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MARVEL  BROODERS 
THE  HENYARD 
Ailing  Pullets 
I  am  having  trouble  in  my  tioek  of  pul¬ 
lets;  have  lost  four  and  have  several  un¬ 
der  suspicion.  First  one  went  lame, 
seemed  to  want  to  eat,  but  ate  with  diffi¬ 
culty.  finally  lost  use  of  legs.  Another 
had  wing  hanging  down,  lost  use  of  legs 
in  a  few  days ;  was  in  fine  condition,  lay¬ 
ing.  third,  similar,  but  legs  did  not  get 
weak  for  two  weeks,  then  we  killed  her. 
Another  did  not  lose  use  of  legs,  but  died 
after  moping  around.  All  had  enlarged 
liver;  the  last  one  had  a  few  spots  on 
liver.  Each  one  at  beginning  had  a 
greenish  movement  of  bowels,  but  that 
seemed  to  be  corrected  after  a  dose  of 
salts,  but  in  each  killed  found  crop  and 
gizzard  full  of  undigested  food,  yet  in¬ 
testines  seem  to  he  empty.  Do  you  think 
it  is  anything  wrong  with  my  food?  I 
give  light  feeding  of  grain,  corn,  oats  and 
a  little  wheat,  in  morning,  and  3%  quarts 
at  night  in  litter;  give  mash  of  equal 
parts  eornmeal,  ground  oats,  wheat  bran, 
gluten,  beef  scrap  and  middlings.  Some 
say  flour  middlings  are  clogging;  we 
should  use  brown  middlings.  We  give 
cabbage,  and  since  we  thought  food 
might  be  clogging,  give  a  beet  a  day,  too, 
to  these  50  pullets.  We  give  a  small 
amount  of  milk,  what  we  have  left,  per¬ 
haps  two  to  3 1/>  quarts  a  day.  c.  e.  m. 
M  assachiisetts. 
Your  method  of  feeding  and  the  mash 
are  all  good,  though  I  think  that  you 
must  have  crowded  the  pullets  pretty 
hard  during  the  Summer  to  have  ma¬ 
tured  them  so  early.  Lacking  range, 
they  probably  did  not  acquire  the  vigor 
that  more  liberty  would  have  given  them, 
and  some  of  them  are  not  standing  up 
under  heavy  feeding.  While  your  mash 
formula  is  one  much  used,  some  poultry- 
men  have  felt  that  the  quality  of  gluten 
feed  was  too  variable  to  make  if  suited 
to  poultry  and  prefer  to  leave  it  out.  I 
do  not  know  what  more  you  could  have 
doue  to  the  birds  showing  evidence  of 
sickness,  though  I  should  not  be  in  a 
hurry  to  kill  a  fowl  with  “leg  weakness.” 
This  is  sometimes  recovered  from  after  a 
few  days;  at  other  times  it  is  simply  evi¬ 
dence  of  weakness  from  some  internal 
trouble  and  is  noted  but  shortly  before 
death.  The  early  maturity  of  your  pul¬ 
lets  and  your  egg  yield  show  that  you 
have  crowded  them  hard  with  high  pro¬ 
tein  foods,  and  it  is  evident,  that  some  of 
them  cannot  stand  the  pressure.  If  one 
is  sure  of  the  quality  of  the  foods  used 
in  these  cases,  about  all  that  he  can  do 
is  to  take  either  the  losses  from  deaths 
among  the  less  robust  fowls  or  those  of 
decreased  production.  In  the  first  case. 
h!ei  ha s  the  satisfaction,  at  least,  of 
knowing  that  only  the  fittest  survive. 
\r.  p.  r>. 
Feeding  Pullets 
I  have  12  pullets  which  were  hatched 
last  May,  and  which  are  now  at  very 
good  size.  What  should  I  feed  them  to 
get  the  best  results,  and  how  long  do  yon 
think  it  will  be  before  they  start  laying? 
Connecticut.  n.  J.  o. 
These  pullets  should  be  given  a  light 
feeding  of  mixed  whole  grains  in  the 
morning,  scattering  a  small  handful  for 
each  bird  in  the  litter,  and  a  larger  quan¬ 
tity  before  they  go  to  roost  at  night, 
giving  them  then  all  that  they  will  eat. 
You  will  probably  feed  a  quart  or  more 
daily.  In  addition,  they  may  have  a  dry 
mash  before  them  all  the  time,  or  you 
can  feed  a  moist  mash  at  noon ;  in  the 
latter  case  giving  all  that  they  will  clean 
up  without  waste.  This  mash  may  well 
be  composed  of  equal  parts,  by  weight, 
of  eornmeal,  wheat  bran,  middlings, 
ground  oats  and  beef  scrap.  If  you  have 
some  skim-milk  to  feed,  or  have  table 
scraps  with  considerable  meat  in  it.,  the 
amount  of  meat  in  the  mash  may  be  cut 
down  correspondingly.  No  definite  amount 
of  feed  can  be  prescribed,  but  the  pullets 
should  have  all  that  thev  want.  Feed 
lightly  in  the  morning  to  induce  exercise, 
as  they  have  to  scratch  in  the  litter  for 
the  grain  :  give  a  satisfying  meal  at  npon 
and  all  that  they  will  eat  at  night.  If 
the  pullets  are  Leghorns,  or  any  of  the 
light  breeds,  they  should  begin  laying 
soon  after  reaching  five  months  of  age. 
The  heavier  breeds  will  take  about  a 
month  longer  to  mature.  M.  b.  d. 
Feeding  Potatoes  to  Hens 
1  have  about  100  >S.  C.  White  Leghorn 
pullers  which  are  laying  over  50  per  cent. 
Every  other  day  we  cook  about  4  qts.  or 
more  of  small  potatoes  and  mix  in  the 
dry  feed,  which  is  white  hominy  and 
bran  ;  then  every  other  day  we  cut  fine  6 
qts.  clover,  pour  on  boiling  water,  cover- 
tight  for  one  hour,  then  mix  in  feed, 
same  as  the  potatoes.  That  is  the  noon 
feed.  Of  course  they  have  the  dry  mash 
besides,  but  all  the  inash  we  give  is  white 
hominy  and  bran,  with  meat  scrap  in  the 
mash  or  alone,  and  they  have  about  one 
gallon  sour  milk  a  day.  Scratch  feed  in 
the  morning  is  wheat  and  buckwheat, 
corn  at  night.  I  have  always  fed  the 
potatoes  this  way  with  good  success.  We 
never  feed  them  raw.  I  have  wondered 
why  we  never  see  more  about  feeding 
white  hominy  to  hens.  We  think  it  the 
best  kind  of  feed  for  the  young  poultry, 
as  well  as  hens.  a.  o.  h. 
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