| Show sevier agricultural A 9 cultural ri agent gives timely farm facts by S R BOSWELL county agent richfield room federal phones and milking cows before calving Is harmful there is some difference of opinion as to whether the cow should be milked before calving or not but the overwhelming evidence on the subject is against the practice nature has provided a nerve correlation between milk secretion in the udder and the birth of the calf this should not be thrown out of balance cows that have been milked before freshening have had parturition delayed as much as a week and this usually results in weaker efforts and more trouble in delivery of the calf calving is a perfectly natural process but the cow should be kept quiet and her milk flow stimulated as little as possible until she has recovered f from rom the drain on her system dogs are especially annoying and readily anger the cow they should never be permitted near the calving stall A warm mash is relished by a cow after freshening and may be readily made by pouring boiling water over three or four quarts of bran warm water or water with the chill removed is appreciated i abed by bv the cow for two or three days and nd hastens the bringing of her system back to normal control of chicken use by blackleaf Black leaf the simplest way to control lice is to paint or spray blackleaf Black leaf 40 or nicotine Sulp sulphate bate on the roosts boosts in the chicken house just before ro time any good wood wood preservative painted or sprayed into the cracks in the chicken house around the roosts boosts and nests makes a fairly satisfactory control of chicken mites prevention of in test ional worms through sanitation and the rotation of chicken yards is easier cheaper and more satisfactory than any drugs which can be given to the chickens any treatment to be effective must be followed by these control measures breaking up broody hens A non laying hen eats up the profit of a laying hen broodiness results in a period of the length of this period depends on the manner in m which broodiness is handled each day that a broody hen is allowed to stay on the nest two or three days are as a rule added to this productive nonproductive non period while a hen is broody she is living largely on surplus body tissues which must be replaced before she will come into laying condition again if allowed to remain broody too long and consequently in a rundown condition a hen may go into a molt in which case she will not lay for a considerable length of time the best way to break up a boody hen is to p place I 1 ace her in a slat bottom coop with sides of wire this broody coop should not be too large and is most convenient when located in the poultry house itself it should be equipped with a good door as well as a kllc for keeping food and water this broodiness of hens is not hastened by starving the hen but simply lengthens the period of production non and may force her into a molt this brood coop or jai jail 1 I is very uncomfortable and since she ca can n see the other hens moving about freely she becomes very restless and soon forgets her broodiness the length of time require required d to break a hen of this habit by means of the brood coop varies varies with different hens and with different breeds two or three days in this sort of coop is usually sufficient especially if the hen is caught early in the broody period it is never wise to let a broody hen remain on the nest over night therefore it is a good practice to go thru the nests each night at dusk or later and remove all the hens on nests to the broody coope where they should be locked up another effective means of discouraging cou raging brood broodiness ivess among hens is to remove the eggs in the nest as soon as possible after they are laid nest eggs of any kind should never be used byron alder utah agriculture a station |
