76 FEEDING OF FOWLS 



sistency to the baking. The mixture should be put into 

 a pan the same as is corn bread and be baked until 

 thoroughly done. This should be fed plentifully to the 

 chicks for one week; thereafter, feed them all the wet 

 mash they will eat. This mash should be composed of 

 equal parts of ground oats, corn meal, and wheat mid- 

 dlings, into which 1 pt. of beef scraps should be mixed 

 for each 3 qt. of the meal mixture. The mash should 

 be moistened with milk or water and the chicks should 

 have all they will eat of it morning and noon. For night 

 feeding they should have all the cracked corn they will 

 eat. The main feature of importance is that the chicks 

 shall have all they will eat three times a day without 

 any being left to sour. If either sour milk or buttermilk 

 can be used for moistening the mash, better results will 

 be obtained than will come from feeding the mash 

 moistened with water, yet water will do for the purpose 

 when, milk is lacking. 



The English method of feeding broilers differs from 

 the methods used in this country. One broiler plant in 

 England feeds almost exclusively ground oats, boiled 

 rice, and boiled wheat. The broilers are very fond of 

 the boiled rice and wheat, and it is thought that such 

 feeding is most profitable. The ground oats are mois- 

 tened with milk and fed early in the morning. The 

 second feed is composed of either cooked rice or cooked 

 wheat; the third feeding is ground oats mixed with milk, 

 and the fourth, either the cooked rice or the wheat. If 

 the rice is fed in the morning, cooked wheat is used for 

 the fourth feeding. For the last feeding at night they 

 have all of the cooked rice and cooked wheat they will 

 eat. While this method of feeding is very exacting, it 

 is said that the best small size broilers sent to London 

 market are fed in this way. 



