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Classification of Poultry Feeds

Nature provides—	Scientific classification	Poultrymen feed—
Worms and bugs	Nitrogenous material, or protein	Meat (Green cut bone or beef scrap), milk or cottage cheese.
Seeds	Carbohydrates	Wheat, oats, corn, barley, etc.
Greens	Succulents	Lettuce, cabbage, kale, mangels, alfalfa, clover, sprouted oats, etc.
Grit	Mineral matter	Grit and oyster shell.
Water	Water	Water.

A homemade dry-mash hopper.

Oats in the process of sprouting.

In order to obtain an abundance of eggs it is necessary to have healthy, vigorous stock, properly fed.

The following are good grain mixtures for the laying stock, the proportions being by weight:

Ration 1.	Ration 2.	Ration 3.
Equal parts of:	3 parts cracked corn.	2 parts cracked corn.
Cracked corn.	2 parts oats.	1 part oats.
Wheat.	1 part wheat.	Oats.

A choice of any one of these rations should be scattered in the litter twice daily, morning and evening.

Average amount of feed consumed by a laying hen and eggs produced.

Either of the following suggested dry-mash mixtures should be fed in a dry-mash hopper such as illustrated, allowing the fowls to have access to it at all times.

Mash No. 1.	Mash No. 2.
2 parts corn meal.	1 part middlings.	3 parts corn meal.
1 part bran.	1 part beef scrap.	1 part beef scrap.

When fowls do not have access to natural green feed, sprouted oats, cabbage, mangels, cut clover, etc., should be fed.

When wet mashes are fed, be sure that they are crumbly and not sticky. Plenty of exercise increases the egg yield.

A rural cafeteria.

Fresh, clean drinking water should be always provided. Charcoal, grit, and oyster shell should be placed before the fowls so that they can have access to them at all times.

For additional information on feeds and feeding request Farmers’ Bulletin 287, “Poultry Management,” and Farmers’ Bulletin 528, “Hints to Poultry Raisers,” from U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

To produce infertile eggs confine or dispose of the male birds. This has no influence on the number of eggs laid by the hens.

Produce the infertile egg. Infertile eggs are produced by hens that have no male birds with them.

The following table shows that the losses of fertile eggs are computed to be nearly twice as great as in the case of infertile eggs.

	Fertile Eggs	Infertile Eggs
	Per cent	Per cent
On the farm	29.0	15.5
At country store	7.1	4.0
Transportation to packing house	6.4	4.7
Total	42.5	24.2