PRACTICAL FEEDING OF POULTRY 



vides the hens always with sufficient feed but keeps them 

 hungry during the early part of the day so that they will 

 clean up all of the table scraps available. Feed the scraps 

 in troughs preferably on a feeding board especially in 

 the summer or at least use some method whereby the 

 troughs in which the scraps are fed, and the place around 

 them, may be kept absolutely clean. This is very essential 

 because when the waste products which the fowls do not 

 eat get mixed with the ground it makes a very unsanitary 

 place which may result in decayed products and cause 

 heavy mortality in the flock. 



It is also very necessary to be sure that the table or 

 kitchen scraps are in good condition and do not contain 

 any decayed meat or a large amount of salt or salty meat 

 as these products are especially injurious to fowls. If 

 more waste products are available than are readily eaten 

 by the fowls it may pay to put these products through a 

 meat or feed chopper to get them into a more palatable 

 form so that the fowls will consume a larger quantity. 

 Vegetables and feeds do not need to be cooked for poultry 

 except small potatoes, which should be boiled. 



Green and succulent feed should be provided and a 

 large supply is usually available to the backyard poultry 

 keeper during the growing season, consisting of weeds 

 and waste vegetables from the garden and fresh lawn 

 clippings. During the summer and fall any part of the 

 garden not used for vegetables may be sown to oats or 

 rye and this growing green feed cut when it is three to 

 six inches high and fed to the hens or to growing chickens. 



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