POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



feeds, base it entirely on their protein content. Skim 

 milk or buttermilk, either sweet or sour, is excellent for 

 replacing part or all of the meat scrap. The milk may be 

 used in mixing the mash if a moist mash is fed, or can be 

 kept before the fowls as a drink. Where it is provided 

 constantly before the fowls they should also have some 

 meat scrap. 



A small amount of bone meal may be added to the 

 mash, using two per cent which can be used to replace 

 that amount of meat scrap. Green cut bone, if fresh and 

 sweet, will take the place of meat scrap if fed at the rate 

 of half an ounce per hen daily. If too much of this bone 

 is fed it will give the fowls diarrhea or cause looseness 

 of the bowels. The difficulty with green cut bone is to 

 get this material while it is in a fresh sweet condition 

 as well as the large amount of labor of grinding it up for 

 the poultry, unless one has some convenient form of 

 power. The use of table scraps and cooked vegetables 

 will help to reduce the necessary meat feed from one-third 

 to one-half, depending on the quantity of meat products 

 in the scraps. 



VEGETABLE PROTEIN FEEDS 



High vegetable protein feeds will not entirely replace 

 meat or animal protein feeds to advantage, but in sections 

 where the former are produced they may be used to re- 

 place about half or slightly less of the meat scrap. In 

 experiments conducted at the government poultry farm at 

 Beltsville, Maryland, cotton seed meal gave the best re- 



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