110 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



by proper arranging the hovers (after the first night they 

 should be placed at the back of the platform and placed close 

 together) and feeders, this will be overcome, for when the 

 chicks become accustomed to a hover of a certain color, it 

 will go to that hover. 



Toe picking at times becomes so bad that one becomes 

 disgusted with the poultry business. I have tried putting 

 everything imaginable on their toes without meeting with 

 any great success. 



Take a long box about four inches high with wire on top 

 and place it half inside and half outside (have three of these 

 if necessary) and keep the chicks in this for a day or so, then 

 put pitch-pine on the toe and let the chick go. I have stopped 

 the very worse cases of toe-picking by putting 1%% of 

 salt in the mash, but this is too much salt to use constantly, 

 as it makes the chick too th y. I have very little trouble 

 with toe-picking by using n system of feeding. The feed 

 has very much to do with this trouble and you will notice 

 that the more poorly the food is acting the worse the toe- 

 picking becomes. The brooding system also has its effect 

 on toe-picking, depending whether the chicks have a good 

 place to go under. Chicks are not very liable to pick toes 

 if they have a large run. If chicks have a craving that salt 

 will stop, it must be good for fowls of all ages and I advise 

 using y 2 % of salt in all mashes regardless of the age of the 

 fowl. But it is very hard to tell whether fowls require salt. 



The foreign egg problem that you are now having to 

 contend with is caused by the same means that is causing 

 95% of the failures in the poultry business (given on another 

 page in this book) and can instantly be removed by the 

 same method. 



It is very hard to get reliable information about feeding 

 poultry, for what one man will praise another will condemn. 



