Show LET DEATH RA ATE TE GREATER poultry News Dr nr BYRON ALDER Utah State ir ry Agricultural College farm operators rs might mightIly Ily expect that pullet mortality greater than that of hen lien I be s. s Greater culling rate can canDe be De anticipated in the pullet ci a especially If It culling has not L practiced strictly throughout hout season 1 oSt of the chickens thai that are arek arek tk k or lacking Jacking vigor Igor will drop out reduction during the first year Those that survive I be strong and healthy if it proper gement feeding schedules and andI andral ral 1 I care are adhered to Some et t flocks also h have ve physical or rUed defects that become ap- ap nt during that period The Tho see sec year hens are then select good upon which the operator rely t Is ts advisable ad to supply a good for tor growing pullets It has been od d by careful experimental work tho the crystallized arc are arcas areas as as good for grinding material he io o gizzards as the more moro i limestone produced In this area lao no of the experiments at college I grit was used and pared ed with limestone The birds getting limestone in the mash ever rever Some of the birds are loping eloping digestive troubles that are aro receiving any d I commercial starting mash do eed additional cod liver oil i oil oU is usually Included In the theIL h. h Then too when the chicks put out Into the sun there is 0 need of Including cod liver oil oila oilI oilin a I in the mash since the value i the the sun un is sufficient to take 1 of the birds' birds wants want for that vitamin Any operators have reported it t chickens t l in their flocks are areg areg areng ng g troubled with darkened combs hi Ii 1 means that something is ng nr g with the flock management managements is Js s not necessarily a a. definite of disease Digestive troubles might be the thee he Je e of the blackened combs Sev- Sev I 1 doses dons of at epsom salts will clear up the trouble if the dl- dl Live Uve passages are clogged As a aral ral rule there thero is less loss trouble pis his Ls kind If It there Is ample green greenI I kept before the chickens When to feed epsom salts sails 91 medicine should be given in lit mash the tho first thing In the ruing at the rate of one pound ch h chickens |