Show DAMY DAIRY AND PO POULTRY interesting INTE CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS view flow successful farmers farmen operate ahlf department of tile farm A reig few lalath as an to tb ILL a care ca r 9 of live LIT stock and ad poultry too pat fat to the farmers review one can hardly look over a poultry paper or the poultry department in a farm paper without seeing cautions against it over fat rat hens and yet it is almost aa common as lice and Js a really worse for you can fight and conquer lice but it if the hens get too fitt fat there la Is no remedy sate safe remedy but the market this was brought more forcibly to my notice by losing two large hens and the third was so BO tar far gone we killed and dissected her when opened the intestines egg bag and all the eggs she he had in process ot of growth were seemingly run together had bad grown fast to ether she was too a thing not common among hens we have a ve examined the heart and liver were also normal in size and of a healthy color another uncommon thing the abnormal growth was rather hard to the touch and ot of a cheesy look seemed also to have been deposited in layers and would have filled it quart measure at least she had bad no lice and her comb was a bright red for two days before we be headed her the she stood around rather moping and when made to stir almost dragged the ground had not much appetite and would go on the nest and strain as if 11 trying to pass in an egg in post mortem ex examinations ami nations we have previously held the abnormal growth always had more ot of the appearance ot of a hard bard cooked egg the yolk especially but that egg bound was waa the affliction she had Is beyond question follow the good advice ot of numerous writers to sell all old hens and keep the pullets it if this S a followed year after year there will very seldom be a case ol of egg bound 11 or over fat hens hena I 1 am positive her disease was brought on partially it not wholly by being too fat fat them ot of course before you sell but sell bell when they got get tat fat dont wait tor for a better price or perhaps enough will ilia die to more than balance the rise in price it if you get it to say nothing ot of the teed feed and bother well some say pullets wont sit as early in our experience we have proved that pullets will sit bit as early but you must get them to laying early and steady they are bound to want to sit when they get their laying out that there are occasional exceptions Is true but there are not many eggs from over fat tat hens will not hatch as well nor will the chicks be as strong but dont go to the other extreme and 0 tarve starve your hens strike the medium and try to manage so that the whole teed feed wont bo be corn from years end to years end the above applies wholly to heavy breeds and mediums as rocks dottes cochins and brahman Brah mas know nothing about the mediterranean classes W A clearwaters in farmers review |