Show preventing ROUP IN COLD WEATHER poultry require feeds with vitamins A content sauce for the goose Is also sauce for the gander and some of the things which are healthful in the diet 0 the family ore equally so in the diet of the poultry hock carrots cod liver oil and green vegetables belong on the table of the flock as much as on that of the family according to P B zumbro extension specialist tor the ohio state university poultry husbandry department these foods carry A a preventative of nutritional roup a disease which often strikes flocks when they are housed during the winter and unable to obtain green teed on the grange says zumbro symptoms of nutritional roup include nasal discharges anaf swelling of the face which are characteristic of ordinary roup but the nutritional roup also causes lesions la the eyes and mouth post examination ally shows the kidneys to be very pale and marked with a network of white lines and a deposit of white material on the surfaces of the liver and heart Come discussion of the treat ment of nutritional roup and other als eases as well as of problems of cincu brooding feeding and management are included in a correspondence course given by the poultry husbandry department of the university feeding poultry flock for profit during year Pr epand by the united states department of does your poultry flock return a good profit over the cost of feed during the year it has been found that when laying hens are fed all the grain they will consume leghorns Leg horns and similar breeds eat from 70 to 80 pounds of grain a year breeds like the plymouth rock rhode island red and wyandotte eat from 80 to 95 pounds all breeds eat irom two to three pounds of oyster shells and about one pound of grit a year the average farm tan lays less than CO eggs a year principally from march to june the season of lowest prices yearly profits in eess depend largely on production in tall and winter according to the united states department of agriculture rations for laying stock should include scratch grains mashes meat feed green feed mineral feed grit and drink the scratch ration should be scattered through the litter in the poultry hruse so that the hens will get plenty of exercise crushed oyster shells are valuable for hens yew feeders of crushed oyster shell report an average of SO extra eggs a year from each hen according to other experienced poultry men this Is a modest estimate many who trop nest their hens and keep an accurate record of production find that the average Is higher it eggs are figured at three cents each that means 80 cents more in actual cash from each hen As the bird will eat only about three cents worth of oyster shell during the year alie net profit Is 87 cents multiply that by the number of acas in your flock and hae a tidy sum people wonder why doing such a little thing makes so big a difference alie answer Is simple ita plain chemistry turkeys easily picked if killed in right way for dry picking the turkeys arc usually hung by legs at a convenient height for killing the augu lar vein la cut by the single stroke of a sharp knife and the point of the knife Is then pushed through the roof of the mouth into the brain the last operation Is known as sticking and when properly done paralyzes the bird and loosens alie feathers so that they come out turkey feathers can bo removed more easily than can chicken feathers the proper bleeding and sticking being the most difficult part of the operation contented birds contented pullets will get into production early and will tend to keep up their production vi hen pullets are first brought in from the range they hae a tendency to be rather excitable until they become accustomed cus tomed lo 10 their new surroundings when a pen whistle or call softly or knock on the door so as to warn the birds of your approach this practice may help to get several additional eggs every day from the pullet flock ability to lay the ability to lay la inherited and thus depends more on breeding than on feeding but pullets should be ft ell developed in body before they start to lay if the pullets decem to mature too rapidly do not feed them wholly on grain to slow up their inclination to lay that checks la laying Is also apt to sunt permanently y the grimh of tho birds reed a mash along with scratch grain as it is more complete in protein aln ichak and vitamins |