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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
February  3,  1923 
SOLVED  BABY  CHICK  PROBLEM 
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Grant  Ivins,  Enterprise,  Utah,  writes: 
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The  Henyard 
Carbolic  Acid  for  Roup 
I  have  read  »vith  interest  article  in 
The  R.  N.-Y.  in  reference  to  carbolic  acid 
for  roup,  December  23,  page  150*4.  I 
have  a  small  flock  of  very  snappy-looking 
pullets,  ten  of  which  had  the  roup  almost 
as  badly  as  a  chicken  can  have  it  and 
live  through  it.  I  tried  many  remedies, 
which  all  may  be  good,  including  perman¬ 
ganate  of  potash.  I  have  extracted  cank¬ 
ers  from  their  tongues,  windpipes,  throats 
and  from  their  eyes  as  large  as  a  small¬ 
sized  hickorynut.  Two  of  my  pullets  lost 
one  eye  each  before  I  learned  what  to  do 
for  them.  But  the  best  thing  I  found  is 
to  buy  about  one-half  pint  of  crude  car¬ 
bolic,  put  one  tablespoonful  in  one-half 
gallon  of  warm  water  and  immerse  the 
head  of  each  chicken  for  about  two  sec¬ 
onds.  If  the  chicken  flies  and  kicks, 
dont’  be  alarmed.  If  the  case  gets  very 
bad  and  you  wish  to  treat  it  individuality 
take  a  thin,  strong,  rough  stick  and  wind 
about  an  inch  and  a  half  of  the  end  with 
absorbent  cotton  tightly  (so  it  will  not 
come  off  in  the  mouth  and  the  chicken 
swallow  it).  In  a  teacup  put  about  one- 
third  teaspoon  of  carbolic  acid  and  fill  the 
cup  with  warm  water.  Then  proceed  to 
swab  thoroughly  the  throat,  mouth  and 
over  the  head  and  eyes.  After  doing  this 
use  a  small  rag  saturated  in  the  carbolic 
to  wash  off  the  feathers  or  body  where 
the  chicken  has  been  rubbing  its  head  or 
eye  to  remove  or  kill  the  germs  in  that 
pus  or  mucus,  wnich  is  the  cause  of  its 
spreading.  After  going  through  this  oper¬ 
ation,  take  some  salve  on  the  end  of 
finger,  put  some  in  the  mouth,  especially 
in  the  top,  right  in  the  slit,  then  all  over 
the  head  and  eye.  Be  sure  to  keep  them 
warm  and  isolated.  Don’t  forget  to  steril¬ 
ize  your  coop  immediately  upon  discovery 
of  any  disease.  You  can  use  crude  car¬ 
bolic  for  this  at  the  rate  of  two  or  three 
tablespoons  to  the  gallon  in  a  spray,  tak¬ 
ing  care  not  to  get  it  in  any  feed.  Roup 
is  a  radical  disease,  and  needs  radical 
treatment.  I  went  at  it  with  the  determi¬ 
nation  to  cure  or  kill,  and  the  response  I 
got  to  this  treatment  put  all  else  in  the 
discard.  • 
Carbolic  acid  is  not  such  a  terrible 
thing  if  used  judiciously.  I  would  not 
use  it  as  a  beverage.  However.,  we  used 
to  lose  50.000  oi  60.0(V'  lives  annually 
using  alcohol  for  a  beverage,  still  many 
went  that  route.  Carbolic  is  an  excellent 
thing  to  give  chickens  to  drink  once  a 
month.  Use  a  teaspoon  to  one  and  a  half 
gallons  water.  Three  of  those  pullets  are 
now  laying.  c.  w.  M. 
East  Orange.  N.  J. 
Thei-e  is  no  doubt  that  vigorous  treat¬ 
ment  with  strong  disinfectant  solutions 
will  destroy  the  roup  germs,  whenever 
they  are  within  reach,  but  the  difficulty  is 
to  get  at  those  that  hide  in  the  nasal  and 
other  passage’s  of  a  fowl’s  head.  Germs 
may  remain  here  indefinitely,  and  when 
conditions  are  right  again  make  their  ap¬ 
pearance  in  an  outbreak  of  ihe  disease. 
It  is  the  difficulty  in  doing  a  thorough  job 
that  makes  anything  but  individual  treat¬ 
ment  of  roup  worth  while,  and  that  also 
makes  the  result  of  individual  treatment 
uncertain. 
Carbolic  acid  is  a  good  germ  destroyer, 
but  because  of  its  intensely  poisonous 
character  it  must  be  handled  with  cau¬ 
tion.  Being  colorless  in  solution,  it  may 
be  mistaken  for  clear  water  and  swal¬ 
lowed  by  children  or  animals.  Its  one 
advantage  in  the  matter  of  safety  is  that 
it  has  a  strong  odor.  For  external  appli¬ 
cation  to  skin  or  feathers  it  may  be  used 
in  as  strong  solution  as  2*4  (1  lb.  or  pint 
to  five  gallons  of  water).  One  pound  to 
four  gallons  of  lime  whitewash  adds  to 
the  efficiency  of  the  latter  as  a  disinfect¬ 
ant  for  interior  walls.  Clear  solutions 
that  must  be  left  about  should  be  colored 
with  a  little  laundry  blueing,  to  prevent 
their  being  mistaken  for  water  or  other 
harmless  liquids. 
It  is  useless  to  try  to  disinfect  the  ali¬ 
mentary  canal  of  fowls  or  humans  with 
carbolic  acid  or  other  germicides.  The 
germicide  that  will  do  this,  wthout,  doing 
harm,  has  long  been  sought,  but  has  never 
been  found.  Carbolic  acid  in  drinking 
water  could  have  no  other  effect  than  to 
act  as  an  antiseptic,  or  discourager  of 
germ  growth,  in  the  water  itself. 
M.  B.  D. 
Winter  Molt 
I  have  225  8.  C.  White  Leghorn  pul¬ 
lets.  which  I  put  in  their  laying  quarters 
last  Fall,  and  they  were  looking  fine. 
They  were  hatched  in  April,  and  they 
started  to  lay  in  September.  They  laid 
well  until  about  two  weeks  ago ;  now  they 
have  cut  down  to  35  or  40  eggs  a  day.  I 
think  they  are  going  through  a  molt. 
What  causes  this  molt  now?  I  am  feed¬ 
ing  the  Cornell  ration.  Is  12  qts.  of 
grain,  wheat,  corn  and  oats)  at  night 
in  the  straw  litter  and  0  qts.  in  the  morn¬ 
ing  all  right  for  grain  ration?  I  also 
feed  green  stuff,  consisting  of  mangels, 
cabbage  and  apples  chopped  together,  at 
noon  :  about  0  or  8  qts.  of  this.  I  have 
also  fed  some  skim-milk  at  noon  (sweet). 
Is  this  good  for  them?  What  would  you 
advise  me  to  put  in  ration  to  help  this 
molt  along?  My  laying  house  is  20x40, 
after  the  Cornell  plan.  K.  B. 
Roscoe,  N.  Y. 
Molting  of  pullets  in  the  Winter  after 
they  have  begun  to  lay  is  usually  caused 
by  some  sudden  change  in  their  care  or 
feeding.  The  ration  may  be  changed  in 
composition,  either  by  addition  or  sub¬ 
traction.  or  a  change  may  be  temporarily 
brought  about  by  omitting  part  of  it.  as 
by  getting  out  of  mash  and  feeding  whole 
grain  only  for  a  few  days.  Review  your 
feeding  methods  for  a  time  and  see  if  you 
have  not  made  some  sudden  change  that 
has  been  sufficient  to  bring  about  a  molt. 
Changes  are  sometimes  necessary,  of 
course,  but  they  should  be  made  grad¬ 
ually. 
You  are  feeding  about  the  usual  quan¬ 
tity  of  grain  that  Leghorns  with  dry  mash 
before  them  will  consume.  This  is  about 
8  to  10  qts.  daily  per  100  birds.  They 
should  have  all  that  they  will  consume 
at  night,  whether  12  qts.  or  24. 
There  is  nothing  that  will  help  molt 
along,  save  good  feed  and  care.  M.  b.  d. 
Killing  Poultry 
How  are  poultry  killed  for  dry  picking? 
Have  tried  bleeding,  then  sticking  knife 
between  and  back  of  eyes.  But  they 
do  not  pick  without  tearing  skin  ;  I  have 
a  fear  of  tearing  the  skin  with  every 
feather  pulled.  h.  r  w 
Buskirk,  N.  Y. 
There  is  a^knack  in  sticking  and  dry¬ 
picking  which  must  be  learned  by  prac¬ 
tice.  T  nl ess  the  sticking  is  properly 
done,  the  feathers  will  not  loosen.  Hang 
up  the  fowl  by  the  feet  and  with  the 
head  held  in  the  left  hand  stretch  the  body 
to  its  full  length.  Open  the  bird’s  mouth, 
and  with  a  sharp,  narrow  blade  sever  the 
blood  vessels  at  the  back  of  the  throat 
with  one  sweep.  Then  turn  the  blade 
and  plunge  its  point  through  the  roof  of 
the  mouth  to  a  point  just  behind  and  be¬ 
tween  the  eyes.  Here,  if  the  sticking  is 
properly  done,  the  brain  will  be  reached, 
the  bird  rendered  unconscious,  and.  fol¬ 
lowing  a  convulsive  shudder  of  the  body, 
the  muscles  will  relax  and  the  feathers 
w’lll  loosen  so  as  to  be  removed  easily. 
M.  B.  D. 
How  deep  are  the  poultry  nouses  built 
on  the  commercial  plants  in  Jersev  and 
New  York  for  best  results?  How  many 
laying  hens  can  be  kept  in  one  flock  for 
best  egg  production?  Can  you  advise  me 
where  I  can  get  working  plans  for  an 
uneven  span  roof  poultry  house  of  the 
latest  design?  I  am  planning  to  build  a 
house  to  hold  300  birds.  f.  b.  h. 
Clarks  Summit,  Pa. 
Buildings  of  from  18  to  24  ft.  in  depth 
are  now  preferred  to  narrow  ones,  both 
tor  economy  in  building  cost  and  comfort 
tor  the  fowls.  Deep  houses  permit  of 
open  fronts  without  exposing  fowls  on 
their  perches  in  the  rear  to  direct  drafts, 
and  the  more  nearly  square  a  building, 
the  less  the  lumber  required  in  its  walls. 
Small  flocks  undoubtedly  lay  better  than 
large  ones,  but  the  difference  in  produc¬ 
tion  may  be  more  than  counterbalanced 
by  labor  cost  in  caring  for  small  flocks. 
Commeraa1  plants,  keep  flocks  up  to 
l.oUO  or  more  in  size. 
o/Vfi  tlie  ATtax-  C’olle£e  °f  Agriculture 
R,-„ 5  NG  Yt  ancd  tho  011,1  at  New 
Brunswick,  N.  J.,  for  bulletins  upon 
the  construction  of  poultry  houses. 
,  M.  B.  D. 
n,  ,IouW  be  4  ie  ration  to  feed 
to  njft  ffL  gg-pr°lu?tlon?  1  am  about 
rpV^,, ,bem  111 1  their  laying  quarters. 
They  aie  four  months  old.  I  would  also 
like  to  know  how  much  scratch  grain  to 
teed  them  and  what  kind  of  a  mixture.  I 
have  200  pullets.  I  have  cracked  corn, 
buckwheat,  wheat  and  oats  for  scratch 
gram  I  have  ground  oats,  meat  scraps, 
wheat  bran,  eornmeal,  wheat  middlings, 
i  would  like  to  know  how  much  to  feed 
for  morning  and  evening.  I  would  also 
like  to  know  what  kind  of  a  running  wa¬ 
ter  fountain  to  build  inside  the  coop,  and 
how  big  I  would  have  to  build  perches 
and  house  for  250  pullets.  w  L. 
'Cambridge,  N.  Y. 
I  know  of  no  better  laying  mash  for 
these  pullets  than  the  mixture  often  rec¬ 
ommended  in  these  columns,  viz.,  equal 
parts,  by  weight,  of  eornmeal,  ground 
oats,  wheat  bran,  middlings  and  beef 
scrap.  A  half  pound  of  fine  salt  may  be 
added  to  each  100  lbs.  of  the  mash.  ‘For 
scratch  grain,  use  one-half  cracked  corn 
and  the  balance  in  wheat,  buckwheat,  bar¬ 
ley  and  oats,  or  such  of  these  as  you  may 
have.  If  whole  oats  are  not.  eaten,  they 
may  be  fed  after  sprouting  or  soaking  in 
boiling  water  until  soft. 
The  mash  should  be  kept  dry  before  the 
fowls  all  of  the  time,  and  the  scratch 
grain  fed  night  and  morning  in  the  litter. 
The  200  fowls  will  probably  eat  from  16 
to  20  quarts  of  scratch  grain  daily,  in 
addition  to  their  mash,  but,  after  a  rather 
light  feeding  in  the  morning,  should  have 
all  that  they  will  eat  before  going  to 
their  perches  at  night.  About  equal  parts 
of  mash  and  whole  grain  should  be  con¬ 
sumed  and,  if  too  much  whole  grain  is 
fed,  the  mash  will  be  neglected. 
A  house  20  by  40  ft.  would  accommo¬ 
date  250  fowls  of  small  or  medium  size, 
*and  three  perches  running  the  length  of 
the  building  would  give  them  roosting 
space.  If  you  have  running  water,  con¬ 
duct  it  to  any  kind  of  simple  trough  in 
the  interior  of  the  building. 
