Show salt poisoning among chickens not common it Is a a well known fact that tant the chicken like other farm has need of a certain amount of salt in its ration the fact that there have been bpck reported a great many instances in years pone gone hy by of chickens being killed hy by eating feed that contained a considerable sid erable amount of salt seems to have led to a very general general belief among poultry men that chickens are very easily poisoned by common table salt certain experiments have been carried out which Indi indicate cafe that under the right conditions chickens can tolerate a much larger amount of nf salt than has generally been supposed it has been shown for example that chickens eight or nine weeks old could he be restricted to a ration containing as high as 8 per cent of common salt without serious results |