The business hen (a new brood) . upplied with grit, oyster shew, bone, and mangels. Dryclover leaves and chaff are given them on the floor each day. One penof 30 hens were fed through last Winter in this way with good you figure this out by the table, multiplying amount of pure fatby 2]/2 and adding to the fat formers, you will see that the mash con-tains the following: cle Maker. Fat Former. Pure Fat. 200 Wheat bran 24 78 100 Corn meal 8 67 100 Linseed 2S to 100 Gluten 25 43 11. 100 Beef scraps 50 5 135 233 This is a proportion of about one to three and the cor
The business hen (a new brood) . upplied with grit, oyster shew, bone, and mangels. Dryclover leaves and chaff are given them on the floor each day. One penof 30 hens were fed through last Winter in this way with good you figure this out by the table, multiplying amount of pure fatby 2]/2 and adding to the fat formers, you will see that the mash con-tains the following: cle Maker. Fat Former. Pure Fat. 200 Wheat bran 24 78 100 Corn meal 8 67 100 Linseed 2S to 100 Gluten 25 43 11. 100 Beef scraps 50 5 135 233 This is a proportion of about one to three and the corn, oats and wheat willjust about give a proportion of all the food ot one to four. \Yquite sure that the hens which are fed on dry food eat enough of thebeef scrap to give about the same proportion. We do not give this rationas a model one, but as an illustration of how hens can be fed. Tt willpay to go over any ration in this way and see just what the hens arereceiving. We should have a few definite principles in mind, and then. PIG. 33. HANDY FEED BOX. 62 The Business Hen. try to satisfy our may be cases where skim-milk is cheapand plenty. If we used it in place of water we should need less linseed ormeat, as we can learn from our table. In many cases corn is by far thecheapest food. We can safely use large quantities of it if we use someform of meat with it to provide the needed muscle makers. Takingcare not to have the proportion of fat formers in our ration too large, weshould feed to please the hens, making them work for most of theirfood, and when once getting them satisfied making changes very slowly. Another method of feedinghens in Winter quarters isgiven here. This is useful ona dairy farm where skim-milkis handy : In the morning they aret< d about 10 quarts of dry feedin the litter in scratching sheds,the litter pushed up into a heap, and the grain scattered through it sothey must scratch ; the grain is usually half cracked corn and half wheat,sometime
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