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FEEDING OF FOWLS 



QUANTITY OF FOOD REQUIRED BY ONE HEN 

 IN A YEAR 



FEEDING OF FOWLS DURING MOLT 



Fowls that are molting should have good nourishing 

 food in order properly to nourish their bodies while 

 they are under the unusual strain of replenishing the 

 plumage. Foods rich in fat and protein are best for the 

 the purpose; hence, during molting, a mash that contains 

 a large proportion of linseed-oil-cake meal and meat is 

 particularly desirable. 



In the morning, molting fowls should have a moderate 

 meal, composed of equal parts, by weight, of cracked 

 corn and whole wheat. 



At noon they should have all they will eat of mash 

 composed, by measure, of the following: 



Food Parts 



Wheat bran 4 



Wheat middlings 3 



Ground oats 3 



Meat scrap 4 



Corn meal 3 



Linseed-oil-cake meal 4 



Low-grade flour 1 



Alfalfa meal 2 



During the first week of the molting period this ration 

 should contain only 1 part each of meat scrap and lin- 





