Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . THE CORNELL FATTENING RATION By weight. By measure. 100 pounds Cornmeal 95 quarts. 100 Buckwheat middlings or ground wheat with hulls removed 90 100 Red dog flour 83 30 Beef scrap 25 1 pound Charcoal lij These aie thoroughly mixed together. About twelve hoursbefore using mix the desired amount with skim sour milk orbuttermilk (the latter preferred) to the consistency of batterThis mixture should be allowed to sour. Ten pounds of feedusually require 7 to 9 quarts of skim milk or buttermilk
Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . THE CORNELL FATTENING RATION By weight. By measure. 100 pounds Cornmeal 95 quarts. 100 Buckwheat middlings or ground wheat with hulls removed 90 100 Red dog flour 83 30 Beef scrap 25 1 pound Charcoal lij These aie thoroughly mixed together. About twelve hoursbefore using mix the desired amount with skim sour milk orbuttermilk (the latter preferred) to the consistency of batterThis mixture should be allowed to sour. Ten pounds of feedusually require 7 to 9 quarts of skim milk or buttermilk. Fast for twenty-four hours before feeding the fatteningration. The ration should be fed sparingly at first. Theappetite should be kept sharp by feeding only as much as willbe cleaned up in fifteen to twenty minutes. If they have morefeed than they can digest properly for a meal or two they areliable to lose their appetite, and fail to grow well. Feed fowls or mature young stock three times daily for RATIONS AND METHODS OF FEEDING 357. Fig. 117.—A good and convenient fattening crate. It consists of three compartments.
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