Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . ey aresanitary in their construction. A good practical container consists of a metal trough withcross-bars arranged on the top so the birds cannot get theirfeet in the water. Milk is an excellent food for young andold birds alike. Besides being a stimulant to egg productionthe sour milk contains lactic acid, which when taken into thedigestive tract of the bird forms an unfavorable field for manyof the harmful bacteria, like the Bacillus pullorum, causingwhite diarrhea in chicks, and wards off other forms of diarrheain young and old alike. The troughs sh
Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . ey aresanitary in their construction. A good practical container consists of a metal trough withcross-bars arranged on the top so the birds cannot get theirfeet in the water. Milk is an excellent food for young andold birds alike. Besides being a stimulant to egg productionthe sour milk contains lactic acid, which when taken into thedigestive tract of the bird forms an unfavorable field for manyof the harmful bacteria, like the Bacillus pullorum, causingwhite diarrhea in chicks, and wards off other forms of diarrheain young and old alike. The troughs should be washed oncea day with a 5 per cexit. carbolic acid solution or some otherequally good disinfectant. The fronts of the houses should be made open and guardedby chicken netting and provided with muslin curtain on theinside to pull down in zero weather. This makes it necessaryto have a window in each end of the house to admit light inthese times when the curtain is down. The curtain beingporous admits of ventilation. SANITATION 213. 3 — „ %. i^gS^ ».«sa^^ m Fig. 90.—A group of nine different types of eomiuercial fraiiiuirj- water containers.
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