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Show SEPARATING YOUNG AND OLD Growing Pullet Requires More 'Food Than Old Birds and Feeds Better When by Herself. Young chickens, like young people, have more or less timidity, and therefore there-fore it is not well to run young and ' old together, at least it is much bet-ter bet-ter to have them separate if you can well do so. Then again the pullets are I still growing, and they need plenty of, flesh-forming feed, such as barley, bone, meat, with less of fattening foods. . ' I The hen should not be deprived of.' V these either, but she can get along on less, as what you give her will not be taken away from the purpose for ; which you intended it, as in the case with the pullet, which not only needs i theBe things for making the egg, but ! to go toward the development of her body. It naturally follows, too, that the . developed bird will require less feed than the pullet, and because the pullet pul-let is Bomewhat, timid she is likely not to get enough, or even her share. The young will feed more free among themselves, and, if you can possibly do bo, keep them to themselves. |