Intending poultry keepers may think fowls are prone to many ailments, but common-sense feeding and attention to cleanliness will eliminate 99 per cent of poultry diseases. Lack of cleanliness affords conditions favourable to increase of bacteria and parasites, reduction in power of resistance. Dampness reduces vitality and leads to chills and inflammation. Tainted soil acts … Read more
Let us consider keeping chickens in towns from the position of a suburban self sufficiency enthusiast who has a plot of ground mainly devoted to the cultivation of ornamental flowers, shrubs, and grass. He may have an allotment elsewhere and there he will be able to cultivate the vegetables required by his small family throughout … Read more
FEEDING CHICKS Other requisites for chick rearing are containers for water and food. A water fountain, which can be arranged by inverting a glass jam jar of water in a pan, and a small wooden trough for food is all that is needed. To start chicks feeding a little dry food is dropped first on … Read more
The next ambitious step from the keeping of a few backyard pullets or hens is breeding. For this the poultry keeper must provide himself with a good cockerel, which should be not less than ten months old when put in the pens with the hens. It is extremely important to choose a good .cockerel. Remember … Read more
There are several well proven systems of feeding chickens. The ideal is to give each hen as much food as she will eat in a day, and no more. This is in the neighbourhood of 4 oz. of food per day. The food will be mash and grain. The grain feeds the bird, and the … Read more
A new laid egg from your own hens. What a joy this brings to the novice in poultry keeping. You get all this pleasure and excitement added to the very considerable profit that a few chickens will bring you, if you turn over a few square yards of your back garden to intensive poultry keeping. … Read more