The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
709 
lBLoodsalT 
HATCHERY 
THE HENYARD 
A Mysterious Ailment 
‘ Will you tell me what is the cause of 
my hens losing the use of their feet? 
They mope around, then get so they can¬ 
not walk. In a couple of days they die. 
I have been able to save a small number. 
Is it too much feed? mrs. c. p. l. 
Spencer. Mass. 
I doubt if your agricultural college 
knows what is the matter in cases like 
this; I certainly don't. Paruylsis of the 
legs, or at least some disease which seems 
to make the use of the legs impossible, 
has been the forerunner of a multitude 
of deaths in the poultry flocks of New 
England during the past few years. So 
far as I know, no one has satisfactorily 
explained the nature or cause of the 
trouble. If any of the poultry experts 
know, I have not learned of it. The 
trouble has been ascribed to worms, to 
overfeeding, to the use of improper foods 
and to various other things, but I have 
seen no satisfactory evidence offered that 
any of these things are responsible. I 
should be glad to know of any explana¬ 
tion offered by your agricultural college. 
M. B. D. 
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Rations with Dried Buttermilk 
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lowing dry mash rations: For baby 
chinks, for growing chicks, for laying 
hens? All of the above rations to con¬ 
tain dried buttermilk and milk albumen. 
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Dried buttermilk may be substituted 
for all or part of the meat scrap used in 
dry mashes fed baby chicks and laying 
hens. As it contains but little more than 
half the amount of digestible protein 
found in high-grade beef scrap, it is doubt¬ 
ful economy to use it as the sole source 
of animal protein unless it can be pur¬ 
chased at a correspondingly lower cost. 
I have never fed dried buttermilk to 
chicks, but should expect the following to 
make a dry mash for them up to 12 weeks 
of age: Two parts wheat bran, one part 
each flour middlings, corumeal. and 
ground oats, and one-half part eaeh dried 
skim-milk and best meat scrap. I should 
also feed some liquid skim or buttermilk, 
if possible, and if I bad all of either of 
these that the chicks would consume when 
kept before them in place of water. I 
should cut out the greater part, or all. of 
the dried buttermilk and meat scrap. If 
no meat scrap is fed, however, five per 
cent of bonemeal should be added to the 
mash. For chicks under six weeks of age. 
the oat hulls and the coarser parts of the 
meat scrap should be sifted out. 
The following is a good mash for grow¬ 
ing chicks over 12 weeks of age and for 
laying hens and pullets: Equal parts, 
by weight, of wheat bran, middlings, 
oornmeal. ground oats and beef scrap. 
The beef scrap may be replaced in whole 
on in part by dried buttermilk, if it is 
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in the mash. At some experiments car¬ 
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up to one-third part by weight, of the 
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termilk. and showed a slight superiority 
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Diarrhoea: Hatching Questions 
I. What is the cause of white diarrhoea, 
and can it he cured or prevent it before 
ir gets a hold of the young ehicks? 2. Is 
there any way to tell fertile or unfertile 
eggs before you put them in a maebine? 
1$. How old should chicks be before they 
should be let out on the ground to run? 
-I How many hens would be desirable 
with a cock for insuring fertile eggs to 
hatch? i. H. 
Harrisonburg. Pa. 
1. There are many causes of diarrhoea 
in chicks, such as improper foods or meth¬ 
ods <if feeding, chilling, improper methods 
of brooding, etc, and these diurrhtens may 
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True white diarrhiea, however, is caused 
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loruin. This germ may be contained in 
the eggs from infected hens or may be 
acquired by the chick through coming in 
contact with other diseased chicks or with 
infected food, drink, or litter. There is 
no cure for this form of white diarrhoea : 
it is to be prevented by hatching only 
from disease-free flocks and keeping 
healthy chicks away from those that are 
infected and from anything which they 
may have contaminated. 
2. There is no method of detecting the 
fertility of an egg before it has been in¬ 
cubated sufficiently long to enable the 
embryo within ii to begin development. 
Appliances for determining fertility in 
advance of incubation are fakes. 
.’1, Chicks should be given a run upon 
the ground within a few days from hatch¬ 
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