Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE]

POULTRY NOTES

Rape makes a good crop for late green food. Poultry is extremely profitable If properly handled. Poultry, fruit and bees form a combination hard to beat. Fowls have no sense of smell. They have nostrils,-but not noses. A cement floor in the laying pen and roosting closet is advisable. Don’t let lice “get away’’ with your chicks, while you wonder what ails them. Keep the males separated from the growing pullets. Both will develop better. Ducklings generally begin molting when eleven weeks old and continue for about six weeks. Don’t forget that wet and leaky coops do not tend to produce healthy chickens, but early death. It is a good plan to let all the breeding stock out of the yards to enjoy free range during the summer. Don’t try to breed from poor stock. It takes too long and good stock is cheap enough for you to start right. Free range for the flock greatly simplifies the feeding problem, because the fowls can balance their ration, to a large extent, with the food they pick •P.

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