Show P Y qt VL M POULTRY DISEASE PROVING SERIOUS range paralysis reported in many sections by 0 1 L ferguson extension specialist in poultry husbandry ohio state university service A disease of poultry its cause un known Is exacting an increasingly increasing y heavy toll in farm flocks in many sec see eions the disease Is known as ran range P paralysis and may become evident evident when the chicks are about fourteen weeks old chickens appear to be susceptible to the disease until they are eighteen months old mortality due to the disease has been found to vary from 5 to 60 per cent in a number of flocks and the first symptoms are lameness or pa in one or both legs blindness and the drooping of one or both wings although the disease has become known as range paralysis pira lysis it Is found to occur also among chicks raised in confinement away from the poultry range until a means of prevention of the disease Is known flocks found tible to it should be treated as if the flock were contagiously infected strict sanitation avoidance of over crowding of the young chickens raising of chicks in small units and segregation from old hens Is recommended when the disease becomes serious keep over as many of the older birds of the flock as possible for there are no known cases where the disease occurred after the birds were eighteen months old certain families of chickens seem to be resistant to the disease value of good hen Is found in egg record while all hens cannot be expected to lay as many eggs as a few of the most outstanding individuals ne less the exceptional individuals show the possibility of improvement so it Is woith while to occasionally call at to some of the better records 0 A barton of the poultry depart ment of the north dakota experiment station reports the record made by a single rhode island hen in a two year period this hen produced eggs in two years or eggs the first year and the second year lils hen consumed ISO pounds of teed feed during the two years or only about twice as much muth feed as the weight of the eggs produced the market value of the eggs was 10 for the two years while the feed cost was 2 in other words this hen made a gross profit above feed cost of 4 per year her average feed consumption was about four pounds tor for each dozen eggs produced thus her feed cost was less than 5 cents per dozen eggs figures of this sort should enczur age poultry producers to keep egg rec and continue breeding from their most precious hens mated with males from high producing stock Wall wallaces wees farmer colds and roup colds and roup in chickens are frequently present an outbreak of these diseases cannot always be prevented therefore one has to resort occasion ally to individual treatment apply ing an ointment to the head face comb and wattles of the affected chick ens Is often recommended such an ointment may be made as follows light ounces of olive oil one ounce of gum camphor oae one ounce of car bolic acid in making this ointment the olive oil Is heated and the gum camphor dis solved in same the mix mixture tiAre Is per to cool before adding the car bol v c acid unless the mixture Is cool at the same time the carbolic car bolle acid Is added an explosion will occur to be bate safe it is usually desirable t have the druggist make the ointment rhe ointment may be applied every second or third day until it is no long er needed in severe cases it Is desir able to place a small quantity atthe ointment in the opening in the root roof of the mouth at thy the time the head and face are massaged misso irl iri farmer cater to appetites when birds are out of condition feed should be given according to their appetites when they regain their health and appetites the regular feeds and schedule of feeding can be grad bally resumed even with layers in the prime of condition it pays to cater to their appetites as no two flocks are likely to have the same tastes one flock will prefer one kind of grain or mash and another will prefer something else it pas to give them what they want crossbreeding cross breeding poultry raisers who have stock of the lighter weight breeds and wish to produce table birds often find it profit able to cross some of their hens with males of heavier breeds in this way they may increase the wel weight of the chickens from one to two pounds each if their own breeds are very heavy layers the cross bred pullets will ably not equal them but will still prove profitable layers through the winter and spring there Is a chance the crossbred cross bred pullets will be better |