FEEDING FOR Eaa PRODUCTION 



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Ration No. 5 is especially suited for pullets or hens 

 inclined to get too fat, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Orping- 

 tons, and Wyandottes. Corn meal when fed with the meat 

 scrap, is very fattening; consequently these two feeds are 

 cut down in ration No. 5. 



Ration No. 6 should be fed with table scraps or vege- 

 tables at the rate of 5 pounds of table scraps daily to 30 

 hens. 



METHODS OF FEEDING 



The scratch, or grain, mixture when fed indoors should 



Figure 209. — Hens scratching in the litter for their grain. Such exercise keeps 

 the hena in good condition. Note the two hens to the left in the rear 

 eating mash from the dry mash hopper. 



be fed twice daily, in a litter of from 3 to 5 inches deep on 

 the floor of the poultry house. 



Feed about one third of the amount of the grain feed 

 in the morning and two thirds in the afternoon, the morning 

 feed consisting of as much as the hens will eat within half 

 an hour, the night feed being enough to fully satisfy them. 

 Feed the mash either dry or as a moist feed in addition 

 to the scratch grains, an effort being made to feed about 

 equal amounts of each. To feed the mash dry is the more 



