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Experimental Feeding with K. I. Reds. 

 The following are the results of 8 months, Oct. 1st, 1910, to May 31st, 1911 



Pen 



No. 



Animal Food used. 



1 Buttermilk 



2 10% dry mash beef 



scrap 



3 Beef scrap in hopper, 



4 No animal food , 



5 Green cut bone 



Percentage' 



of Eggs 



Hatched. 



57.0 



56.4 

 51.66 

 66.25 

 64.5 



Experimental Feedixg avitii White Leghorns. 

 The following are the results for 7 months, Oct. 1st, 1911, to Oct. 30th, 1912 



Comments o:n Above Tables. 



With all three breeds buttermilk produced the most and the cheapest eggs. 



Where beef scrap was fed in a hopper or where the birds could eat all they 

 desired the Leghorns and Ehode Island Eeds did much better than the Orpingtons. 



No animal food in all instances gave the best eggs for hatching and the lowest 

 egg yield. 



From the results so far obtained it would appear to be a disastrous practice 

 to undertake feeding Leghorns on no meat food ration, or meat food in very small 

 quantities, for the reason that they developed feather eating to such an extent that 

 some of the birds were killed and the males were a sorry sight, in fact, had to be 

 frequently removed from the pen. This was true to a limited extent with the 

 Ehode Island Eeds but was not so of the Orpingtons. 



Green Foods. 



When fowls have free range, they eat a considerable amount of grass, or other 

 green foods. It would appear, therefore, to be desirable that where birds are 

 confined either in small runs during the summer, or in houses when the ground 

 is covered with snow in winter, some effort should be made to supply this food. 



Many foods are available, such as waste cabbage, mangels, turnips, rape, clover, 

 hay, or clover leaves, and green food grown especially for the purpose. 



