. Common sense in the poultry yard : A story of failures and successes. Including a full account of 1000 hens and what they did, with a complete description of the houses, coops, fences, runs, methods of feeding, breeding, marketing, etc. .... ine, and it was very larely that they did notreturn to their proper houses to lay. In addition to the nests inthe houses, we had special boxes scattered over the grounds for 138 COMMON SENSE their convenience, but we did not get many eggs in them. Ninetyper cent, of the eggs were laid in the houses. In winter the programme was, of course, considerably va
. Common sense in the poultry yard : A story of failures and successes. Including a full account of 1000 hens and what they did, with a complete description of the houses, coops, fences, runs, methods of feeding, breeding, marketing, etc. .... ine, and it was very larely that they did notreturn to their proper houses to lay. In addition to the nests inthe houses, we had special boxes scattered over the grounds for 138 COMMON SENSE their convenience, but we did not get many eggs in them. Ninetyper cent, of the eggs were laid in the houses. In winter the programme was, of course, considerably the snow was deep many of the sheds were inaccessible, butwhen the ground was clear they were all frequented during theday. Instead of sending the hens off hungry to their feedinggrounds, however, I gave them soft feed, well cooked, and consist-ing of corn mea], bran, ground oats and rye, flesh, bone dust,finely powdered oyster shells, etc. Of course the proportion of thelatter ingredients Avas small. A little salt, and sometimes a httlered pepper were also mixed with the food. This was made into avery stiff paste, being, in fact, worked like bakers dough, and wasthen placed in troughs, which were made in very simple fashion. Fig. 11. by nailing two narrow boards together along the edges, and closingthe ends by means of two square i)ieces, as shown in the II. In order to prevent the birds from getting their feet intothese troughs and defihng the food, I nailed a strip across the top asshown in the figure. It answered the purpose admirably. All ourbirds, without exception, would rush for these troughs, so that eventhe slowest feeders got their share. They then went to scratching mthe feeding sheds of their yards, and in tliis way got plenty of the snow was on the ground, and no green food was to behad, we hung cabbages all around the sheds and let them ])eckaway at them. We also mixed some very finely cut dried cloverwith their feed. By pa
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