Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-11-28 | Page 3 | Notes of the Poultry Yard

NOTES OF THE POULTRY YARD Good Remedy for Many Bowel Troi bles Found In Charcoal Bright Red Comb Indicates Health. (By C. S. MILLER.) Charcoal is an excellent corrective of the evils of injudicious over-feeding, and also is a good remedy in bowel bow-el troubles in poultry. Having wonderful won-derful absorbent powers, especially for gases, only a small quantity should be put in the feed hoppers at a time on account of its absorbent nature. It should be kept in a thoroughly dry vessel with a close fitting cover to exclude ex-clude the air. If the charcoal Is heated well before be-fore given to the poultry it will have a tendency to drive off impurities which may have been absorbed, and will be equal to fresh charcoal. Ducklings usually start to molt when eleven weeks of age, and it will require about six weeks for them to finish the process and get into good condition again. For that reason ducklings duck-lings should be marketed at ten weeks for after that they are more apt to lose weight than gain it. In turkey culture never use a gobbler gob-bler that is akin to the hens. Inbreeding In-breeding is the cause of much of the "bad luck',' in raising the young. Ginger, if fed to poultry for too long a time is apt to weaken the digestive di-gestive organs, while asafoetida and: