MASKED FOOD FOR LAYING HENS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 60

MASKED FOOD FOR LAYING HENS.

Here is what a good authority recommends as the best form of mashed food for laying hens :—Pollard 44 parts ; bran 2 parts ; greenstuff, (of any kind), 2£ parts; animal food 1 part:—that is, assuming bran and pollard are the cheapest forms of meal in your locality. If oatmeal, barley meal, or corn meal are available at reasonable rates, use them, or- one of them in place of one half the pollard. The green food, should be chaffed, and if of any other nature than fresh cut natural greenstuff should be scalded; root crops boiled till soft. If green cut bone is used. feed it at midday, and leave the animal food out of the mash. The whole should be mixed with hot water or soup, to a thick crumbly consistency, not sloppy, nor yet too dry. If soup is used it will take the place of the animal food. The amount to give? Ah! that is a ticklish question. How many times a year do you eat the same amount of feed—to the ounce —for your breakfast. If you are a normal individual you eat until you are satisfied: if a glutton you are never satisfied, but eat until you can held no more. In either case you never get through exactly the same amount two days' running. Nor does a fcrnT. Give them as much as they will eat up clean quickly, and you will give the right amount. Don’t stuff them full

(they’ll look after that if you feed them regularly' and don’t allow them to go away from the feed trough (for no mash should be thrown on the ground) hungry.