American Agriculturist, January 12, 1924 
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January Chicken Chatter 
Charles H. Chesley 
O N the commercial poultry farm, the main 
dependence for eggs at this season must be 
the pullets. Almost all the young birds, except 
those hatched very lqte, have entered the 
production class by this month. Eggs are 
selling for high prices and we must do all we 
eah to promote heavy laying among the pullet 
flocks. At this season we have two distinct 
classes of birds to care for and the two require 
radically different treatment. First, we will 
consider the pullets, as they are the ones that 
give us the ready money. 
It is pretty generally the rule that pullets are 
kept confined to the laying houses, once they 
have started laying. This method should 
prevail from early fall until the next spring. 
No matter how tempting the weather may be, 
the young birds should not be allowed to 
range at will. The day should be filled with 
activity and work for the birds. The loafing 
time was while they were developing and get¬ 
ting ready for the work to be done. Lighting 
the houses to increase the food eaten helps to 
produce spring-like conditions for the birds. 
A large percentage of our commercial poultry- 
men find it pays to add two or three hours to 
the normal day. 
Keeping the Birds Fit 
Under intensive conditions the feeding ques¬ 
tion is one of considerable importance, and the 
same is true in the. matter of sanitation. To 
induce high production the mash must be of 
high meat-scrap or protein content. Protein 
is something of the nature of a poison and when 
the birds consume large quantities of meat- 
scrap, it often happens that the digestive 
organs fail to do their work properly. The 
waste material is not voided properly, with 
the result thatysomething akin to autointoxica¬ 
tion occurs. A proper amount of succulent 
green feed helps to overcome this tendency. 
It may not fully correct the trouble, however, 
and commercial poultrymen have sought out 
some other method of keeping the birds in 
good health. Where large laying flocks are 
kept it is now pretty generally the rule to give 
doses of Epsom salts in order to be on the safe 
side. One pound of salts to each 100 birds is 
given every two weeks during the period of 
heavy production. There are different methods 
of giving the salts, the best being, apparently, 
that of dissolving in the drinking water. I have 
also dissolved the salts in warm water and 
used the water to mix a moist mash. This 
assures the consumption of the drug at once. 
Handling the Breeders 
The second class of birds found upon the 
commercial egg farm are the old hens kept 
over for breeders. These require very different 
treatment from the pullets. Feed them as well 
as you will, you can scarcely get a ten percent 
production during the late fall and early 
winter. The object, then, in the daily routine 
of feeding and care is not to make the hens lay 
but to make them store up an abundance 
of bodily vigor so they will produce eggs that 
will hatch out strong chicks when the hatch¬ 
ing season arrives. The birds which are moult¬ 
ing now will be good layers. The poorer ones 
have been culled out during the summer and 
early fall. The good layers are always late to 
moult. Our feeding plans for the old hens, 
therefore, must take this into account. The 
active light-weight breeds of poultry will often 
do well upon the normal laying ration at this 
season. The protein feeds act to help grow the 
new crop of feathers. Birds like the Barred 
Rock are liable to put on too much flesh unless 
something is done to keep them down to 
healthy weight. Probably the best thing to do 
is to restrict the grain ration, then make the 
hens work harder to get it. Feed sparingly of 
scratch feed and feed it in extra deep litter at 
this season. The hens need lots of exercise and 
they will not take it if they can satisfy then- 
appetites without work. As the feathers fall 
out, the partially-moulted hens stand around 
on the roosts and in the sunny spots, taking 
just enough exercise to get a bite to eat now 
and then. It is of vital importance that old 
hens be made to work hard for their feed at 
this season. 
Sunflower Seed for Feathers 
Ten percent of oilmeal is often added to the 
mash at this season. It helps to grow the new 
crop of feathers. Sunflower seed is recom¬ 
mended for the same purpose but the oilmeal 
is usually easier to obtain. In my own poultry 
work, I usually raise sunflowers to feed the 
moulting hens at this season. After the frost 
kills the leaves and the heads are ripened, I 
dump them in the ffen pens and let the birds 
do the threshing. The object with old hens 
it to build up bodily vigor, so they will start 
laying in good shape by the last of January. 
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