POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



content than are the products containing less protein. 

 Good grades of meat scrap usually range from 50 to 70 

 per cent of protein. 



Tankage of good grades gives good results in feeding 

 laying hens in place of meat scrap and is used consider- 

 ably in the Central West for poultry feeding. It appears 

 to be about equal to meat scrap in feeding value for poul- 

 try and often can be purchased at a considerably lower 

 cost considering its protein content. Pork cracklings may 

 be used in place of meat scrap but does not give as good 

 results. 



All experiments with chickens, fowls, and ducks have 

 indicated the need of an animal protein feed in the ration 

 and the much greater value of the animal proteins over 

 the vegetable proteins for feed purposes. The finer or 

 sifted forms of meat scrap are used for small chick feed- 

 ing and the coarser sizes for large chicks and mature 

 fowls. 



FRESH MEAT AND BONE 



Fresh meat is fed to poultry to a limited extent, es- 

 pecially horse flesh, and is greatly relished by fowls. In 

 sections where there are a large number of poultry farms, 

 like parts of California, an extensive business is carried 

 on in furnishing fresh horse meat for poultry feeding. 

 Care must be used to see that no diseased or decayed flesh 

 is used when fresh meat scraps are fed, as such products 

 will decompose very rapidly, especially in warm weather. 

 It is easiest to feed fresh meats in cold weather when the 



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