. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . , but there is, in addi-tion, a considerable space between the windows, fit-ted with a frame covered with cloth and hinged atthe top, which may be let down on very cold orvery stormy days and nights. There is also a frameor curtain in front of the perches, which is let downevery night in cold weather. This keeps the fowlswarm and at the same time admits plenty of pureair. Experiments prove that hens in such housesmay be made to lay abundantly in winter, if theircirculation is kept up during the day by wholesomefood and plenty of exercise in t
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . , but there is, in addi-tion, a considerable space between the windows, fit-ted with a frame covered with cloth and hinged atthe top, which may be let down on very cold orvery stormy days and nights. There is also a frameor curtain in front of the perches, which is let downevery night in cold weather. This keeps the fowlswarm and at the same time admits plenty of pureair. Experiments prove that hens in such housesmay be made to lay abundantly in winter, if theircirculation is kept up during the day by wholesomefood and plenty of exercise in the deep litter of thescratching shed. That they are happier thus em-ployed, their cheery song on a cold winter morninggives ample proof. Feeding for Eggs.—If in the fall the farmer hasa flock of thrifty hens, pullets mostly—noneover two years old, except perhaps a fewfor breeding stock or mothers—how must hefeed to make them profitable? First, he mustfind out the composition of the egg, just ashe has found out the composition of milk that he. 337 338 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. may know what to feed his cows. The egg, likemilk, is composed largely of protein, and the hen toproduce eggs must be fed protein, just as the cow isfed protein to produce milk. But the hen, does notbelong to the bovine, but to the avis or bird family,and for best results she must have more variety inher ration than the cow, and much more —One reason that so many of the farmersin the West do not get eggs in winter is that theirhens are too fat. The hen, like most other animals,prefers corn to any other food, and when her favor-ite food lies in great open piles around her she isgoing to eat her fill, especially if she is given noth-ing else in its place. We have a problem here thatthe corn-belt farmer will have to solve if he wouldhave plenty of fresh eggs in winter; for we knowthat when a hen becomes excessively fat, the ovulesare paralyzed and it is a physical impossibility forher t
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