FEEDING

Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 12

FEEDING

Dunn'" tlje.moult the appetite at first goes off but as soon as the old feathers are dropped the fowls require plenty of wholesome food.. There is very little feed value in peelings of vegetables and fruit, and the old idea oi a few potatoes half boiled and mixed with pollard is not good enough for egg .production today. Kcmembcr that man has so bred the domestic hen as to increase its capacity for egg production almost .ten times, but the. hen cannot achieve high production without the necessary food. The mash should consist of one part bran and three parts pollard with a cupful of meatmeal to every dozen hens. It must be fed regulargly at the same time each morning, and should be given in a "v" shaped through, not thrown on the ground anyhow. A few grains of wheat at midday scattered in the straw litter will make the hens warm with exercise, and then at least an hour before dusk, they should havo as much grain as they will cat up greedily. Clean water and shell grit should always be before them. And don't forget the importance of the daily feeding of green stuff. Watch a hen on free range eating grass, and you will appreciate hovf much they like green stuff. It can be chaffed and placed in wire baskets, or hung up inside the shed.