Show watch for in the chicken flock during the winter months when the flock Is confined indoors on hard concrete or board floors a few cases of are likely to develop and to require attention results in an abscess or corn on the bottom of the fowls foot usually caused by a jar or bruise received in jumping from a perch that la Is too high to a hard bard floor occasion ally the trouble Is caused by sharp corners on the perches or by perches that are too large for the fowls to rest on naturally one of the best remedies for Is prevention see that there are no sharp corners on the roosts boosts and that the roosts boosts are as low as they can be placed conveniently particularly u if one of the heavy breeds Is being housed another item that Is of value in prevention ts Is the matter of keeping beeping a liberal supply of clean litter on the floors in cases where develops a few applications of tincture of iodine will usually effect a cure if applied at the first signs of foot soreness |