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Show PoultryNotes Let the chicks fast for 48 hours after leaving the shell. A dead chick is valueless, but & sick one is worse than that. Many poultry houses are merely poor roosting rooms. The young turkey, to do well, must have plenty of exercise. To thrive best, fowls need plenty of bulky food as well as grain. Corn makes fat and heat. Oats, wheat, bran and middlings make eggs. The reason for unprofitable hens is often not so far away as the hen house. Baled oats make fine straw for scratch pens. Feed all grain in a deep litter. It's a wise poultryman that can tell from tie cackle of a hen whether she has laid or lied. No man would try to run a corn jheller with as little attention as some people give their incubator. Cold storage men claim that brown eggs, being heavier and thicker, preserve pre-serve hotter than white shelled ones. Fresh air and clean drinking water are easy to supply and there is plenty of both in the well regulated poultry plant. You cannot mako money raising little chickens unless you aro willing to give thorn careful and painstaking iLUntlon. |