Show efm poultry notes dirty eggs are costly bareback bare back chicks may be the result of crowding in the brooder house it if only the very best mates males are saved to head next years Y ears flock they will contribute to its improvement the average ration of feed and water that is used for hens contains only about 15 per cent of the mineral needed by the nen for eggshell egg shell alone 4 7 prevent in every way possible the carrying of infection irom mature fowls and from contaminated ground to the young chicks keep young and old stock in separate enclosures E L burnett 0 of cornell university insists that roup L not a contagious disease and that where it Is ennd there Is usually some unfavorable condition which Is indirectly responsible tor for il it oyster shell Is probably the best beit source of lime for poultry all breeds of poultry with white ear lobes produce white shelled eggs this includes leghorns Leg horns An conas Alln and all breeds of poultry that have red ear lobes produce brown or tinted shell eggs this includes Inci udes all plymouth rocks hockst Wyan dottes rhode island reds brahman and long lang sloans to allow the excrement to remain in the chicken house Is to cause the air to become vitiated and unhealthy it chaid he be a J ally duty to clean it when a chic meets one in the morning on opening the door of the poultry house it Is a signal that all la Is not as it ought to be chicks hatched td after the first of alay abay are usually a boor poor it it Is especially true of the slower nia ma luring heavy breeds breeda at this season the paras parasites ites of the cli chicken felien have had an opportunity to multiply |