8 PRACTICAL POULTRY PRODUCTION 



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brood coop, Identifying chicks, Brood coops, Confine 

 the mother hen. — Artificial brooding: Hovers, Brooders, 

 Brooding systems. Individual hovers and brooders, 

 Brooder stoves. Hot-water pipe brooders, Fireless brood- 

 ers, ■ Correct temperature for brooding. Care of pur- 

 chased day-old chicks. 



VI Care and Feeding of Chicks and Growing Stock 108 



Feeding and care of chicks: First feed. Green feed. 

 Water. — Feeding and care of gj'owing stock: Feeding: 

 Grain feed, Dry mash, Sour milk. Green feed, Water. 

 Care : Housing, Free range. Shade, Cleanliness. — General 

 management. 



VII Preserved Eggs 120 



Time to preserve. — Kind to preserve. — Methods: 

 Waterglass, Lime Water — Disposition, Using, Selling. 



VIII Poultry Houses and Appliances 127 



Housing! Kind to bmid. Colony House and continuous 

 house. Location, Time to build. Building Materials, Size 

 and dimensions. Foundation andfloors, Framework, Roof, 

 Front, Walls, Partitions. — Interior arrangements: 

 Roosts, Dropping board. Nests, Trap nests. Dust boxes. 

 Broody coops. Drinking fountains. Ventilation. — Exte- 

 rior arrangement: Yards, fences, gates, paint, whitewash. 



IX Common Diseases and Treatment 159 



General prevention. — Common diseases, symptoms, and 

 treatment: Roup, Canker, Cholera, Tuberculosis, Lim- 

 berneck, Chickenpox, White comb,orfavus, Blackhead, 

 Frozen comb. Diarrhea in hens. White diarrhea in chicks, 

 Intestinal worms, Gapes, Crop bound, Feather pulling. 

 Toe picking. Egg eating, Rheumatism, Scaly leg, Bum- 

 blefoot. 



X Poultry Pests 176 



Mites. — Lice. — Head lice on chicks.— Stick-tight fleas. — 

 Poultry ticks, or blue bugs. — Chiggers. 



XI Capons and Caponizing 185 



Capons: What is a capon? Advisability of caponizing, 

 Most suitable breeds for capons.— Caponizing: Time to 

 caponize, Caponizing instruments. The operation. Care 

 after the operation. Subsequent management. — Feeding. 

 — Killing and dressing. 



XII Feeding for Egg Production 198 



Value of proper feeding. — Development of the egg, — 

 Poultry feeds and by-products : Grain feeds, Mash feeds. 

 Commercial feeds, (Meat feeds. Green feeds, Charcoal, 

 grit, and oyster shell, Water, Condiments and egg tonics.) 

 Composition of feeds. — Balanced rations : Nutritive ratio, 

 How to determine the nutritive ratio. Egg-laying ra- 

 tions. — Methods of feeding. — Quantity of grain to feed. 

 — Artificial lighting: Kind of lights to use, Methods of 

 feeding 



