. The business hen (the latest hatch). Poultry. HOPPER FOR LITTLE CHICKS Fig. 54. SECTION OP BURR TROUGH. Fig. FOR LARGER CHICKS. Fig. 55. such troughs, half for grain and half for dry mash, are enough for 1,000 hens, and need be filled only once a day. Of course the grain ration before them all the time applies only to Leghorns, who can- not over-eat. With the heavier breeds the mash may be kept before them all the time, and the grain fed in litter night and morning. Even with the heavier breeds, grain troughs that can be closed except at supper time are an advantage, as v^here all grain
. The business hen (the latest hatch). Poultry. HOPPER FOR LITTLE CHICKS Fig. 54. SECTION OP BURR TROUGH. Fig. FOR LARGER CHICKS. Fig. 55. such troughs, half for grain and half for dry mash, are enough for 1,000 hens, and need be filled only once a day. Of course the grain ration before them all the time applies only to Leghorns, who can- not over-eat. With the heavier breeds the mash may be kept before them all the time, and the grain fed in litter night and morning. Even with the heavier breeds, grain troughs that can be closed except at supper time are an advantage, as v^here all grain is fed in litter many hens go to bed without enough supper, which means less eggs. For the grain ration almost any mixture of wheat, cracked corn, with some buckwheat during Winter, will do. Watch the troughs and mix your grain to suit the hens' appetite, using more pf one or the other grain as they eat theiri more eagerly. For the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Collingwood, Herbert Winslow, 1857-1927 ed. New York, Rural Pub. Co
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