DISEASE AMONG POULTRY
MORE RAMPANT TODAY. Why is it that disease is so much more rampant today than it was 12 or 13 years ago? “The Smallholder” (England) asks this question and answers it as follows: — Is it, as many competent observers believe, that the average poultrykeeper has got too far from nature in the feeding of his birds and especially of his young chickens? It is certainly a remarkable fact that this wave of high mortality has coincided with a period of intensive dry mash feeding. A bird has no teeth but depends upon its gizzard, and hard grit in that gizzard, for grinding its food. A chicken with a flabby gizzard will almost certainly grow into a hen liable to suffer from digestive troubles and without sufficient resistance to disease. The remedy, then, is surely to get back to more natural methods of feeding and to give our chicks hard grain and seeds which will force their gizzards to act as nature intended them to act.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 3
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