| Show LOW GRADE FEEDS CAUSE FLOCK LOSS access to fertilized fields dangerous practice by PS dearstyne Dears tyce head of poultry do D vart ment north caronna Caroll ni cire WN service most of the dangers ot of food poisoning of chickens can be attributed to the ascot use of low grade materials la in home mixed feeds or allowing mashes to become damp and decompose feeds mixed from the best materials particularly ingredients known to be good chicken food will not poison the birds birds however may be poisoned pol by eating fertilizers or feeds which have come into contact with fertilizers fertilize rs hence a warning Is issued against permitting chickens access to freshly fertilized fields or to buildings where fertilizer Is stored many causes of high mortality are found in chilling overheating crowding poor sanitation and germ diseases and not so frequently in poisonous 0 us cods foods as some poultry men seem to think when bothered by a heavy loss of birds the should cheek check every possible cause for the high death rate then it if he cannot determine the cause he be should send several specimens of his bis flock to the poultry disease laboratory at the state college with the birds should be a careful description script lon of the trouble and the way he has been managing his flock there is little use tor for a to send a ready mixed mash to the state laboratory for testing to see whether it has a detrimental influence on chicks in the mixture the various is elements lose their identity and it would be almost impossible to tell which element it if any Is causing trouble the only practical way to test a feed Is to give it to chickens for some ome period of time tills this Is rather slow low and when alien done in the laboratory it Is also expensive |
