. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . y barns or stables in which little chicks may bestarted, and if these places are not needed, thechick(?ns may continue to roost in them until fall. Lit-tle chicks raised about the barns usually grow rapidlyand seem to thrive. They are seldom or never troubledwith bronchitis or catarrh or colds of any kind. Ifthe hens are confined in the barns with them for aweek or so—the length of time depending on theweather—they will usually come to the barn to befed at meal time, and are very little trouble. Careshould be taken to see that barn chickens a
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . y barns or stables in which little chicks may bestarted, and if these places are not needed, thechick(?ns may continue to roost in them until fall. Lit-tle chicks raised about the barns usually grow rapidlyand seem to thrive. They are seldom or never troubledwith bronchitis or catarrh or colds of any kind. Ifthe hens are confined in the barns with them for aweek or so—the length of time depending on theweather—they will usually come to the barn to befed at meal time, and are very little trouble. Careshould be taken to see that barn chickens are sup-plied with plenty of pure water, lest they learn todrink from pools in the barnyard. Remedy for Colds.—Little chicks, through ex-posure, often contract colds which cause them tosneeze frequently or to breathe with difficulty. Allsuch cases should be treated as soon as possible. Afew drops of kerosene oil injected into the nose andthroat with a medicine dropper will usually bring im-mediate relief, and one or two treatments will effect. 320 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. a cure, if the cause is removed and the bird is in athrifty condition otherwise. Care should be takennot to use for breeding stock chickens that havebeen thus afTected. The disease is not roup and isnot, perhaps, in this form contagious, but a birdmight transmit the tendency, which in some futuregeneration under certain conditions might developinto roup. In poultry raising an ounce of preven-tion is sometimes worth many pounds of cure. Lice on Little Chicks.—Should there be any ofthese pests, either the big head-lice or those that in-fest the body, chicks should be dipped in somegood sheep dip or lightly greased on head andthroat, on the tail bone, about the vent, and underthe wings with fresh lard or carbolized vaseline orsweet oil, to which may be added one or two dropsof carbolic acid to lOO drops of oil, or sassafras oilin the proportion of one ounce of the sassafras tosix ounces of the sweet oil.
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