356 PRODUCTIVE FEEDING OF FARM ANIMALS 
is omitted and a crumbly, moistened mash fed having the following 
formula: 
15 pounds bran, 
15 pounds shorts, 
15 pounds barley meal or oatmeal, 
15 pounds cornmeal, 
6 pounds meat scrap, 
2 pounds fine charcoal. 
The mash is moistened with buttermilk or sour skim milk if 
possible. If chicks can also be given buttermilk to drink it may be 
left before them in pans or fountains for about four hours every 
morning and the meat scrap may then be omitted from the mash. 
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During the sixth week one feed of this moist mash is given at 
11:30 o’clock and the grain mixture fed night and morning in the 
litter. 
The seventh week the moist mash should be fed noon and night, 
with a feed of scratch grains in the morning; thereafter the 
moist mash is fed three times a day till the birds are ready for 
market. Plenty of green and grit are given at all times. 
Broilers weighing from one to one and a half pounds should be 
ready for killing in from nine to twelve weeks when pen-fattened 
in this way. The above mash should not be fed for more than four 
or five weeks. Hence, if it is desired to have the birds weigh heavier 
before marketing, they should be given plenty of exercise and fed 
