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BEGINNINGS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 



geese. Granulated charcoal is frequently used, being 

 regarded as valuable for sour stomach and indigestion and 

 as a blood purifier. 



Water for fowls should be clean and pure. Drinking 

 fountains in which clean water may always be found are 

 commendable. Fowls are rather frequent drinkers, and 

 should always have plenty of clean water available. In 



winter, care should be 

 taken to see that water 

 and not ice or snow is 

 supplied. A flock of fifty 

 hens will use from four to 

 six quarts of water a day. 

 Feeding rations for 

 fowls naturally vary, some 

 Fig. 203. TWO cheaply made drinking persons preferring one ra- 



fountains. These are jars filled with water , i ,1 



and turned with mouths down on pans of tlOn and SOme another, 

 water. Photograph from Ohio State Univ- TV/T 4- f j-V, U 



ersity College of Agriculture. Most Of these here glVPn 



are easily secured or may 



be readily prepared, as the foods used in the combinations 

 are grown over a wide extent of country. The rations 

 given are quoted from reports, and so differ in total 

 amounts and in statement of weights or parts. However, 

 the common method is to mix up a quantity of feed, and 

 then use as much as the flock requires. 



Rations for young chicks in brooders, used at the Maine 

 3xperiment station: 



Feed for first three days infertile eggs, boiled for one-half 

 hour and then ground up, shell and all, in a meat chopper, 

 and mixed with six times their bulk of rolled oats. Feed with 

 chick grit on the brooder floor. Feed at about 9 A, M. and 

 at 4.30 p. M. for the first 21 days. 



