Example 1 



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Left: feed room; carrier to pens loaded with bags. Center: bulk bins; carrier 

 to pens; can also load into vehicle outside for range. Right: bulk bins; auto- 

 matic feeder; can also load into vehicle outside for range. 



Examijle 2 



Feed Storage 



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Left: grain unloaded at third floor in bags; emptied into bulk bins. First and 

 second floor bins filled by gravity; fourth floor bins by belt elevator. Grain 

 scooped by hand into buckets and carried to pens. Right: grain unloaded at 

 third floor in bulk. First and second floor serviced by spouts; fourth floor 

 bins by belt elevator. Automatic feeders servicing each floor. 



Figure 7. Examples of changing from bagged to bulk feed. 



Time Requirements in Feeding Laying Hens. 



As one phase of studying methods and facilities on commercial poultry 

 farms, operators were asked to provide data on time requirements in 

 feeding laying hens. 



Table 13 contains examples of the effect of unit size on feeding time. 

 Enough records were taken to make estimates for several size intervals for 

 feed carried by hand and by carrier. In most other categories in Table 14, 

 such was not the case. Note that the data in Table 13 are also suggestive of 

 limitations to the decreasing feeding time per 100 birds as flock size in- 

 creases. With feed being carried into pens in pails, time per 100 birds 

 declines to the 2,101-3,600 interval, then rises. With carriers used, the 

 decline persists into the 3.601-7,000 interval, then rises. 



The preceding illustrations of the effect of unit size involve suggestions 

 of diminishing efBciency in labor utilization beyond an optimum point. 



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