Chapter X 



SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF 

 POULTRY 



THE SUCCESSFUL poultryman will have set 

 up his establishment with due attention to 

 adequate housing, good stock, facilities for 

 maintaining sanitation and for creating generally 

 favorable conditions for egg production. His 

 next problem will be that of adopting successful 

 methods of management so that he may obtain 

 a satisfactory net income from the investment. 



Feeds and Feeding. There are two groups 

 of materials that are essential in food rations 

 for all ages of poultry. The organic feeds include 

 grains and grain by-products, hays, grasses 

 and vegetables. The inorganic feeds include salt 

 to increase palatability and digestibility of 

 the ration; lime, to aid in building bone and 

 body tissue as well as to furnish the shell mate- 

 rial; bone ash, especially for growing chicks, and 

 water in liberal amounts supplied by a fountain 

 as well as from succulent green foods. The fact 

 that a dozen eggs contain approximately one 

 pint of water demonstrates the necessity of 



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