CHAPTER XXIV 

 Preparing Surplus Cockerels for Market 



The growing cockerels, fed in the same way as 

 the pullets up to six or eight weeks of age, will be, 

 in the majority of cases, in prime condition to have 

 the finishing touches applied to round them out into 

 the best possible weight at the age for market. 



We, of course, do not go into the various liquid 

 foods which are fed with a pump, but simply the 

 most inexpensive and rapid way of putting the birds 

 in a condition to return the most money in the short- 

 est possible time. Corn, in its different forms, is, per- 

 haps, the most fattening food which can be fed, and 

 for the cockerels intended for market, the grain ration 

 consists of nothing but corn, and as much of it as they 

 will clean up. 



If it is possible to give the time to it, the mash, 

 fed three times a day, will produce the finest quality 

 flfesh. A mash made from corn meal, ground oats, 

 gluten meal, middlings and bran, in equal parts, with 

 beef scrap, or green cut bone, equal to the total of 

 the meals, and moistened so that the birds can choke 

 it down in large quantities, will produce the result 

 better, perhaps, than anything else. 



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