1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
355 
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TROUBLE WITH POULTRY. 
Sick Turkey and Chicks. 
1. I have a turkey hen which has a swell- 
ins- on the side of her head. It came about 
two months ago, and was thought at first to 
be roup. It is purplish white in color, and Is 
situated between the eye and the upper part 
of the bill. It swells up at night and goes 
down some in the daytime. It also seems 
worse in colder weather. It is on the right 
side of the head. The nostril on this side 
runs some substance, and occasionally a 
blubber-like object covers the eye. The hen 
eats well and seems perfectly healthy other¬ 
wise. 2. I also have some little chickens 
about two weeks old that appear to be weak 
In the legs. They are kept in a brooder. It 
is warmed by a hot-air pipe over the chickens. 
They are sheltered from the weather and 
from dampness. They are fed oatmeal, bread 
made of cornmeal and oatmeal, white bread 
moistened in milk, some bone, and have grit 
always before them. About five chickens out 
of 65 are thus affected. Can you advise me 
as to some method of cure and prevention for 
these birds? mrs. a. c. l. 
Brookville, Ind. 
1. This swelling on the turkey’s face is 
probably filled with canker. I have seen 
precisely the same thing on hens, and there 
is usually an opening into the mouth from 
the swelling. When it is ripe, as we say of 
a boil, it can be squeezed out, the cavity 
washed with any antiseptic (very dilute 
carbolic acid, 50 to 1 is good), and it will 
probably get well. 2. About the chicks, 
they should be let out of the brooder as 
soon and as much as possible. I take the 
front out of my brooders and let the chicks 
down on the ground when they are four or 
five days old. I find the less they are con¬ 
fined to the brooders the better. I have 
seen chicks too weak to stand from being 
confined in a brooder house recover com¬ 
pletely in a short time when put outdoors 
on the ground. I would suggest some 
kind of green food in addition to that 
mentioned as being fed. Chop up some 
cabbage very fine, or lettuce. It is aston¬ 
ishing how much of such green food they 
will eat. 
Care of Little Chicks. 
What makes the bowels of little chicks so 
loose, and what will cure the trouble? About 
the second week after they are hatched they 
begin to have this looseness until the vent 
becomes clogged up and they die. I should 
be very glad to know what to do for them. 
Chester, Conn. Y. s. p. 
What makes their bowels so loose? Lots 
of things: too much heat in brooder, too 
little heat in brooder, too many changes of 
heat, but most often it is too much food; 
that is, food is left by them because it 
is so much easier than to feed them every 
few hours, and they get cloyed, or their 
little stomachs are not strong enough to 
digest so much food. Sometimes, too, it 
is undoubtedly pre-natal; that is to say, 
the hen that laid the egg from which the 
chick was hatched, was not in good con¬ 
dition, and the chick inherits a tendency 
to bowel trouble. In a recent number of 
The R. N.-Y. I gave an experience of 
last year, where I cured my chicks ot 
bowel trouble by putting 10 drops of 
Squibb’s Oiolera Mixture in a pint of 
water and letting the chicks drink it. 
1 hey were cured inside of 12 hours, and 
had no more of it. geo. a. cosgrove. 
DRY FEED FOR CHICKS. 
On page 293, I notice a paragraph in regard 
to feeding hens and chickens on dry food 
instead of mashes. I began on .Tune 30. 1902, 
feeding dry food to chickens just out of the 
incubator. Out of 55 I lost three. My last 
hatch was October 12, 1905. Out of 78 I 
lost twp. I always have two hatches in the 
Spring, and one in the Autumn. My losses 
do not average usually more than tlie above: 
very seldom four or five out of 60. I feed 
the chickens for the first three weeks on chick 
feed. All mixtures I have found equally good. 
The next four weeks I feed them on the fol¬ 
lowing : One part buckwheat, one oats whole, 
three cracked corn, one wheat. After this I 
feed on one part buckwheat, one oats whole, 
one wheat, and a liberal amount of corn on 
the ear. From the minute the chicks are put 
into the brooder they always have all the 
beef scrap they wish. This is kept standing 
in a dish. The other feed is scattered in 
the chaff. They also have greens. During 
the Winter they have cabbages and mangels. 
The main thing in my opinion is cleanliness 
and ventilation. The ventilation of all 
brooders which I have seen is imperfect, as 
the holes are covered with wire netting. I 
open the back of my brooder from 1-16 to 1-8 
of an inch during the night. Hens or 
chickens will stand a great deal of heat if 
they have plenty of ventilation. My henhouse 
has no artificial heat, Is well ventilated and 
has no drafts. I have had no diseases, and 
only lose one or two hens by death in a year. 
Egg record, from comparison with statements 
in your paper of what are called very good 
yields, is most satisfactory. In most cases 
my record is ahead of a great many so-called 
record laying. Every hen that I have on 
my place has been raised in an incubator. I 
have never introduced any hens from other 
places. The breed is entirely Rhode Island. 
In addition, I would say that I have raised 
English pheasants In this manner, entirely on 
dry food and beef scrap, and have never 
had a loss among them from death. I also 
have raised ducks and geese on the same 
system. The losses among those are larger, 
but I have never tried more than two or three 
at a time, so the percentage, of course, would 
be much larger. This Spring I am going 
to try turkeys on the same system. 
Massachusetts. l. g. st. l. abbott. 
DRIED BLOOD FOR POULTRY. 
Can you tell me whether dried blood will 
take the place of meat in a poultry diet? I 
have a flock of nearly 400, and have been 
feeding meat; they are doing so well that I 
do not like to risk too much by way of 
change. I feel rather proud of my poultry 
record the past month. My flock of less than 
400 has passed the 6,000-egg mark in 31 
days. Is this good, fair, or indifferent, for 
a record? It seems O. K. to me. 
Omaha, Neb. o. G. h. 
We would not use the dried blood which 
is sold for fertilizer. The specially pre¬ 
pared blood sold by some of the large 
packers will answer. That is a good 
record. _ 
January, 1906, I began keeping the egg 
record from 16 choice White Wyandotte pul¬ 
lets. For the first month they laid 25 dozen 
eggs. An individual record of each pullet is 
kept—the highest per pullet being 23 eggs, 
others 22. H. b. w. 
Hagerstown, Md. 
A February Record. —My flock, 570 hens, 
gave these results in the month of February : 
I sold 3,240 eggs; filled two incubators, 
twice 635, once 630 eggs, making in all 
4,505 laid, not counting on the broken ones, 
those we used. My feed was, morning mash, 
good standard middlings with some corn- 
meal, stirred with hot milk and dish water; 
noon, feed oats and a few cut apples, night 
whole corn, warmed, and all they want to 
eat, and ground oyster shells. Evenings I 
would take rye bundles not thrashed, cut In 
two for scratchings; water to drink. The 
hens were Brown and White Leghorns. 
Grahamsvllle. N. J. e. e. l. 
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White Plymouth Rocks FDhef 1 ™^ 
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