ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 30

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

America, Tuakau.— TVe huve no firsthand knowledge of what the prospects are for poultrykeeping in California, and I think the best thing you can do to get “information as to the conditions ; out there in the poultry industry” is to j write to the editor of an American poultry paper such as the “American Poultry Journal” (Messrs. J. M. Bell and Co., 553 Plymouth Court. Chicago, 111.), and the “Reliable Poultry Journal” (Quincy, 111.). (2) The corning house plan was described in a book issued some years ago. It was the semiintensive system, but little, if anything, has been heard of it of late, probably because more recent methods have j superseded it. Pugnacious Male Bird.—S.A., Avondale: ! Pugnacious male birds are hard to deal with, and we do not know of anything you can do to bring about a reconciliation between your Ancona cock and the hen to whom he is so cruel. To save her you should remove her altogether from the pen until she comes into season again. If the cock then has to give vent to his spite, and commences on another hen, enter the run, and while he is thrashing the bird give him a drubbing with a light sack, buffeting him well, and do not desist until he is almost, if not quite, exhausted. After two or three such “lessons” he may behave decently toward his harem.