CHAPTER XVIII 

 Raising Broilers — Bozwl Trouble, Its Cause and Cure 



This chapter is written expressly for broiler men and 

 those who keep their hens mainly on mashes. 



As I have been through the same experience in my 

 clay, and have seen whole broods die off Hke poisoned 

 flies with bowel trouble, and have tried everything Ihad 

 ever heard of, but with no results until I took all feed 

 away for three days and gave only charcoal to eat and 

 boiled milk to drink with a good quantity of black pep- 

 per put in and this stopped the diarrhea completely. 

 But many would die any way, so I experimented even 

 further, for you can depend upon it if some in each 

 batch have it on the start of the season it will get worse 

 every hatch. So, for first three days I gave only char- 

 coal to eat and boiled milk to drink, with plenty of black 

 pepper in it. The result was I had scarcely a case of it 

 after this. But these chickens I found were very difficult 

 to raise anyway, so I had to look still further for my 

 trouble, and I found all the trouble lied in the feeding 

 of the breeders. You will find in nearly every case 

 the foundation of all your trouble lies in your breeding 

 stock. 



If you want healthy, rugged birds, free from disease, 

 never feed them a mash. 



The cheapest way of all to feed and have healthy, rug- 

 ged birds, free from disease at all times, is to feed as I 

 have told you, except in place of your light mash at 9 

 a. m., give your hens a good feeding of processed oats, 

 nature's own feed. If you will produce your eggs in this 

 way, from yearling hens mated, with fully-developed 

 cockerels, not less than ten months old, you can raise 

 practically every chick you hatch, even in a long-piped 

 brooder-house, providing you can run your temperature 



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