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Show HARMFUL HABITS IN THE POULTRY FLOCK Fowls Will Pull Each Other'? Feathers and Sometimes Pick Holes. (By C. S. ANDERSON, Colorado Agricut tural College, Fort Collins, Colo.) Did your chickens ever turn cannibal? canni-bal? Many a poultryman has discovered discov-ered old biddy denuded of feathers and was at a loss to account for her sudden lack of modesty. The feathers were pulled out by her pen mates, and often the pin feathers were picked pick-ed out as fast as they appeared. When this vice becomes established, chickens chick-ens will go so far as to plok holes In one another, and woe unto the bird on whose body the blood is once started! Toe picking is a kindred evi), but only among young chicks. They like the taste of blood and an injured toe is a source of attraction. Close confinement and unbalanced rations are the usual causes of such vices. Both grown fowls and young chicks need green food, meat food and grit, and if these are provided, along with plenty of exercise, the conditions favorable for the formation forma-tion of the above habits will not be present. The best plan is to kill the con firmed feather pullers that go wild at the sight and taste of blood. In flocks kept under close confinement, the male birds are liable to have their neck feathers pulled. It will be found beneficial to rub the naked necks ol such victims with carbolated vaseline |