POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



the hens to consume more mash feed. A moist mash is 

 much more relished by fowls than is a dry mash. 



With a system of feeding whereby the fowls are 

 handled so as to eat half mash and half scratch feed, there 

 is a tendency to underfeed the fowls in the fall and early 

 winter, before the hens get to eating the dry mash freely. 

 By feeding this additional moist mash and proportionately 

 more scratch feed the fowls will consume a greater 

 amount of feed and produce more eggs during that season 

 of the year. During the latter part of the winter and in the 

 spring the fowls eat dry mash much more freely, thereby 

 eliminating the necessity for the extra moist mash. This 

 may also be handled by adding ten per cent of cracked 

 corn to the dry mash if the fowls do not eat the mash 

 freely in the fall and early winter. 



SCRATCH FEEDS 



Corn, wheat, oats, and barley are the principal grains 

 fed to poultry. In making up the scratch feed or what 

 is commonly called the "scratch mixture" Kaffir corn and 

 buckwheat are also used but are not so generally avail- 

 able as the other grains and are usually much more ex- 

 pensive considering their relative food content. One 

 grain alone does not usually give the best results but two or 

 three well-liked grains will give about as high egg yields 

 as will a much greater variety of grains, while a simple 

 mixture is much less expensive than a mixture containing 

 6 or 8 different grains. 



Use those grains most readily available or which are 



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