. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . VALUABLE POINTERS IN FEEDING FREE RANGE FLOCKS The growing chicks on the Almy plant are all reared in large stone-fenced fields, some considerable distance from the farm buildings. All food and water must be carted to them. As these chicks all have free range and roam at will, it is nec- essarj' to adopt some plan to avoid their crowding at meal times. Right here Mr. Almy gives a valuable po
. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . VALUABLE POINTERS IN FEEDING FREE RANGE FLOCKS The growing chicks on the Almy plant are all reared in large stone-fenced fields, some considerable distance from the farm buildings. All food and water must be carted to them. As these chicks all have free range and roam at will, it is nec- essarj' to adopt some plan to avoid their crowding at meal times. Right here Mr. Almy gives a valuable pointer to poul- trymen whose birds crowd and cause trouble at feeding time. He contends and with good reason that when chicks or fowls ex- pect to have the food arrive at and from a certain point each day, they are bound to congregate there in an endeavor to an- ticipate the coming of the food. That is where trouble starts from free range birds crowding together at feeding time. To avoid this he makfes it a point to enter his chicken fields at a different point, as far as possible, each day when approaching his fiock with the feed wagon. The result is that birds never know in which direction or from which point of the large range the food supply is likely to arrive, and they know from habit and experience that the only safe and sure way to get a full meal is to hang around home until it arrives at the regular feeding place for their particular flock. This plan has been carried out now for several seasons and proves entirely prac- tical, so much so that crowding at feeding time does not cause trouble on the Almy plant. Mr. Almy is a very conservative man and in conversation with us made it apparent that it was his desire to understate rather than to overstate the facts concerning the poultry busi- ness. When pressed^as to the profit that could reasonably be 81—ROW OF COLONY HOUSES however, does not appear so alarming when one considers that December eggs in that section average
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