. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 86. Open-front house with hood(Photograph from Department of Agri-culture, Victoria, British Columbia) 9o OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS to feed the beets is to split them and impale the pieces on spikesin the wall at a convenient distance from the floor. Sound,sweet turnips are also good, but bitter turnips and those thathave begun to spoil are likely to give an unpleasant flavor tothe eggs. A little freezing does not seem to affect the value ofthese vegetables for poultry food, and the birds will usually eatthem when frozen. The quantity fed
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 86. Open-front house with hood(Photograph from Department of Agri-culture, Victoria, British Columbia) 9o OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS to feed the beets is to split them and impale the pieces on spikesin the wall at a convenient distance from the floor. Sound,sweet turnips are also good, but bitter turnips and those thathave begun to spoil are likely to give an unpleasant flavor tothe eggs. A little freezing does not seem to affect the value ofthese vegetables for poultry food, and the birds will usually eatthem when frozen. The quantity fed at one time, however,. Fig. 87. Movable poultry house on United States Government farm, Beltsville,Maryland. (Photograph from Bureau of Animal Industry) should not be so large that it may freeze and thaw7 severaltimes before it is all eaten. When hogs and cattle are killed on a farm, the blood andother offal, and the small trimmings when the carcasses arecut up, should be saved and fed to the fowls regularly in mod-erate quantities, but care should be taken not to leave fattrimmings wrhere the fowls can help themselves, for if fowlshave been short of animal food, they eat meat very greedily
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