Show im ja i FOOD FOR CHICKS GIVEN BY KAUPP KAUPIZ mash and grain should be fed first nine weeks the fircks with which one will start a poultry flock of 50 liens hens to 0 b be e raised will first need pounds 0 of f feed up until the ninth week and thereafter for the whole year the 50 hens selected will need pounds of feed the pounds of feed needed for the chlpka up until the ninth week should ie be pounds of mash feed and pounds of grain says dr BT B F kaupp head of the poultry department part ment at the north carolina state college then when the SO hens are selected from the lot these hens will need 50 pounds of grain and 35 pounds of mash per hen for a year this makes at total of pounds of feed that should be provided on the home farm of this amount 2500 pounds Is grain feed and may be supplied by 23 bushels of corn 24 bushels of oats and 13 bushels of wheat to supply the 1750 pounds of mash feed also in the ration the grower should raise 10 bushels of corn and 11 bushels of oats some additional feed will also be needed on the poultry farm for young and growing birds therefore doctor kaupp says if the average farm keeping a flock of 50 adult hens lien swill produce tor for the poultry 25 bushels of corn 20 26 bushels of oats and 15 bushels of wheat the owned ovner will need to buy only about pounds of fish meal or meat meal pounds of and 75 pounds of bone meal to have his birds well fed doctor kaupp has worked out a laying mash and a grain feed which has given excellent results on the experimental poultry farms the successful farmer who keeps a flock of purebred pure bred poultry as a sideline side line should not have to buy his feed feedstuffs stuffs they can be raised and mixed at home with excellent results declares doctor kaupp |