Poultry Breeding; a Complete Guide for Keepers of Poultry
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The method of feeding the pullets is very simple. Separate protected troughs are kept filled with cracked corn, wheat, beef scrap, cracked bone, oyster shell and grit, one kind of feed in a trough, where the pul- lets can help themselves whenever they desire. Fresh water is kept before them. There are no regular hours for feeding, hut care is taken that the troughs are never empty. Since 1905 another trough containing the fol- A GUIDE FOR KEEPERS OF POULTRY 155 lowing mixture has been kept wher...e the pullets had free access to it : Wheat bran 1 part, by weight Cornmeal 2 parts, by weight Middlings 1 part, by weight Beef scrap 1 part, by weight The result has been satisfactory. This method saves labor in feeding and the chicks do not hang around the troughs and overeat, but help themselves to a little at a time, then going oflf to hunt insects, and coming back when hunger inclines them to do so. It has been found that chicks allowed to choose for themselves eat just about the same quantity of beef scrap that experience teaches is best for them.
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