. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . r to kill a sick turkey than to let heramong your flock of healthy birds. When the males mate with the females and they areextra heavy and clumsy, it is well to see that the maledoes not tear the female or hurt her back. A verj goodway to prevent this is to file down the toe nails of themale. I have seen them manj times slip off of the femaleand rip open the hips or side. It is vei-y easy to discoveran injured female by her action
. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . r to kill a sick turkey than to let heramong your flock of healthy birds. When the males mate with the females and they areextra heavy and clumsy, it is well to see that the maledoes not tear the female or hurt her back. A verj goodway to prevent this is to file down the toe nails of themale. I have seen them manj times slip off of the femaleand rip open the hips or side. It is vei-y easy to discoveran injured female by her actions, more especiallj the nextday, as she will be lame and her wings will droop. It isbest to catch her at once and examine the wound, asgenerally they can be saved by sewing up the tear. Thisis not a very difficult matter. Let one person hold theturkey and another do the sewing. Pull all the feathersfrom the edges of the wound, and with warm watermoisten them so they will stay back while you are put-ting in the stitches. Before sewing, the wound shouldbe washed thoroughly with castile soap, using a small,soft sponge; then take a long, fine needle and with white. A Mixed Flock them to stay. Just before dark they will go up in thetrees or on a roost that has been put up for them. Withthe Iight kind of breeding stock turkeys at Thanksgivingtime should weigh about as follows: Toms, sixteen totwenty pounds; hens, twelve to fourteen pounds. I havedressed at six months old, turkeys weighing twenty-fourjiounds, but they are rare. PEEDINO THE BREEDING STOCKThere are two things which have to be done in orderto have success in breeding. One of them is to get theright kind of breeding stock, and the other is to feedthem properlj. These are the two main things. Theproper waj^ to feed breeding stock is to be careful not tooverfeed them. After your breeders are selected, feedalmost entirely on oats (scalded). I find they do betteron oats than on any other food. For a change, feedwhole corn abou
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