Western Poultry Book

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Segnogram Press, 1912 - Chicken industry - 212 pages
 

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Page 103 - ... the ventral side of the body and in the fluff under the wings. Its efficiency, which is greater than that of any other lice powder known to the writer, can be very easily demonstrated by anyone to his own satisfaction. Take a bird that is covered with lice and apply the powder in the manner just described. After a lapse of about a minute, shake the bird, loosening its feathers with the fingers at the same time, over a clean piece of paper. Dead and dying lice will drop on the paper in great numbers....
Page 96 - When the door is set, the half inch section of the wire marked A comes under a hard wood peg or a tack with a large round head, which is driven into the lower edge of the door frame. The hen passes in through the circular opening and in doing so presses the wire to one side, and the trip slips from its connection with the door. The door promptly swings down and fastens...
Page 120 - ... 50 dozen eggs; so that the cost of material would not exceed 1 cent a dozen. Pure water that has been boiled and then cooled should be used. To each 15 to 20 quarts of water 1 quart of water-glass should be added. The solution should be prepared, placed in the jar or other suitable vessel, and the fresh eggs added from time to time until the jar is filled; but be sure that there is 2 inches of the solution covering the eggs. The eggs should not be washed before packing, for washing injures the...
Page 97 - ... acts quickly enough to catch the door before it rebounds. It was feared that the noise arising from the closing of the door might startle the hens, so instead of wooden stops, pieces of old rubber belting were nailed at the outside entrances for the door to strike against. The double box with nest in the rear end is necessary, as when a bird has laid and desires to leave the nest, she steps to the front and remains there until released. With one section only, she would be very likely to crush...
Page 96 - ... end and 15 inches from the front end. The back section is the nest proper. Instead of a close door at the entrance, a light frame of inch by inch and a half stuff is covered with wire netting of one inch mesh.
Page 120 - A dry cool cellar ia a good place. If the eggs are kept in too warm a place the silicate is deposited and the eggs are not properly protected. Do not wash the eggs before packing, for by so doing you injure their keeping quality, probably by dissolving the mucilaginous coating on the outside of the shell. For packing, use only perfectly fresh eggs, for stale eggs will not be saved and may prove harmful to the others. * * " Water glass is a very cheap product, that can usually be produced at not to...
Page 209 - ... remedy for fowls, but he states that turkeys are unfavorably affected by it. It may be given in doses of 30 to 45 grains mixed with butter and made into pills. Male fern is also a very effectual remedy and may be used in the form of powder (dose 30 grains to i dram) or of liquid extract (dose 15 10.30 drops).
Page 96 - ... close to the open door of the pens for cleaning out worn material, and delivering new bedding, and also in allowing attendants to enter and leave all pens from the outside walk, and reach the feed room without passing through intervening pens. TRAP NESTS. The nest which we use is original with us. It is very simple, inexpensive, easy to attend and certain in its action. It is a box-like structure without front end or cover, 28 inches long, 13 inches wide and 16 inches deep, inside measure. A...
Page 103 - Do not use more plaster in mixing than is necessary to blot up the liquid. This powder is to be worked into the feathers of the birds affected with vermin. The bulk of the application should be in the fluff around the vent and on the ventral side of the body and in the fluff under the wings. Its efficiency, which is greater than that of any other lice powder known to the writer, can be very easily demonstrated by anyone to his own satisfaction.
Page 203 - I will tell you what I would do, were I in your place," the young chief rejoined. " As soon as I got to Cairo, I would send for the richest slavemerchant in the market, and I would choose twenty of the prettiest women for myself. I would then send for the richest jewelers, and would make them give me up a good share of their stock. I would then do the same...

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