1911. 
481 
The Henyard. 
COSGROVE ON HEN FEEDING. 
I have 75 Barred Rock hens and 45 pul¬ 
lets (April and May hatch) and while they 
laid a few eggs in the Fall and a few all 
Winter (from six to 15 per day) I think 
1 should be getting more eggs now. My 
coop is 1 Gx 32 feet, 5% feet high in back 
and nine feet in front; board floor with 
air space of from one to four feet built on 
a slope; plenty of light, clean and free 
from vermin. I feed two quarts oats aud 
two quarts wheat in litter in morning, two 
quarts at noon, three quarts corn and one 
quart buckwheat at night, all the mangels 
they want to eat, and up to a month ago 
I ground green bone for them, but quit 
because I cannot get the bone, even though 
I paid one cent per pound. They have 
grit, oyster shell, charcoal and burnt dry 
bone, and clean water twice a day. Use oat 
and wheat straw for litter and change it 
once a month. I wish some one would tell 
me just how he would feed these chickens. 
Linden, Pa. G. G. l. 
G. G. L. starts off with a morning 
feed of two quarts wheat and two quarts 
oats for his 120 hens. That is just about 
right when fed in deep litter to keep 
them busy until noon; then instead of 
the two quarts oats which he feeds at 
noon I should open some hoppers con¬ 
taining a dry mash, and let the hens 
help themselves. A good dry mash can 
be made in many different ways. I 
would suggest this: Eight parts wheat 
bran, three parts wheat middlings, four 
parts ground Alfalfa, three parts corn- 
meal, five parts beef scraps. At present 
he is not feeding any meat and he does 
not state how much meat he fed when 
he could get the green bone. He feeds 
corn and buckwheat at night; these are 
both very fattening foods. I would sug¬ 
gest equal parts of corn, barley and 
wheat for the last meal. Hens will not 
overeat of the dry mash, because they 
cannot furnish saliva enough to moisten 
but a few mouthfuls at a time. If he 
can get clover hay it would be well to 
throw a pitchforkful into the litter, 
long hay just as he would feed it to his 
cows. He will be surprised to find how 
quickly most of it will disappear. Hens 
seldom have enough bulky food in Win¬ 
ter. The grain is too concentrated food, 
and is the cause of diseased livers, over- 
fat condition, and much of the mortality 
Of OUr flocks. GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
DISINFECTING AFTER ROUP OR 
CHOLERA. 
My opinion is that after roup a thorough 
disinfecting of drinking dishes and troughs 
for feed with some of the coal tar prepa¬ 
rations is necessary, also to whitewash the 
house with a percentage of the same prepa¬ 
ration, but the best cure is fresh air. Don't 
let the houses sweat; open them even in 
cold weather enough daytimes to keep them 
dry. If you begin this way in the Fall, 
opening every day, the fowls become hard¬ 
ened to it, but you cannot open one day 
and shut the next without trouble. As to 
the yards, one should sprinkle slaked lime and 
plow ; grow a crop if you can ; better still, 
move the yard. I do not think this so 
necessary with roup as cholera. As to chol¬ 
era in the henhouse give a thorough clean¬ 
ing up, whitewashing as before stated, or 
spraying with some coal tar disinfectant 
and about the same treatment for yards. 
1 have a recent bulletin from Kingston 
Experiment Station, R. I., on cholera; 
don’t recall the number [Bulletin 144, Eds.]. 
It will give you facts and methods in detail. 
As a preventive of blackhead in hens, which 
we think resembles cholera in some respects, 
a thorough cleaning out of intestinal tract 
with Epsom salts in a mash at night about 
teaspoonful to 10 hens; repeat once, skip 
two or three days and repeat two nights; 
this as a preventive. Bulletin 141, Rhode 
Island Station, entitled "Blackhead in Tur¬ 
keys,” will give you valuable information. 
Massachusetts. ralph g. davis. 
The best method of disinfecting poultry 
houses in which diseased fowls have been, 
is to clean up the floor as well as the roosts, 
nests, etc. If there is any crust from the 
droppings anywhere in the house It should 
be soaked with water, and scraped off, in 
fact a good idea would be to wash out the 
floor, roosts, eta After doing this the 
house should be well disinfected with a 
good germicide in a powder form. The bot¬ 
tom of the roosts and crevices at different 
places should be painted with crude carbolic 
acid. A litter of good clean straw should 
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then be put in the house, nests, etc. The 
troughs and water vessels should also be 
cleaned up or washed out with hot water, 
and by this time there would be no danger 
of any germs being remaining. Concerning 
the yards, I would simply use a disinfectant 
of some kind or turn the soil. I claim 
that there are very few germs in the ground. 
Lime is an excellent thing to spray around 
In old chicken yards. The above remedies 
apply to both roup and cholera. In my 
20 years of experience in breeding chickens, 
I found that cholera is only prevalent when 
chickens do not receive the proper attention. 
If kept clean and given plenty of fresh 
water this disease will rarely prevail. Roup 
in itself is something else to speak of. 
Pennsylvania. b. h. grinder. 
Take fowls out of house, clean thorough¬ 
ly and burn refuse. Close house up tightly, 
and spray thoroughly with a solution of 
formalin (formalin can be purchased from 
any druggist in pound bottles ; directions on 
the bottle). Be sure every crack and 
crevice, walls, ceiling and floor are sprayed. 
After a day whitewash whole interior, using 
a little crude carbolic acid, or some coal 
tar disinfectant in the whitewash. Clean 
up the yards thoroughly and sprinkle lib¬ 
erally with dry quicklime. If yard is large 
enough to cultivate afterwards so much the 
better, riant a mixture of Red clover and 
rape, with a few oats, and harrow or 
rake in. Charles e. bryan. 
Maryland. 
We have never had cholera on our plant, 
nor roup in decided state, and hope we 
never do have. However, we would saturate 
all our houses and yards with a good strong 
disinfectant, also lime and plow up several 
times before putting stock in again. If 
this was done thoroughly, we think all 
germs would be destroyed. We lime and 
plow our runs weekly, which probably pre¬ 
vents our having any sickness. 
New York. bonnie brae farm. 
We have not had any roup on our farms 
to talk about, but if it broke out in our 
flock we would do the following to stamp 
it out: To disinfect house, we would take 
litter out of house and burn it, then thor¬ 
oughly clean out the house. Make a barrel 
of good whitewash (use plenty of lime in 
making same) and put in same one quart 
of good disinfectant. Spray roosts and in¬ 
side of house. Then 24 hours later we would 
again spray house, etc. To clean up a hen- 
yard on an acre of land we would spread 
from 750 to 1,000 pounds of ground lime, 
then have the ground plowed deep, no 
shallow cultivation. After ground has been 
plowed, let it re6t for a few days, then take 
a spring-tooth harrow and harrow the 
ground three times, or until it is loose. We 
would then seed the land, say, two parts 
rape, one part kale, one part Crimson clover, 
one part Alsike clover and one part White 
clover. After ground is covered with a 
good sod, we would turn the chickens in 
on same. highland farms. 
Maryland. 
Should my flock become affected with 
roup or cholera 1 should disinfect my 
houses through the use of some liquid and 
fume-emitting disinfectant. I would not 
clean up my henyard after roup, for while 
I may he entirely wrong and have no 
basis for my expression except a strong 
opinion on the matter, I do not believe 
that a roup organism would infect the 
ground. After an attack of cholera I would 
sprinkle the ground with lime, plow it and 
again pot lime on the new earth. I have 
been told that roup has affected the timber 
in a house, and other fowls in time have 
been affected by the disease. I believe 
that roup is contagious; that is. that 
healthy fowls may be infected by drinking 
from the water crock that “roupy” fowls 
drink from, and further that they can be 
infected from contact with one another 
while on the roost. However, roup appears 
to me to be an acute stage of cold. In 
this age of enlightenment poultry should 
never be affected with colds. This is a 
strong statement, but I make it thought¬ 
fully and considerately. A fowl has suffi¬ 
cient disease-resisting force to withstand 
the natural changes in temperature and 
humidity, if the fowl is normally healthy. 
If this is true, then colds are the result of 
the poultryman disregarding these two ele¬ 
ments essential to animal life, i. e., fresh 
air and sunshine. Therefore build an open- 
front house and never make it deeper than 
its sun line. Cholera is a fearful disease. 
If it infected my flock I would kill off 
evGry bird I bad and start over. Cholera 
seems to travel in “waves,” which are years 
apart. Fortunately I have never had a 
case of fowl cholera, and I am glad to add 
that it is far from being a common disease 
at this time. frank j. eppele. 
New Jersey. 
Cement Foundation for Henhouse. 
Can I with success build a foundation for 
chicken coop opt of small field stones? I 
wish to make a frame as for concrete and 
fill in with stone, and then pour the cement 
mixture over it. Could I with safety ex¬ 
pect the cement to run in over aud be¬ 
tween the rocks so that they will all stick 
together and make it a solid foundation? 
Knife River. Minn. w. a. 
We did much the same thing and have a 
good foundation. You must make your ce¬ 
ment mixture so it will run easily aud be 
sure to dig down below the frost line to 
start your wall. 
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