356 PRODUCTIVE FEEDING OF FARM ANIMALS 



is omitted and a crumbly, moistened mash fed having the following 

 formula : 



15 pounds bran, 

 15 pounds shorts, 



15 pounds barley meal or oatmeal, 

 15 pounds cornmeal, 

 6 pounds meat scrap, 

 2 pounds fine charcoal. 



The mash is mo'istened with buttermilk or sour skim milk if 

 possible. If chicks can also be given buttermilk to drink it may be 

 left before them in pans or fountains for about four hours every 

 morning and the meat scrap may then be omitted from the mash. 



Fia. 105. Two-compartment fattening crate. Pan to catch droppings 

 pulled out to left. (California Station.) 



During the sixth week one feed of this moist mash is given at 

 11 :30 o'clock and the grain mixture fed night and morning in the 

 litter. 



The seventh week the moist mash should be fed noon and night, 

 with a feed of scratch grains in the morning; thereafter the 

 moist mash is fed three times a day till the birds are ready for 

 market. Plenty of green and grit are given at all times. 



Broilers weighing from one to one and a half pounds should be 

 ready for killing in from nine to twelve weeks when pen-fattened 

 in this way. The above mash should not be fed for more than four 

 or five weeks. Hence, if it is desired to have the birds weigh heavier 

 before marketing, they should be given plenty of exercise and fed 



