POULTRY NOTES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 269, 9 August 1919, Page 12

POULTRY NOTES

(By "Chanticleer.") A Compliment to Poultry-keeping. For poultrymen at tho conference to approvo and request that returned men be placed on poultry settlements was to bo expected, but when a body of business men elected to a Repatriation Hoard, nono of whom' aro directly interested in poultrykeeping, advance a proposal for a poultry settlement, to absorb some of tho returned men, It is a compliment to the industry. They recognised the value of such work, :ind were sanguine a .success could bo made of tho venture. They received in Oantorbury 25 applications for sections. Prom thcao they deoided to select 5 or 10, and asked the Government to give them land for a settlement and advanco the money necessary for the houses and plants. The request was all in order in February last, and had the achemo been encouraged tho seltlemant would havo been Toady for tho coming hatching season.

Noto3. Tho Now Zealand Utility Poultry Club has already received several applications for pens for next year'B test. The class of returned soldiers arranged by Captain Moore for instruction in poultry culture at Chriatchurch is keen and outhusiastio A number of leading poultry men are giving addresses, and their services aro much appreciated. A correspondent writes to say that she had a hen die during tho week. On examination it showed that no fewer than 16 eggs had accumulated in the abdomen. An explanation is asked for. Tho causo of the trouble was a rupture causing the eggs to slip through into the oviduct Tho eggß would bo fully formed, and death -would eventually a-esnlt. Had the hen been taken and the oviduct repaired in the early stages of tho defect, its lite could have been saved. We havo frequently Eeen birds with 4 to 6 eggs in tho abdomen, but 16 eggs is tho largest number of. which wo havo heard. At tho meeting of the Utility Olub .on Tuesday evening it was shown that high dropping boards or perches wero injurious to the feet of tho heavy breeds. Birds feet aro very sensitive, and tho ball_ or the fo.it is liable to bo bruised, causing bumble-foot. „ t , Tho money received for. the first four months of the Papanui test shows an mcroaso of nearly £70 for the eggs received for tho corresponding period last Tho Management Committee of the Utility Olub recommend that tho whole of tho test for next year be single-pen tested. It suggested that a Teport bo Drought before the club at an early dato on the following matters. Ohange of locality, type of business, limitation of tho competitors, amount of entry feeß, raising capital for tho improvements, and luture considerations for advancement. The following aro the -winners of the winter test in the egg-laying single-pen tost:-S. h. Beer, 93; J. B. Jferrott, E7; Beck and Oakley, 87; E. .Marßdcn, 86.. An Orpington hen in tho Papanui test has laid 107 eggs in 100 days. This, gives the Australian record of 108 eggs in 100 days a very near go. •japn.u. oih ui sj3.d;[ .tajiao oil? poMpieuoo toot 'g,di.v.rn oa-bu. spoaiq .Uijoh 'spao.ui jCai!3l[ oiu mvn ,iO}uui otw Burjnp je-yioq •?nao .Kid cj p|iq OAiiq spowq V\S\\ oqi }uio 6A10U.8 muudiud ye piy oqj.