Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-07 | Page 12 | Range Disease of Hens Costly

S RANGE DISEASE ASE Il OF HENS COSTLY S I Poultry News I V Range ge paralysis a laying laing hen disease dis V ease that has caused considerable loss V 1 V to intermountain operators during duringS S the last two years is contracted b by V pullets shortly after they have been first allowed on open range University o of Idaho Idah extension exten exten- V ion sion said seid in a reportS report released recently S S The malady is h first made manifest V by b- bloss loss of control o of wings and legs legsby legsby V by the chickens Blindness also isI is isa isa V a symptom V VI I 1 Range paralysis can be controlled t I V by eliminating the infected hens im immediately I V S A mediately upon appearance of or the V V disease Professor Moore re said The TheS V V bodies must be burned Young pullets pul pulA S 5 5 lets should be supplied with clean V S dry range during developing periods and at brooding time l. l V Professor Moore point pointed to better L' L V prices during the next six egg gg r r j S months The situation of markets beyond beyond be I yond that time however is is uncertain uncertain I tam tain and will be controlled largely largel by conditions in the corn corn belt where 50 per cent of the nations nation's poultry I V is raised he added 11 V The extension urged V feeding of oC chicks with cod liver oilI oil I 7 S s scratch rakh green feed whole wheat and V cracked corn The young oung birds must V be b protected at all times irom ironi drafts S and uncomfortable conditions in the theS S V brooder house he said V I. I germs develop more V V y rapidly during the warm days das of Vj V early spring and summer The trouble trou V ble spreads rapidly in pens that have haveS S not been equipped with wire flooring floor floor- V V ing to allow the moisture to dry rap rap- S S idly Chicks should be kept from J ranges where mature malure chickens have V V t V been allowed to roam unless the soil t. t V V has been thoroughly plowed Use of V specially recommended sprays has V. V fi also been successful in curbing spread V I. 35 f of f V j r Poultry Hints 1 S. S Incorrect hat temperatures and inadequate inV in- in V V adequate adequate- evaporation e aft after r V l tion is often ollen responsible for unab'S unab- unab yolk The chicks may fail to toS sar S 'S S digest the egg yolk even after being V hatched because c of a chill or overheated overheated over- over fV heated period V i- i a a r S V Duck and goose eggs can be beV V I hatched with reasonable results inV in V V incubators at similar temperatures as chicks If a small incubator is being beingS j S V used however tha th duck and geese S S eggs should be allowed to cool V V slightly after the tenth da day These f S eggs however r d demand d mand more mois moisture mois ture than chick chicken V n eggs I V f C V A Infertile eggs deteriorate rapidly rapid I i S V V In warm temperatures the same as asi i V V fertile eggs They must then b- b gath gath- S V cred oft oftener ner during spring and sumS summer sum sum- t S V mer months than during the winter 1 V Ji I C C V Poultry consumption in the early V part of 1935 has given way to greater S. S d demands m for eggs and meat H H. E E. o Shackelton director of operations Pacific Egg Producers' Producers Coop Inc has reported Higher meat prices will V cause a shift by the consumer from t V meat to eggs he said