POULTRY INDUSTRY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2635, 4 December 1915, Page 15

POULTRY INDUSTRY

(Br Chantecler.) Notes for the Novice. Protrusion' of the oviduct, or egg sac, is frequently noted in the poultry yard, aud, usually with old hens. It is caused by the straining to expel large eggs. To effect a cure the organ should be washed with warm water, oiled, and with the finger gently returned, keeping the hen's head downward in order to assist the operation. After this' a dose' of castor oil is recommended—about, a half-tea-spoonful for a grown bird. As a usual tiling no further treatment is required. If you find that tho eggs laid by your hens have a stale, musty flavour, you should look to the food, and take care ( that only clean, sound tucker is provided. Should tho rank flavour persist it may be due to disease—probably cloacitis or vent gleet—and in this case the cure is to kill tho bird and burn the body. Tlie most common cure l'or egg-eating is to fill an eggshell with mustard and pepper, and place it in the run. I don't liko any of these cures myself,. believing that tho proper thing is to kill tile offenders, aud thus to remove tho cause, and have done with the thing. A clot of blood in an egg is usually tho result of over stimulation, due to tho generous feeding, condiments, or irritant in the diet. The blood conies from ruptured blood vessels. When found in tiie white it is_due to rupture in the oviduct, and when in the yolk to a rupture in tho ovarium. The cure is to reduce the stimulating food—too much meat is generally tho cause—and to give Epsom salts at the rate of a packet to from 15 to 20' birds 6nce -a week, dissolved, and added to the mash. When a fowl is observed to frequently extend its , neck, tho probable ennso is indigestion, and the stretching is done m- order to remove tho pressure of the load ot indigested food. The cure' is to cut down the quantity of food supplied, green stuff." ° pUnty ° f °' OTcis6 I >»' 1 N.Z. UTILITY POULTRY CLUB'S COMPETITIONS. The official results of the thirty-fourth weekot the New Zealand Utility Poultry for row? f ti egir " layiu i> r competition tor iowls lor the week ended Tuesday, | November 30, arc as follow:— LIGHT BREEDS.

'■Total Total for to Vcrrali Bros., B.L H. Leger, S.C.W.L "" 32 810 Waikato E SS I'ar;u, S.C.W.l] 28 827 Colder Bros, S.C.W.L. 29 " 832 I Heretaunga P.O.,. No. 1, I &.C.W.L Og N. Soloriion, S.C.W.L "" 93 inJ. Wordsworth, S.C.W.L. 22 706 Dominion I'. Plant, S.C.W.L.... 28 670 M. P. Chapman, S.C.W.L 30-- 7G2 .•Mm.J. Mills, S.C.W.L 33 854 A. B. Browne, S.C.W.L 20 782 Heretaunga P.C., No 2 S.C.W.L ! 23 7«G T. M'llwraith, S.C.W.L. .....i... 22 (i51 C. Warburton, S.C.W.L 24, G09 A. G. Brailey, S.C.W.L. ; 28 840 -Wainoni P. Farm, S.C.W.L. ... 23 738 G. Ii. Hayne, S.C.W.L 30 870 A. W. Irvine, S'.C.W.L. 23 724 Ashburton P. Farm, S.C.W.L. 28 G37 Gfb. Catternl, S.C.W.L 33 G99 ) L. 'I'. Wright, S.C.W.T, 31 829 L. Macdonjild, S.C.W.L :.. 28 G49 Atkinson Bros., S.C.W.L 34 V18 A. E. Phillins, S.C.W.L 29 709 Dalmuir P. Yards, S.C.W.L.... 32 S57 B. P. I,. Clayson, S.C.W.L. ... 22 71S Green Bros., S.C.W.L; •; 30 798 Jack Ore-en, S.C.W.L. 33 877 A.'E. Wilson, S.C.W.L 3G 833 W. A. Nixon, S.C.W.L 28 719 IT. S. Woodnorth, S.C.W.L 28 845 R. Roxburgh, S.C.W.L. 28 093 R.- A. 'Lazarus, .S.C.W.L 28 704 A. W.' Adams. S.C.W.T,. 24 7G4 T. 'feocterley nnil Sons, S.C.W.L 30 G93 W. Davev, S.C.W.T; 30 790 W. A. Nixonj 3.O.W.L. 23 7G0 R. IT. .Tames. S.C.W.L 24 756 R. Mills, S.C.W.L. 34 83S S. L. Le=r?ett. S.C.W.L. .: 28 PB2 E. WilUs and Son. S:C.W.L. 24 784 George Gee, S.C.W.T,. 30 7311 Green Bits.,-. S.C.W.L 24 G57 Ran»hir<i Eg;? Ranch. S.C.W.L. 1G 509 The*. Iv-miedy. S.C.W.T 24 717 Calcic- Bros., No. 1. S.C.W.L. 28 ?2!) R. W. ntiwkc. S.C.W.T.- 23 psr. Mrs. 3PKinno«. S.C.W.L ?8 701 Green Bros., R.C.W.L 31 SO" Totals , 1353 3G.731 HEAVY BREEDS. Totnl Total for to week. dale. A. W. Adams. S.W 12 5Sn Green ' >:ros.. S.W 25 0j4 Pi. Onl;es, R.T.R 21 073 Cooper ;ind W.-iinscott, R.T.R. 1( 7fl7 M'. A. Nixon, R.l.R. 8' .272 A. F„ 'Wilson. W.W 24 510 M\ Kennedy, W.W 30 737 . W. A. Nixon. B.0 30 7G5 W. T,. Walker, E.O. 20 701 R. Willi-, B.0 '.. 24 «0H, W. Blocnifield, B.0 21 718 Totals : 226 7141

FOT! DTJCKR The Now fealMid Utility Poultry Club's sixth ccr-lriyinT tr u t for <lur';«. TMnrns for the thirtv-fourtli week are m follow " . ' Totnl Total for to ivonlt. (lnln. .T. R irorrott. T.Tt.. ;85 W T. T?„ Hall. T.l? 3" f'7 CI. L. TFnvno, Knrori. I.Tt 2!) 872 W. Davidson. r.T! 35 77!i Thomas "Dowtliw.iito. T.R 22 W7 W. Tviiisrhl. T.T? 2tl <W> - IV. Knight, T.T? .12 Km Wuiiioni V. Farm. T.l? 8 '.245 Totals 227 5720