CHAPTER XXIII 



Feeding the Breeding Cockerels 



These birds are fed green food about eight o'clock 

 in the morning. In good weather it is fed in their 

 large range yard, where the attendant scatters it in 

 small bunches over a wide area. At 1 1 130 is fed 

 to every hundred birds, six quarts of corn, wheat 



land oats, two-thirds corn, the wheat and oats making 

 up the other third. This is also distributed widely 



'over the yard. In this way the cockerels are kept 

 busy hunting for food, and they are less likely to 

 get into broils with each other for entertainment. 



At 1 130 o'clock they are allowed to return to their 

 House, having been shut out during the morning 

 hours. The Mash is fed daily at 1 130, and a suffi- 

 cient amount is placed in their troughs for them to 

 thoroughly clean up by roosting time. 



Sufficient grain is fed in the litter in the House to 

 make the quantity for the day's rations about eight 

 quarts for one hundred birds. 



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