AMEIUCAN FATTENING ]\1 ETIIODS 



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The chickens nre put in small open lattice coops 

 anr] fed on gronnd grain, chiefly oats mixcfl with 

 skimmilk. During the last ]iart of the process they 

 receive an allowance of tallow. Ponr to twelve chickens 

 are kept in each coop. The grain is ground fine and 

 mixed with skimmilk, sweet or sour, sour bein'.^ 

 preferred. The mixture resembles cream or thin por- 

 ]idge. At first, food is given three times a day for the 

 first ten days, then twice a day. At tlie end of tbe 

 second ten days the cramming machine is used. Tallow 



-TWELVE rLYilOrTI-I EOCK CHICKENS IK 

 Cxi.N"ADIAN" FATTEXIXG CTUTE 



fed during the fast ten da3's is melted, thickened with 

 meal and then mixed with the porridge. It is the rule 

 not to feed at all until the crop is empty from the last 

 meal. The cost of food in some recent experiments 

 was 6.43 cents per pound of live weight gained. 



For twenty-four hours before killing, the birds are 

 not fed. They are bled through the mouth, plucked, 

 but not drawn. A ring of feathers about two inches 

 long is left at the head of each Ijird. They are shaped 

 on a shaping board, cooled, wrapped in a piece of clean 



