ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Old Subscriber. — You do not give any information as to description oi quantity of food you supp!>, but frotn the two fasts you mention — i.e., that they eat well to^ the ?«si and show lameness before they 'tie — I conclude (1) tbat you are overfeeding ; (2) that your birds are getting interneliy fat , (S) that the livers are becoming en!«x»ed. If on opening a bird thai, has ■liei jou Sad the ccaoitions I have mentioned, feed your fowls on pats and green food onij fo. two or three iv«eks. Overfed and over-fat birds become abnonual feeders, an<? rush for their feed with even greater eagerness than Ac half-fed oirtls; ' so that, if ycu reduce the supply, you will Sud in about a week'? time that they are easier satisfied ana will Icy better.
It is said that for the first time since their construction the artesian wells at Raupo, Northern Wairoa, hays run dry.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 35
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157ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 35
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