DISEASES OE THE DKiESTIVE THA(n^ 115 



inereasiut»- amounts. On the iiftli day rolled oats are added 

 and diseontiiuied at the end oi' the sixth week. On the ninth 

 day mash is given as follows: eorn meal (! parts, wheat bran 

 4 jsarts, middlinjxs 2 ])arts, and linseed meal 1 i)art. Sour 

 milk should he given throughout. 



The following scheme of feeding ])()ults has been suggested 

 hy liadley as a means of aiding in warding off blackhead: 



1. Hatch the turkey eggs in incubator, in the meantime having 

 hens set on china eggs in nest boxes or brooders on the permanent 

 range. 



2. Remove the poults from the incubators about twenty-four 

 hours after hatching, and disti'ibute at night among the hens, giv- 

 ing from twelve to fourteen to 



each hen. Be sure to see that 

 the hen accepts them before 

 leaving them, 



3. Give no feeding before the 

 poults are two days old. Each 

 family may then receive two tea- 

 spoonfuls of egg chopped tine 

 with some green feed such as 

 nettles, dandelion, onion tops or 

 lettuce. A little cracker may be 

 added to take up surplus moist- 

 ure so that the mixture will not 

 be pasty. 



4. This ration may be re- 

 peated for the remainder of the 

 feedings upon this day, or bread 

 soaked in sweet milk may be 

 substituted for the meal. 



5. During the first three or 



Fig. 4S. 



Blood Sme.-vr from 

 Blackhead. 



A Case of 



four days of feeding the poults 

 receive four meals each day, at 

 about eight o'clock, eleven, two 

 and live; after this but three 

 meals are given. 



6. On the second day of feeding about 

 given, but one of the meals may be of chick 



Showing intense eosinoplulia; a, red 

 blood cells; b, eosinophiles: c, Lhrom- 

 liocytes; d, lynip'iocytes; e, 'nononuclear 

 leukocytes. 



oats may be added to the chopped egg 



the same 

 grain, and 

 mixture, 

 second 



rations are 

 some rolled 



the 



The poults are 



7. The third day of feeding is like 

 allowed to run in their enclosure. 



8. On the fourth or fifth day of feeding, the number of meals 

 may be reduced to three, at eight o'clock', twelve and five. The 

 amounts are slightly increased and a little grit may be added. 



9. When the poults are about a week old they may be allowed 

 to run free with the old hen on the range on pleasant days when 

 the grass is dry. Chopped egg in the ration is reduced and omitted 

 by the seventh day of feeding. 



10. On the sixth day. the feeding is put on a time basis. Sev- 

 eral spoonfuls of feed are put on the tray and well distributed, 

 but the poults ai-e not allowed to eat for more than about three 

 minutes at any one meal. 



11. By the end of the second week, the time limit is reduceri to 



