Keeping Chickens Newsletter
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July 2008
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Diary of A Poultry
Keeper
"Still hot, and necessary to keep all the drinking-water in a shady place. With birds laying heavily they drink enormous quantities of water, and see that they are never a moment without it. Better stint them in food than in water at this time. The more water they drink the more eggs they will lay, and you should rejoice every time you have to fill the water trough.
Feed fairly generously, so
that the birds will not slack in the egg supply or begin to moult
too early. Eggs are beginning to mount in price and it is essential
you should get plenty for the market. With proper handling few
birds should begin to moult just yet.
Keep a watch on your young stock, and keep putting food into them, but do not make it stimulating. Some of the birds - a small minority - may be backward, and these should be separated from the quick growers and specially catered for. In a month you will be able to tell which of them are to be any good. All the others get rid of, even if you have to give them away. It is now a suitable time for
doing odd jobs in the way of painting or repairs. A nail in time
saves nine." |
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