DUCKS AND GEESE 



com meal, 2 parts bran, 1 part low grade wheat 

 flour, 1 part green feed, 8% beef scrap and 3% 

 oyster shell. This mash is mixed up with water until 

 it has a consistency just between sticky and crumbly. 

 It should never be fed in a sloppy condition. A feed 

 of this mash should be given in the morning and at 

 night and during the long days of summer it is well 

 also to give a light feed of cracked corn or mixed 

 grains in the middle of the day. However, judg- 

 ment must be used in feeding ducks especially if 

 they have range over which they can roam where 

 they can pick up more or less animal feed and other 

 material. In this case it is not necessary to f edd near- 

 ly so much. Another mash which may be used instead 

 of the one given consists of 3 parts by measure of 

 corn meal, 4 parts bran, 2 parts low grade wheat 

 flour, three-fourths part beef scrap and 2 parts 

 green feed with a supply of oyster shell. 



Along about December 1 the feed should be 

 changed with the idea of inducing egg production. 

 A feed consisting of one part by weight corn meal, 

 1 part low grade flour or middlings, 1 part bran, 

 15% beef scrap, 157' vegetables or green feed to- 

 gether with oyster shell should be fed morning and 

 evening and in addition a feed consisting of com 

 and wheat may be given at noon in a quantity of 

 about one quart for each 30 ducks. As much mash 

 should be given them at the morning and evening 

 feed as they will clean up. 



Another good mash feed which may be used con- 



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