24 POULTRY FEEDING AND FATTENING 



is also always by them, and ground oyster shells are 

 given them about twice a week. As there are no trees 

 in our fields we provide a temporary shelter for shade, 

 making a slanting roof near each coop. This helps 

 each family to identify its own home, and, besides, 

 shelter from the hot sun is shelter from the rain, also, 

 and the feed boards are put under it in wet weather. 

 With this liberal feeding of a varied food ration the 

 pullets will begin to lay in October and the fowls are 

 then turned off to the butcher, the houses cleaned up 

 and whitewashed and the pullets moved in. 



