POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



being cut daily, chopped into small pieces and mixed in 

 with the poultry mash. 



Pumpkins, squashes, and melons are not usually avail- 

 able for poultry feeding but are occasionally used. They 

 are generally fed raw and neither pumpkins nor squashes 

 are especially relished by fowls. Surplus or cull fruit of 

 any kind is a great relish for poultry but is rarely available 

 for that purpose. Such fruit contains slightly more dry 

 matter than roots, the sugar being their chief food sup- 

 ply. In experiments with hogs conducted at Utah 100 

 pounds of apples were equal to from 9 to 15 pounds of 

 grains. 



Fowls will pick over and eat a little corn silage but do 

 not eat enough of it to make this feed of any great im- 

 portance for poultry. Corn silage contains too much 

 coarse hard fiber to make it well adapted for a poultry 

 feed. Immature corn stalks are chopped up and fed 

 extensively to ducks and geese and corn silage is also used 

 a little for these two kinds of waterfowl, especially for the 

 geese. Ducks and geese are considered to be better able 

 to utilize coarse fiber of this nature than are fowls. 



SOILAGE OF CROPS 



Soilage or furnishing freshly cut green crops to stock 

 in confinement is a method used extensively in feeding 

 dairy cows and other kinds of livestock as well as for 

 poultry. The advantages of the soiling method are: 

 i. Larger crops may be secured by allowing the crops 

 to nearly mature before harvesting than are secured by 



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