POULTRY. 



Poultry Foods and Feeding the Business Hen. 



The following table shows the composition and nutritive 

 ratio of some of the common materials used as poultry foods : 

 (Henry's Feeds and Feeding.) 



PER CENT. 



Ash. 



Corn, Dent 1.5 



Wheat, winter 1.8 



Barley 2.4 



Oats 3.0 



Buckwheat 2.0 



Peas 2.6 



Soy Bean 



Cowpea 



Cornmeal, bolted 



Wheat bran 5.8 



Wheat middlings 3.8 



Oatmeal 



Brewer's grains, dried 



Gluten meal 8 



Linseed meal 5.3 



Dried blood 4.7 



Meat scraps 4.1 



Skimmed milk 



Red clover hay 6.2 



Mangels 



Rutabagas 



Crude Carbo- Nutritive 



Protein, hydrates. Fat. Ratio. 



7.0 



9.2 



9.5 



9.1 



7.7 



18.0 



29.6 



18.1 



6.3 



12.6 



12.2 



11.3 



16.2 



25.0 



27.2 



59.1 



68.4 



2.9- 



6.5 



1.1 



.9 



10.3 

 6.5 

 7.2 

 5.9 

 6.9 

 3.2 

 1.8 

 2.1 



11.0 

 4.0 

 4.4 

 5.5 

 2.9 

 2.5 



14.0 

 0.1 

 0.4 

 2.0 

 5.9 

 4.4 

 8.9 



PROBLEMS. 



1. Which of the above foods do you find to be too wide as a poultry 

 ration ? 



2. Which of the above foods are too narrow for a poultry ration ? 



3. Figure out a balanced ration of the nutritive ratio of 1 :4.4 for 

 chicks 10 or 12 weeks' old. 



4. Figure out a ration of the proper nutritive ratio of 1 :3 which 

 is about a proper summer ration for White Leghorns. 



5. Prepare a formula from the above feeds for a scratching ration 

 having a nutritive ratio of 1 :6.6. 



NOTE Care must be taken that the ration shall have sufficient bulk 

 be palatable, succulent and be of the proper nutritive ratio. 



