. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. 36G BEGINNINGS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY geese. Granulated charcoal is frequently used, being regarded as valuable for sour stomach and indigestion and as a blood purifier. Water for fowls should be clean and pure. Drinking fountains in which clean water may always be found are commendable. Fowls are rather frequent drinkers, and should always have plenty of clean water available. In winter, care should be taken to see that water and not ice or snow is supphed. A flock of fifty hens will use from four to six quarts of water a day. Feeding rations
. Beginnings in animal husbandry. Livestock; Poultry. 36G BEGINNINGS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY geese. Granulated charcoal is frequently used, being regarded as valuable for sour stomach and indigestion and as a blood purifier. Water for fowls should be clean and pure. Drinking fountains in which clean water may always be found are commendable. Fowls are rather frequent drinkers, and should always have plenty of clean water available. In winter, care should be taken to see that water and not ice or snow is supphed. A flock of fifty hens will use from four to six quarts of water a day. Feeding rations for fowls naturally vary, some Fig. 203. Two cheaply made drinking persous preferring oue ra- fountains. These are jars filled with water x* nr^A c^r^rrM^ Q-r»/^-l-V»£iT» and turned with mouths down on pans of l^lOn UliU. SOme aUOiUer. water. Photograph from Ohio State Univ- i\t^^4- ^r xu^„^ U^-.^^ ^^^^^^ ersity College of Agriculture. Most Ot thcSe hcrO glVCn are easily secured or may be readily prepared, as the foods used in the combinations are grown over a wide extent of country. The rations given are quoted from reports, and so differ in total amounts and in statement of weights or parts. However, the common method is to mix up a quantity of feed, and then use as much as the flock requires. Rations for young chicks in brooders, used at the Maine 3xperiment station: Feed for first three days infertile eggs, boiled for one-half hour and then ground up, shell and all, in a meat chopper, and mixed with six times their bulk of rolled oats. Feed with chick grit on the brooder floor. Feed at about 9 a. m. and at p. M. for the first 21 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 Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb Publishing Co.
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