POULTRY NOTES

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42746, 11 July 1905, Page 3

POULTRY NOTES

For eggs to come thick and fast fowls must be well attended to, The food musr bo good and suitable. The grit supply is perhaps of the first importance. Greenstuff come 3 a good sreond, and meat third. Exercise, of course, must be taken for granted. . The male bird should not be old or seedy. The li p n 1 sho 1.1 not be allowed to bee *uie fat and lazy. Very few people realise how sensitive the egg is to bad odours, and many even thiuk that the shell is a sufficient pro'ecti n aga : nst any con» taminaiio.u from without. But ths shell is porous, and the albumen, or white of the egg, quickly absorbs and holds the flavour of any bad odour to wh:eh it is exposed, as it also does to any bad flavour iu the food which is given. A writer in the ‘ Farmers’ Monthly ’ says th;if it is scarcely less! suspecdble in this respect than the milk products. As devoid of the sense of taste, care should be taken only to give her wellflavoured foods, and the of partially decayed meat or fish, onions and other smelling food should never be allowed when hens are laying. If it is found necessary to use kerosene on the nests do it at night, that the oduur might evaporate before the hens use them. But a better way is to get clean boxes from the storekeeper when the old ones get so that they need to kerosened.