprinkle some of this feed on
sand or grit in pans and set before
the chicks for a short time, then
take away. Do this until they are
about three days old Then the
feed may be left before them all the
time. At IL weeks OF age put out
another feeder with cracked corn
and wheat in it, or scratch feed
may be fed on floor. At IL weeks
OF age you can take off six pounds
of dried milk and feed four pounds.
Where you have liquid milk to feed.
you can leave out the dried milk.
Feed alfalfa leaf meal for vitamin
A. II you don't have any yellow
corn to feed, increase the amount of
alfalfa leaf meal feed. At housing
time put the pullets in properly
made, up-to-date poultry house, and
feed laying ration.
Coccidiosis is caused by para
site organism called coccidia. To
prevent this keep old hens and
chicks separate 1t is we'll to have
on ground or wire porches and to be
sanitary about caring for the
chicks. If l had coccidiosis in my
flock l would remove all infected
birds and burn them. / would feed
good feeds and plenty OF milk.
There is no sure way of curing it.
Chicks pick up grass and other
things that have the eggs of round
worms and tape worms on them.
The chicks eat them and they hatch
in their body. Giving certain worm
capsules will cure the infested bird.
Cleanliness should be practiced
around the lot or yard which the
disease germs and other filthy dirt,
and should contain a good grass for
the poultry, such as alfalfa.
Sheep-By Kaufman
The subject on sheep was some
what different this year from last
year This subject needs much
study and needs to be put into prac-
tice to raise sheep successfully. We
studied, this year, about the para
sites and diseases of sheep, and Mr..
Kaufman also made a post-mortem
of a diseased sheep. We first looked
at the outside appearance of the
sheep and found it to be pale
around the eyes, nose, and inside
the lips. The sheep was weak and
staggery and in a general rundown
condition. The first step taken to-
ward killing the sheep was sticking
it in the throat with knife and
letting it bleed to death. Next the
head was cut off and skinned and
cut length-wise up the nasal canal
to see if any grub in the head were
present, but none were found. Only
one side of the nasal canal was cut
open because Mr.. Kaufman wanted
tH show us the different places to
look for different parasites and dis
eases of sheep. Then the stomach
was cut open and the internal or
gans were taken out. The lungs
were examined to see if any lung
worms could be found, but none
were seen. The lungs looked as If
they were in good healthy condi-
ton.
The liver was cut open in differ
ent places to see if there were any
ent. The liver appears rotten when
the worms are in the liver. Another
way to see il there are either any
worms or liverfluke in the sheep, is
to take the bile loose from the liver
and let it run out, and if either of
these are present they will come out
with the bile. Neither the small
worms nor the liverfluke were found
by either test.
The stomach of the fourth sheep
was cut open in search for stomach
worms, but due to the fact that this
sheep had been given worm treat
ment to show the morning class how
it was done, the worms were found
in the sheep, but they were dead.
The worms range in length from
three-fourths and one and one-fourth
inch, and are about the size of a
pin. The stomach worms attach
themselves to the walls of the in
testines and suck their nourishment
nh a hn11nyv tooth from the
sheep. The worm also gives off a
poisonous toxin which enters the
blood streams. The worms attached
to the intestines make an irritation,
and if enough worms are present
they interfere with the digestion in