FOODS AND FEEDING 



ANIMAL FOODS AND MILK 



Beef Scraps I :o.8 



Dried Blood I : i 



Animal Meal I :o. 5 



Fresh-cut Bone 1:1.2 



Whole Milk 1 14 



Skim- and Butter- Milk. .1:2 



The beginner should bear prominently in mind 

 that fowls require a variety of foods as well as 

 Variety in properly proportioned rations in 

 Feeding order to do well. Oats are the 



best balanced grain used for poultry feed, yet it 

 would be the height of folly to make oats an ex- 

 clusive diet day after day. Corn, wheat and oats 

 are the three staple grain feeds for poultry, and 

 many breeders obtain very excellent results by feed- 

 ing equal parts of these three grains. This surely 

 is a simple ration, and, if green stuff is fed in con- 

 nection with the grain, the whole " balances " 

 fairly well, although for summer feeding, or in the 

 case of an Asiatic breed, the ration is a little 

 " wide," and I believe in such cases it would usually 

 be best to reduce the amount of corn used. 



At least three different grains should make up 

 the fowls' ration, and a combination allowing the 

 use of more than this is very desirable, unless in the 

 summer time when the fowls are enjoying free 

 range. When combined and mixed, the grains 

 should give the average ratio desired, according to 

 the suggestion above. A good combination is 



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