OCR Text |
Show Poultry Facts X--X- Keep liens ridded of worms. The air In a chicken bouse should be continually moving at a fairly slow rate. The first three weeks of the life of a chick Is recognized as one of essential essen-tial Importance. Baby chicks will digest a crop full of mash in from two to two and a half hours and are then ready for another an-other feed. The breeding turkey should receive a good laying mash along with scratch grain. The turkeys should not he fed straight alfalfa meal or alfalfa steam meal because it is too bulky to be handled by their digestive systems. It is generally recognized by poultry poul-try disease specialists that chickens have remarkable resistance against most diseases, and the class of troubles trou-bles commonly spoken of as colds and roup is no exception to tlds statement. The first symptoms of colds among a flock are sneezing and loss of appetite ap-petite and activity by those infected. Liver troubles in hens are difiicult to treat, as they are seldom discovered discov-ered until the bird becomes sick and dies suddenly. I ! Hens don't need anil can't eat such feeds as corncobs and shucks. Save the corn-and cob meal for the cows. Give the liens whole com, or preferably prefer-ably cracked corn. They'll lay more eggs. |