THE POULTRY INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 19

THE POULTRY INDUSTRY

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Christchurch Poultry show. New Zealand's premier poultry show opened in King Edward Barracks, Christchurch, on Thursday, Juno 18. The entries are tho largest for several years, and tho show' as a whole the finest exhibition which has been held since the club was formed forty-seven .years ago. Tho exhibits have come from all parts of the Dominion, as it his recognised that a win at Christchurch tho highest distinction for the fancy in tho Dominion. The total entry is 1681. In conjunction 'with the show the Department .of Agriculture has made an. excellent exhibit. The . space occupied covers 6000 fe'ot of floor space. The cereals make a fine display, and reflect high credit on" the Department's officers. The list of entries also gives an insight into tho classes of poultry bred and kept in tho Dominion. They are as follow:— Modern and Old English Game 34 Indian Game !) Brown Leghorn 34 White- Leghorn- 19 Black Leghorn 25 Blue and Buff Leghorn 2 Andalusiau 12 I: Minorca 28 Ancona 59 White Plymouth Rock IS ~ Barred Rock 11 Black Orpington 32 ■Cinnamon and Bufi Orpington 46 White Orpington 12 : Golden Wyaudotto IS .' Silver Wyndotto 44 White Wyandotte 37 Partridge Wyandotte- 3 Hamburg 18 Favorelles and Sussex 7 Rhode Island and Campine .... 4 Gamo Bantams 13 Black, White, Pekin, and Seablight 51 Ducks ~.,.,, 15 Turkeys , 15 Geeso 2 Ladies' Bracelet 15 Crowing Competition 4 Utility Poultry 135 Eggs , 43 Selling Classes 37 Pouter and Cropper Pigeons ... 8 •■ Dragoon .". 57 Fantail, Jacobin, and Owl ...... 15 Turbit ...',.... 4 Tumbler 87 Magpie ...„ 29 Junior Fancy Classes 14 Selling Glasses, etc: 4 Working Homer Pigeons 306 Yorkshire Canaries 52 Norwich Canaries 135 Singing Canaries .: :.... 10 ; Selling Classes, etc 25 . Cage Birds 12 Cats 133 Total .....;... 1631 An American Notion. Director T. E. Q.uisenberry, of the Missouri egg-laying contest, although an Anferican, seems to talk common sense. He states his preference for a hen that is long lived and of strong vitality, rather than the ono that lays herself out in one or two laying years: Ho also, tolls how to feed the young chicks to secure tho best growth and early maturity.' He says: "The day a chick leaves the shell it is endowed with sill tho yolks, or ova, or eggs, that it can ever lay—and several thousand more. Nearly every chick's body possesses several thousand of these tiny .yolks,.and it is possible to count as many as several thousand in practically every pullot. No amount of feeding, no system of housing, no method of caro and management, however good it may 'be, will add one moro yolk to tho number already provided by The method of breeding, feeding, housing, and caro determines largely tho number of tiny yolks which any hen will be able to ripen or 'develop into full-sized yolks and manufacture into tho finished product. Breeding has more influence over this than any other ono tiling. Do not get an idea that you.feed a lien to feed yolks and eggs'into her-body. You feed her for tho purpose of. enabling her to develop . the yolks, which Nature and breeding have already provided. Man has taken the jungle fowl, which laid only a few.eggs per year, hut was of longer life than our domestic fowl of to-day, and he, has bred and improved the wild fowl until we '■ now. have hens'laying 300 eggs in a year aud 1000 eggs in a lifetime "of only a few years. Naturo never intended that any hen should lay 200 or 300 eggs in a year.. By increasing production to many times what the wild fowl laid annually, man has shortoned the life, and, in most cases, has decreased tho vitality, compared with that of the original fowl. Modern methods have not only increased the production of a lifetime, but we are also foroing the over-workod hen to deliver her 15 or 20 years' supply in two or three years, as a rule." On Chick-raising. As the chicken season is now near at hand, the following article, taken from a Montreal paper, and which deals with the subject with thoroughness, is well worth perusal:—''\Vc sprinkle a little clover chaif, shredded alfalfa, tine-cut straw, or clean litter, I roe lrom must and mould, over the lloor of the brooder or hover before the' chicks aro place in it. We provide a small fountain of sour milk or butter-milk for at least tho lirst half of the day, and water may be provided for the last half. If von cannot get the milk, then see that pure water is always before them.. Wc prefer sour milk to the use of sweet milk for the reason that much of the bacteria which.we find in the, intestinal tract cannot grow-and develop in sour milk or buttormilk, but sweet milk has not the same effect. . The acid of milk aids digestion, kills bacteria, and has an appetising effect.. The chicks aro not fed for 48 hours or more after they are hatched. Don't feed too soon. Give the chicks time to assimilate the yolk of the egg, which contains enough food to last tlieni several days. Begin by feeding a mixture of 2-3 rolled oats and 1-3 wheat bran mixed with a small amount of charcoal. Oatmeal is ,the finest food known to givo young animals. This is fed on a clean board or paper four or fivo times a day, and only a small quantity fed at a time. Wn remove the feeding-board after the chicks are through eating. Clean, coarse sand, or fine feed is given, and no grit is given before. After the chicks are four days old, and you have been feeding them rolled oats and bran for a day or two, wc begin to 'add a little commercial chick feed to the above mixture, and gradually increase this until tho rolled oats and bran are eliminated from the first or grain feed. The rolled oats and bran are fed morning, noon, and night, and a good grade of commercial chick "food is thrown into the little follows to exercise, and they soon begin to scratch as vigorously as if they had been at il for many weeks. You can almost'see ' them grow and develop, and become active and husky. \ At the age of four or lice days begin to feed a day mash made as follows:— Twoparts wheat bran', one part corn meal, one-half part rolled oats or oatmeal, one part shorts. . To every hundred pounds of the above mixture we add a handful, of fine'charcoal, a handful of bone meal, and half a pound of fine table salt, mixing it in thoroughly. When the chicks'are about six wopks old. their ration of chick feed and rolled oats can be gradually changed to cracker! corn, wheat, or kafiir corn. Continue (he dry mash. Look out for lire snd mites. Keep the chicks dry. i Sour milk used for the start will check

white diarrhoea. (Jet the chisks iirto , colony hwses and ort free rouge and tresh KroMid as soon as passible. Feed 1 them from hoppers. Thev vtijl grow j taster and do "better as a.'rule. The , average amatcnr docs not know as much [ about feeding the "chicks t-lwmsdves. t iiet the grain food for tho growing ( stock ho composed princijiallv of equal . parts ot cracked corn and wheat fed in L hoppers. If ee d the dry mash in the . same way. Give a. moistened mash to [ the Rrowmg stock (Mice each dav. We , nave had a number of. cockerels fed in [ this way that developed, so rapidly that ; they werft eroding vigorously ' irlietl . seven weeks ok!.''' ; Notes. , . Mr. W. Knight, Lower H«H. h sp«d- ---• ■me, .per the Tainw, to Monte'VMeo a ■ ~ coiis.Rnnwilt of purebred poultry —three Indian Hirmmrs, throe White Rocks, and two White Leghorn eockw s-to Mr. H. Blake. " Mr, Bkki , from Mr Wirt, M a these have d«,« LI I • llati '? lia ? s * ijt '- iljc «rder for those being shipped. EGG-LAYIKacOMPETmONS. The official results for the tenth week Clubs tenth laying competition for \°Z l e or tho Tuesday, June 16, are. as iojlow:— LIGHT BREEDS. fetal Total ■for to ,7 „ „ week. date. Urral) Bros B-L 22 178 >U fiercer, W.I/. g] Yerrall Bros., W.L. 30 176 Dominion P. Plant, W.L.... 19 Qi Heictaimga P.C., No. 2, W.L ~..,,. ' f>l .. 140 Gleneoe Poultry .Ranch, » -Ij '>f)T 9M W. 0. Sail, W.L i "2 A. R, Browne W.t 24 igr) Mrs. J. Mills, W.L ~. 3 igQ G. Clarke, No. 2, W.L 22 100 Rangiuru Egg Ranch,. AY.L, 31 156 Gr. Bounett, W.L 27 221 D. Y. Gibsmi, 'W.L, % y 247 Beliablo P. Farm., W.L,.,, 23 20U Wainoni P. Farin, W.L. ... 2S 211 J. Wordsworth, W.L 30 222 H. S. Wood-north, W.L. ... 22 9S H. F. Herbert, W.L 25 101 H. Legcr, W.L, 15. Hl2 T. M'llwraitii, W.L. ....'....'. . 18 124 T. White, W.L 22 94 T.Tose, W.L '. 19 161 B. P. L. Clayson, W.L '.' 31 171 E. James, W.L. ..." ....;■■ 30 ,148 N. - Solomon, W.L. Ml : 219 R.A. Lazarus., AV.L/ U 241 Heretaunga P. 0., No, 1 W.L 2,3 247 Wainoni P. Farm, W.L. .„ SB 188 J. W. Green, W.L 29 199 ■ Willis and Sflii, W.L, ....... 38 208 G. Clarke, W.L. ..; '23 163 J. Corrie, W.L. ») 60 M. Stewart, W.L. 2§. 58 , A. G. Brailey, WX. 81 87 : A. W. Adams, W.L. 255 229 ' Calder Brosj \VX •..,.,..;.. 82 183 '■ L. T. Wright., W.t. ...,„... 20 129 i W. E. Green," W.L. W 125 W. Davey, W.L 22 70 " R. W. Hawe s W.L. 20 23.1 . J. W. Green, Pi.C.AVJL ... 29 M {T. Krarup, B.M 25 155 ! Totals 1004 6423 ; heavy, breeds. Total Total ' for to ■week, date, T.'Kennedy, AV.W. 11 106 I J. B. Merrett, W S R, ...... 13 57 T. Fazackerley, B;0, ...... 7 193 1 Mrs.'J. W. i&reeH, B.AY. 27 137 ; AV. Scull," BAV , 20 127 R, Hunger, Bi 0 .* 24 18.9 Miss Rita N&em, Bi. O. ..,' 33 285 Miss R. E. Ltfing, BL 0. ... %i 86 A. R,. Browne, 81, 0. 26 03 ; E. Willis,. BL 0." 21 152 J. B. Merrett, 8.1. 0 .■.,■16 . 120 ' J. B. Merrett,/ &\V. '..,«»..• 62 ' A. W. Adams, S.W. ..,> TG .40 ' Jas. Ashton, &.AV. ~,>.'.'...;,,.. fe . ' M T.Kemiedv, S,At?, ...,;.;..„...,- & ■- 123 1 Thos. AVils'on, 5.AY.......,.,., .IS' 135 ! W. R. Green s S.AY. ;,:.,;.,.. 3!> 143 [ R.. Roxburgh, &W."v..;Lv v IS 64 ; !'■ ■ . Totals .„.v.4;,.>/-330- ' 2243 ; FOR BtKMS.: [.■ The New Zealand Utility PcmHtv ; Club's-fifth egg.4a.vtne test" for. dnelc-s. ; Returns for the tenth week are a« ; f# ,: 1 low:—r ; Tots.) fetal for to ; : w*ek. dat*. 1 T. Dowthwaite, I.R 11 36 1 Heretaunga P. 0., 1.R.. ... 30 175 ' AVainoni P. Fa-rm, I.R. ... 0 0 ' Gleneoo Ranch, Lit 23 , 17$ -, Evans and Jobnatone-. I.R, 12 ■ 5S T. R, Hall, I.R, ~:,., 5 , y . Totals .; SI 447 | The letters after each entry donate the breed, as under:—B.L.," Brown Leghorn; W.L., White Leahariu Bit, ■ Black Minorca: W.W., AVJiitc 'Wyan- : dotte; AY.R.. AYhhe Rock; 0.0., Buff ! Orpington; B.AV,, Stack 'AYvandotte; • ' 81.0., Black Orjiii-igtoi; S.W., Silver J AYyandottes; LR t! Indian Rnniwrs, ; ■ In the utility classes at the Pst-mer- | ston North Show, B. Sutherland, of , Brooklyn, was awarded first pffee for , White Leghorn puHrt. The entries , (24) in this class were ,1 record for the ; show.