PROGRESSIVE POULTRY RAISING 



day. Beginning with the third day, the poults should 

 be fed according to the quantity of natural feed they are 

 able to pick up outside the coop. They should always 

 be hungry. To feed all they will clean up several times 

 a day removes the cause of searching for food, so little 

 exercise is taken and indigestion is sure to result. When 

 natural feed is scarce, or when the poults have to be kept 

 from ranging outside, they should be fed lightly about 

 five times a day. If allowed to run outside the coop 

 where they can find insects, seeds, and green feed, they 

 need not be fed oftener than two or three times a day. 



Successful turkey raisers use many different kinds of 

 feed, some of the most common being as follows: 



1. Hard-boiled egg chopped fine and corn-bread 

 crumbs for the first week, and then whole wheat and 

 hulled oats. 



2. Stale bread, soaked in milk and squeezed dry, for 

 the first few days and then common chick feed. 



3. Clabbered milk seasoned with salt and pepper, 

 corn-bread crumbs. 



4. Equal parts "pinhead" oats, whole wheat, and 

 cracked corn. 



5. Cracked wheat. 



6. Corn meal and wheat bran mixed in the proportion 

 of three to one and baked into bread. 



7. Bran or middlings one-half, cracked Egyptian corn 

 one-quarter, wheat and hulled oats one-quarter. 



In addition to the above, skimmed milk and buttermilk 

 are quite often fed, with excellent results. A good plan 

 is to keep the milk in front of the poults during the morn- 

 ing and water during the afternoon. If grit and green 

 feed cannot be picked up outside the coop, they must 

 be provided in some other way. Chopped onion tops, 

 lettuce leaves, dandelion leaves and alfalfa make excel- 

 lent green feed. Grit can be furnished in the form of 

 coarse sand. 



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