THE POULTRY RUN

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 5

THE POULTRY RUN

Wjet mash has to be mixed, taken out, and fed to the birds. For mixing, some sort of trough, often a galvanised tin bath, must be used. Great care should be taken to keep this clean, to avoid the fermentation of the mash that always remains behind after mixing. It must be scoured out regularly. The same precaution applies to the buckets in which it is taken to the birds.

Wet mash should always be fed in ar open trough, though for very young chicks a board may take its place. Whether the trough is in the house or.outside is immaterial; weather conditions can well be the deciding factor.

If the trough is long enough for all the birds that are to be fed to “gather round,”’ the more greedy will be less likely to get into the mash to have their fill, and the possibility of fouling will be reduced. As a very rough guide a 3-foot-long trough is large enough for 12 or 15 hens. Always after feeding wet mash go round again about half an hour later to collect any that has not been eateix. This advice is frequently ignored. The» sight of the uneaten portion of a meal is never pleasant when one has partaken well but wisely. Think, therefore, of the poor hens.