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American Agriculturist, November 3,1923 
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'From GRASS 
to DRY FEED 
Now, the pasture field and range 
must give way 
—to the stall and manger, the feed 
lot and self-feeder, the barnyard and 
fodder rack. 
Include 
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You have often noticed stocking of the 
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Hen Troubles 
♦ 
Curing the Egg Eater — Questions About Diseases 
D O your hens eat eggs? Do you 
know why they eat eggs? I will an¬ 
swer the second one of these important 
questions. Your hens eat eggs for any 
one or all of the following reasons: 
They are confined too closely or are 
overcrowded and can’t get green food; 
they are not fed enough oyster shell, 
grit, charcoal, and other shell-making 
materials; their nests are made of fine, 
scratchable material, which invites 
scratching and consequent egg break¬ 
ing, and then egg eating; there may 
be too few nests, when fighting for 
possession will result in broken eggs; 
the hens may be too old and lay soft- 
shelled eggs; and the ration may be 
unbalanced. 
Someone may say, “My hens eat eggs 
in spite of all these things. They are 
not overcrowded; they are fed a bal¬ 
anced feed with all the different shell¬ 
making materials; they are young and 
have the range of the entire farm. 
They just eat them. That’s all.” 
Yes, I agree with such a person but, 
nevertheless, some one thing must have 
taught such hens the habit. Maybe, 
shells from the table and incubator, 
thrown uncrushed to the hens, may 
have started them. From our own 
flock, I know that the hens eat eggs 
sometimes when they get the chance 
at a broken egg on the floor or ground, 
or when they find an egg without a 
shell anywhere, but our hens are not 
egg eaters. More often than not, 
broken eggs and undeveloped eggs 
remain in the nests uneaten by our 
hens. 
To make the story short, try my 
trick to cure the hens of this exasper¬ 
ating habit. Place a china egg in 
every nest and scatter a dozen or two 
promiscuously about the floor and yard. 
At first, change the position of those 
china eggs not in the nests so that the 
hens will not recognize them as being 
the same ones. Watch how those egg¬ 
eating hens pick at the china eggs. 
They pick and follow them as they roll 
about, only to give up in disgust and 
pass along until they come to another 
egg. Here the picking performance is 
repeated. After several days, the most 
persistent egg eater will have learned 
that the eggs cannot be eaten. But 
by no means remove those eggs. Leave 
them lie. Now, later, should an egg 
be laid upon the house floor or out¬ 
side by any foolish hen who miscal¬ 
culated her time, the chances are that 
it will lie unmolested. Try it. Keep 
them thrifty by caring for them as I 
have suggested, crush all eggshells fed 
to them fine, and I believe that your 
hens will become as mine are, that 
have the range of the farm. These, 
I already have admitted, occasionally 
eat an egg which they find where it 
has no business to be, but they are by 
no means in the egg-eating class.—R. I. 
Weigley. 
HENS AFFECTED WITH GOUT 
I have a flock of hens that have been sick 
all winter. At first they had a cough and 
sneezed, but it did not seem to amount to 
anything. Then they began to droop around 
and their feet and legs would swell until 
they were three times the natural size. If 
they lived twelve hours with their feet like 
that, they would get along and eat more 
than any hens I have and would not lay. 
Sometimes ten or twelve would die in two 
or three hours. Could you tell me the cause 
and a cure?—N. M. R., New York. 
The symptoms as you describe them 
would suggest a very severe case of 
gout. Birds of low vitality are more 
subject to this disease than are strong, 
vigorous healthy hens, well-reared stock. 
Gout is usually caused by a combina¬ 
tion of improper feeding and bad hous¬ 
ing conditions; the trouble may be 
started by feeding garbage, mouldy 
feeds or rations containing too high a 
percentage of protein, especially if the 
mash is fed moist, in which case the 
hens do not take sufficient exercise and 
usually consume' too much mash and 
not enough grain, the mash usually 
containing more protein and less fats 
and carbohydrates than the grain. 
Dark, damp or drafty houses with 
dirt floors are very little or no better. 
Where the hens stand around or huddle 
on the perches, coupled with improper 
feeding, is the cause of nearly all 
poultry troubles. Hens should be kept 
busy under comfortable conditions. 
Vigorous stock, comfortably housed and 
properly fed, is rarely subject to trou¬ 
bles of this kind, in fact, troubles of 
any kind. A comfortable home means 
one that is clean, dry, free from drafts, 
has plenty of sunlight and is reason¬ 
ably warm, with sufficient ventilation 
and the hens made to work in a deep, 
dry litter for their grain. 
Give a Dose of Epsom Salts 
Hens badly affected with gout should 
be removed from the flock and dis¬ 
posed of. The balance of the fowls 
could be given one pound of epsom 
salts dissolved in six or eight quarts 
of water for each 100 birds; no other 
water to be allowed them until they 
drink all of this. Feed liberally of a 
good grain mixture both morning and 
night; also give them all the green food 
they will consume at noon. Sprouted 
oats would be best under these condi¬ 
tions, and plenty of skim milk or but¬ 
termilk would also be beneficial. If 
one could give them all they would 
drink of this, the mash could be taken 
away entirely until the hens could run 
out and secure green food, then the dry 
mash could be resumed. If milk is not 
available, feed only a small amount of 
the dry mash at noon, keeping it before 
them only a few hours, then make the 
housing conditions more comfortable. 
The poultry department of your State 
College will furnish free on application 
bulletins on poultry feeding and man¬ 
agement.—W. G. K. 
LOOKS LIKE POULTRY CHOLERA 
Our chickens have a disease that I do not 
know how to treat. Their head feathers all 
rise up and their combs turn black. They 
start with diarrhea. They seem to be hungry, 
but when they have eaten they droop and some 
die within twelve hours. The birds have 
clean airy houses facing the south, plenty 
of ventilation and no drafts. I have been 
feeding corn on the cob, dry bran with meat 
scrap and boiled potatoes. They have plenty 
of fresh clean water, slightly warm. They 
are free from lice and mites.—A. C. L., Ly- 
sander, N. Y. 
From the symptoms you . mention 
there seems to be two possibilities. 
Either the birds are suffering with 
pneumonia, cholera or liver trouble. In 
fact, we are led to believe that it is 
cholera. The first remedial step is 
to isolate the diseased birds or at 
least those birds showing suspicious 
symptoms. It is believed that there is 
no absolute cure for genuine cases of 
cholera. 
If you are contemplating bringing 
new birds in your flock, by all means 
keep them separated from the diseased 
flock. Destroy the bodies of the dead 
birds, preferably burning them or 
burying them in lime. If your flock 
was seriously infected with the disease, 
it would be most preferable for you 
to move- the birds to temporary quar¬ 
ters, thoroughly disinfecting them as 
well as liming the soil and turning it 
over. 
Birds that are affected with cholera, 
if they do not die, will become more or 
less useless in the flock and a danger 
to new birds that may be added. It is 
best to destroy them immediately. It 
is a case of which is cheaper, infecting 
new birds or killing sick ones. 
It is noticeable that you do not men¬ 
tion green food as being a part of the 
ration. This may be a responsible 
factor if omitted. 
HENS HAVE ABNORMAL THIRST 
I am having trouble and losing my hens. 
They seem to have a thirst that cannot be sat¬ 
isfied, for they drink water continually, get sick 
and in a few days fall dead. I can see no evi¬ 
dences of bowel trouble. Can you offer any 
suggestions?—G. A. C., Pennsylvania. 
Abnormal thirst in fowls is due to 
internal fever. There are various 
causes for such a condition, among these 
is the eating of mouldy or damaged 
feed, garbage, poison, or poisonous 
weeds, or a ration containing too large 
a proportion of corn or corn meal. 
Give one pound of epsom salts dis¬ 
solved in about eight quarts of water. 
Do not allow access to any other water 
until this is used up. Feed a good bal¬ 
anced ration of clean wholesome feeds, 
and keep surroundings in a sanitary 
condition. 
