. Common sense in the poultry yard : A story of failures and successes. Including a full account of 1000 hens and what they did, with a complete description of the houses, coops, fences, runs, methods of feeding, breeding, marketing, etc. ... Poultry. '38- COMMON SENSE their convenience, but we did not get many eggs in them. Ninety per cent, of the eggs were laid in the houses. In winter the programme was, of course, considerably varied. Wlien the snow was deep many of the sheds were inaccessible, but when tlie ground was clear they were all frequented during the day. Instead of sending the he
. Common sense in the poultry yard : A story of failures and successes. Including a full account of 1000 hens and what they did, with a complete description of the houses, coops, fences, runs, methods of feeding, breeding, marketing, etc. ... Poultry. '38- COMMON SENSE their convenience, but we did not get many eggs in them. Ninety per cent, of the eggs were laid in the houses. In winter the programme was, of course, considerably varied. Wlien the snow was deep many of the sheds were inaccessible, but when tlie ground was clear they were all frequented during the day. Instead of sending the hens off hungry feeding grounds, however, I gave them soft feed, well cooked, and consist- ing of corn meal, bran, ground oats and rye, flesh, bone dust, finely ])owdered oyster shells, etc. Of course the proportion of the latter ingredients was small. A litde salt, and sometimes a little red pepper were also mixed with the food. This was made into a very stiff paste, being, in fact, worked like baker's dough, and was then placed in troughs, which were made in very simple fashion. Fig. 11. by nailing two narrow boards together along the edges, and closing the ends by means of two square pieces, as shown in tlie engraving Fig. II. In order to prevent the birds from getting their feet into these troughs and defiling the food, I nailed a strip across the top as shown in the figure. It answered the puii)ose admirably. All our birds, without exception, would rush for these troughs, so that even the slowest feeders got their sliare. Tliey then went to scratching in the feeding sheds of their yards, and in tliis way got [)lenty of exercise. When the snow was on the ground, and no green food was to be had, we hung cabbages all around the sheds and let them peck away at them. We also mixed some very finely cut dried clover with their feed. By passing it through a feed cutter and also through a mill, we got it down almost to a Please note that these images are extracted f
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