POULTRY KEEPING 201 



Too Much Bulky Food for Turkeys. 



My turkeys have crops full o\f food that does not pass out and is very 

 sour. They stand with their wings drooped and refuse to eat, and in about 

 twelve days they die. 



Change your feed, for the supposition is that the feed has been 

 too bulky and the turks have lacked exercise. Unless you empty the 

 crop, very little can be done. When you find one with its wings 

 drooped, catch it, then get about a pint of warm water and pour a 

 little at a time down the gullet. Work the water among the food in 

 the crop with your hand, doing it gently so as not to hurt; then hold 

 the bird head down and make it vomit the feed and water. Keep this 

 up until you have the crop empty, then wash it out with baking soda 

 and water, holding the bird so that this water also runs out of the 

 mouth. After the crop is clean, give the bird a tablet of nux vomica 

 and sulphur compound, 1-100 of a grain strength each, morning and 

 night until it digests its feed properly. 



Look for Mites in the Morning. 



7 had one hundred and twenty little turkeys hatch during the last 

 month and now have only twenty left. They have no lice or diarrhoea. 

 When I go out once they are all right and eating; next time I go out to 

 look at them in perhaps ten minutes I find two or three dying. 



It is probably either lice or mites that is doing the mischief. 

 Look well into the brooding place very early in the morning and I 

 think you will find some nice little red fellows that have dined off 

 your turks while you slept. To anyone not accustomed to the ways of 

 mites it is not easy to find them until they have taken full possession 

 of a place; hence the need of looking\ early in the morning. At that 

 time they are full and, of course, lazy. You will find them under 

 boards, in cracks, and about all joints and knots in lumber where 

 chicks and turks are. There is nothing else that could clean up a 

 lot of turks like that and leave no trace of its work. Diarrhoea gives 

 itself away, but not mites or lice; of course you can find the lice, but 

 mites are mighty cunning. 



Feed for Young Turks. 



7 am feeding my young turks hard boiled eggs, onion tops, and curd. 

 As I have more hatching soon, would like to know what to do for them. 



Your feed is about all right. A little corn meal mixed with the 

 egg and a little rolled oats would be a good addition. Turks must 

 have something in the cereal line such as bread crumbs, corn meal, 

 and rolled oats. These are^ll easy to digest, yet nourishing. 



Yellow Droppings From Young Turks. 



What shall I do for yellow droppings from young turks, and hoiv 

 shall I feed them? 



