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Show Select Only Vigorous Parents for Breeders As a general rule any young bird of either sex that has been sick and out of condition should be rejected from the breeding pen. Only healthy, vigorous vig-orous fowls can be expected to be profitable, prof-itable, and there is no more necessary measure for securing such vigor than breeding only from vigorous parenls. However, the occurrence of some slight diarrhoeal trouble In growing chicks, due quite possibly to injudicious feeding, feed-ing, need not necessarily condemn it. If the trouble is evidently fully recovered recov-ered from and the chick develops fully into a healthy Individual. Suspicion should rest upon the unfortunate bird, however, and it should definitely show that it has not been Injured by sickness sick-ness before it Is chosen to enter a breeding pen. Corn is the most Important fattening fatten-ing grain, but it may be mixed, ground into meal, with such foods as boiled potatoes and table scraps to cheapen the cost of fattening a bird for the table. ta-ble. Rural New Yorker. |
