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FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



PROTECTED FEED TROUGH 



Found useful where young 

 and old fowls must run together. 

 The openings between slats are 

 too narrow for full-grown fowls 

 to pass through. 



disposed of until late in the fall. Circumstances will 

 govern as to what is best to do with them. Ordina- 

 rily it is less profitable to allow them to run at large 

 than to confine them. On many farms the cockerels 



are separated from the 

 rest of the flock when 

 they have reached an age 

 of five or six weeks and 

 fed so as to reach an early 

 market. 



Range chickens will eat 

 a great deal of food, more 

 than is generally sup- 

 posed ; and they use up a good deal of their muscle 

 and flesh as they wander about. Where but few 

 chickens are raised and these only for home use, this 

 is a matter of small consequence; but if the cock- 

 erels are to be sold it is 

 best to get them ready for 

 market as early as possi- 

 ble and not to permit 

 them to "run their flesh 

 off" in seeking their food. 

 A good fattening ration 

 consists of corn for 

 grain and corn meal, bran 

 and ground oats for mash. 

 In preparing the mash, 

 make it moist with skim 



milk if available. In case skim milk is not to be had, 

 use meat scraps two or three times a week. Give at a 

 feed about all the fowls will eat up clean, three times 



FEED HOPPERS FILLED FROM ALLEY 



For convenience this plan is 

 admirable. The hoppers dis- 

 charge into the pens, but are 

 filled from outside. 



