Show 1 J j 1 HOCK MALADY FROM TOO MUCH MINERAL Leave Mixture Out of Ration Advises n 11 fly Dr I f I N r-ew r w om Veterinary ll t Colorado l 1 U Ml Service loun loung chickens and turbe turkeys s to In Inmany many sections e bate been affected ith n a condition kno known knon n as hock disease which can cnn be corrected by leusing mineral mineraI mL mixtures tures out of the ration mixtures should be fed Cell separately and not placed In the mush to present pre ent the trouble This malady made Its appearance among brooder chicks and especially It now appears quite definitely to be Le due to the addition of too much mineral minerai In the ration It has been reproduced by the nil ad dilion of some of the so o called ruled bal balanced mineral minerai mixtures After Arter an nn affected chic chick gets to be ben bea ben n a few weeks old Its legs become bo bowed cd outward out until they will no longer support the weight sleight eIght of Its Loll hod The chick then gets around by walking on Its hocks The hocks become enlarged and the ten tendon tendon tendon don slips to one side In brief the mineral e hose hl often orten been overdone o In se ser eral commercial mineral minerai mixtures on the market mart there Is a n little of almost every e ery 1 i Ind of mineral many of which are arc not needed In the pro of healthy ens and tur turkey key keys Ie s c sAs As a matter of fact most pout poul poultry poultry try feed feeds contain minerals themselves Whenever hene er there Is n a alack alack lack of mineral mIneraI In the feeds It can be easily supplied 0 ster shell and bone meal w will supply all that thatis thatIs Is hid likely to be needed |