Save the Poultry From Mites and Lice
Extension Poultryman O C Wufford explains cost saving pest control for Colorado flocks. Lice infestations harm health and production. control methods include blue ointment with petroleum jelly around vents, dusting powders, nicotine sulphate for perches, and house spraying with stock dips or carbolic acid. Treat infestations again after ten days. Spring is best for prevention.
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O. C. Wufford
Extension Poultryman
Colorado Agricultural College
WNU
Colorado
Vitamin rich rations improve egg quality says OSU study
Ohio State University poultry department reports experiments showing vitamin A and D levels in hens feed directly raise egg vitamin content. A rich ration with yellow corn alfalfa leaf meal or cod liver oil boosts egg quality and hen health, with vitamin D preventing rickets and aiding bone formation.
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Department of Poultry Husbandry
Ohio State University
Early and Late Chicks Hatch Time Advantage
Early hatched chicks enjoy vigour, lower mortality, and higher sale and egg-laying potential. Later hatchers face more pest issues such as worms and mites as weather heats up, reducing vitality and increasing losses later in the season.
Poultry as Income Source Cited For Low Mortality
Poultry for Income Science notes mortality in chicken flocks is now a minor risk. It highlights returns from meat and eggs, with chicks as the key measure of profitability, and points to attractive today prices for equipment whose long service life keeps annual costs low.
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Poultry For
Selecting Vigorous Chicks for Healthy Baby Chicks
Vigorous baby chicks have full bright eyes, downy fluff, are plump and have well rounded shanks. Look for freedom from bacillary white diarrhea, weigh eight pounds per 100 chicks at 24 hours, and ensure well healed openings where yolk was absorbed with pigmented shanks and beaks. Chicks from healthy breeding flocks and high egg producers are preferable.
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Nebraska
Diarrhoea in Fowls and Feeding Spoiled Food
Diarrhoea in fowls may be caused by spoiled food and garbage. Inspect feed and waste to remove spoiled meat or moldy items. A dose of epsom salts, one pound in the drinking water of 100 fowls, or mixed with wet mash, can clean the digestive organs.
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New-Yorker
The Fame of Beengal. A Bengal travel portrait in brief
Prepared by National Geographic Society WNU Service, the piece surveys Bengal in India from the Sundarbans to Darjeeling. It notes rhinoceros protection, Bengal tiger lore, Calcutta’s growth, the Hooghly river corridor, Calcutta landmarks, and Darjeeling as a Himalayan summer retreat with Kinchinjunga visible from ridge towns and tea plant landscapes throughout.
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Natiional Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU Service
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