FEEDING NURSING DOES 143 
If you do this you will find that the green 
food will agree better with the youngsters, 
later, than if you start in after the doe has 
commenced to nurse them. 
Do not feed a ration of too much concen- 
trates such as grain. Be sure that she has 
plenty of roughage in the form of hay and 
plenty of bulk in the form of wheat bran and 
alfalfa meal. She needs this bulky matter to 
balance the concentrates and to give frame 
and bone to the developing youngsters. 
Three or four days before the youngsters 
arrive, commence to feed her stale bread and 
milk at noon. This is to be sure that she will 
have plenty of milk when the time of nursing 
starts. If the doe has a large litter of five or 
six she will need this help throughout the 
nursing period as the average doe, even though 
she be a good milker, does not have enough to 
adequately supply a large litter. 
The balance of the feeding should be as 
recommended for adult stock with the excep- 
tion that a doe with litter must have a con- 
