POULTRY POINTS.

Shannon News, 27 January 1925, Page 3

POULTRY POINTS.

Chickens that are late or backward in feathering may. be given a warming ingredient in their soft food to advantage. Unless the fowls have plenty of opportunity to exercise during the winter, they will become weak and sluggish and more liable to disease. _ Pure breds are more prolific layers, giving a more uniform size and colour to the egg, and the young stock mature more uniformly and give better carcases and utilise the food consumed to a better advantage than is the case with either orossbreds or mongrels. The profits of the poultry man depend very largely upon the health pf the flock; vigour and vitality are the factors which make money for him. A sifck chicken is of little value, usually costing more to cine than it iS worth after curing, with the chances greatly in favour of its dying rather than of getting well. All the breeders with big records In laying competitions owe their success to tlie fact that the foundation thereof has usually been one very fine layer,. discovered by means of single testing, and then bred from.