PRACTICAL FEEDING OF POULTRY 



also pay to feed three times, giving the moist mash at 

 noon and grain in the morning and in the evening. Some 

 poultrymen who use the moist mash give this in the 

 morning and feed the scratch grains at night, which 

 system works all right where the hens are on free range 

 in colony houses but is not so well adapted to hens kept 

 in long houses and confined to small or only fair-sized 

 yards. 



Eggs must be produced at all seasons of the year to 

 make poultry farming most profitable but each poultry- 

 man must decide for himself whether or not it is most 

 profitable for him to make special efforts to get fall and 

 winter eggs by special methods, such as by the use of 

 electric lights, or merely to rely on the more common 

 practices of getting the chicks hatched early, using well- 

 balanced rations and providing comfortable winter 

 quarters. As far as the actual returns over immediate 

 cost is concerned the poultryman usually makes a greater 

 profit during the spring months when the hens are laying 

 freely and when eggs are at their lowest price, than he 

 secures in the fall and winter, when eggs are much higher 

 in price. 



FEED COST OF PRODUCING EGGS 



The feed cost of producing eggs necessarily varies 

 greatly according to the success used in the management 

 of the fowls, the breed kept, and the price of the feeds 

 used. Where high egg production is secured without 

 using too expensive feeds or methods, the cost of egg 



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