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than that which is largely corn. Silage should be fed in small 

 quantities until the flock becomes accustomed to it. 



Green feeds for spring and summer. — For early spring rye pasture 

 is an excellent green feed. To prevent scours the fowls should not be 

 allowed to eat a large amount of the rye until they become accustomed 

 to it. Green alfalfa and green clover furnish excellent grazing for 

 poultry or may be cut as soilage and fed to birds confined to bare lots. 

 Rape, planted early, may be pastured thruout the season, or will 

 yield several cuttings, if not cut below the crown. Lettuce is excellent 

 for broiler chicks in early spring before other green feed is available. 

 Onion tops and onions are relished by poultry when fed in small 

 amounts, and give variety to the ration. Too large amounts fed to 

 laying hens will taint the eggs. Sliced onions are the best of all 

 green feeds for very small chicks but are not usually fed in large 

 quantities because of the high cost. 



Legume hay. — The only dry roughage of any value for poultry is 

 cut or ground legume hay. This is often used as part of the dry 

 mash to increase its bulk, up to one-fourth of the mash consisting 

 of the legume hay. Alfalfa hay is used somewhat more commonly than 

 clover hay, tho there is little difference in their value. Poultry, how- 

 ever, prefer clover to alfalfa. Cut alfalfa or clover hay, when 

 steamed, may be used as a temporary substitute for succulent feed. 

 On the farm, the leaves which shatter from legume hay in feeding to 

 other stock should be saved for the poultry. Alfalfa or clover meal 

 is not better than the finely cut hay. 



QUESTIONS 



1. What precautions should be used in feeding corn to poultry? 



2. What grain is commonly considered the best' single grain for poultry? 

 Discuss its use. 



3. How do oats and barley compare with corn and wheat for poultry? 



4. What is the value for poultry of the sorghums, millet, rye, rice, buckwheat, 

 emmer, hominy feed, and stale bread? 



5. Discuss the value of the most widely used animal feed. 



6. Tell what you can about 6 other animal feeds used for poultry. 



7. What is the use in poultry feeding of wheat bran, wheat middlings, linseed 

 meal, cottonseed meal, and sunflower seeds? 



8. Discuss the value of the 3 best succulent feeds for winter feeding. 



9. What other succulent feeds are used in flocks in your vicinity in winter 

 and in the growing season? 



10. How is legume hay used in poultry feeding? 



