American Agriculturist, August 18,1923 
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How I Handle Young Stock 
During tlie Summer 
C. A. UMOSELLE 
O WING to the very late spring more 
chicks were hatched in June than 
usual, and the hatching was, in many 
cases, extended into July. To care 
properly for these late hatched chicks 
requires much watchfulness to prevent 
disease from getting a start among 
them. The use of incubator and brood- 
der insures freedom from lice, but 
many of us still rely upon the hen, and 
consequently must fight the lice and a 
number of other evils. 
A brooder is preferable to hens in 
every way. If we depend upon the 
hen, there will be chicks trampled to 
death, chilled to death and possibly 
some lost or devoured by a neighbor’s 
cat. With a brooder and an inclosed 
run there are none of these with which 
to contend, and the percentage of chicks 
brought successfully to maturity will be 
correspondingly high. If hens must be 
used, the nests and all surroundings 
should be kept clean, and every precau¬ 
tion should be used to keep them free 
from lice. 
At this time my yard is full of young 
stock of every age from three to eight 
weeks, and in the brooder yard are 
others just hatched. All of these last 
are intended for market and will be 
brought to the proper size as quickly 
as possible. They are fed corn bread 
and finely chopped meat scraps until a 
week' old, then the smaller grains are 
added, and after the fourth week their 
principal food is corn, beef scraps and 
some green stuff. 
Free range is not advisable for mar¬ 
ket fowls. They should have no. more 
exercise than is necessary to insure 
good health. From the first, grit is 
absolutely necessary to insure perfect 
digestion, and failure to provide it will 
surely cause trouble. I believe that 
broken china gives more satisfactory 
results than the grit sold by poultry 
dealers and the hens eat it more rap¬ 
idly. In my yard I placed two boxes 
of grit, one china, the other commer¬ 
cial, and the china was taken eagerly 
by the fowls, while the other was not 
eaten until there was no china left. 
All young stock not intended for 
layers or breeders should be disposed 
of as soon as they reach the proper 
size. To keep them longer is a useless 
expense. It is better to sell at once at 
the prevailing market price, though it 
may be low, than to wait for higher 
prices. A disease which kills many 
young chickens during the summer 
months is bowel trouble. The principal 
cause is the feeding of wet food. Often 
more food is given the fowls than they 
will eat at once, and in hot weather it 
soon becomes sour, is eaten later and 
causes sickness. If not allowed to go 
too far before treating, bowel trouble 
can be cured by giving a few doses of 
ginger to the affected fowl. The best 
preventive is to feed nothing but dry 
food. 
Lice probably cause more trouble 
than any of the various diseases; yet 
the farmers refuse, in many cases, to 
heed the advice so often given in re¬ 
gard to cleanliness. Lice thrive in 
filth, and if the house and premises 
are kept clean the pests will not re¬ 
main. A liberal use of whitewash and 
lime will work wonders, but even these 
will prove ineffective if the droppings 
are allowed to accumulate for weeks. 
Clean the poultry house twice a week 
in summer, and give plenty of sun¬ 
shine and fresh air. Give free range 
to the young pullets if possible.. They 
will mature in less time than if con¬ 
fined, and before cold weather sets in 
they should be laying. 
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August 30—Susquehanna Co., Pa. Hol¬ 
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