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Show FATTEN CHICKS FOR MARKET Arizona Woman Has Much Succesi With Coop Covered With Wire Netting Ration Used. I am having great success in fatten, lng my overstock of chick cockerel! for hotel and restaurant trade, writei Mrs. Almo of Roswell, N. M., ln th Farmers' Mail and Breeze. My feeding coop shown in the drawing has a solid floor of matched boards, covered with nn inch of road grit The top Is covered cov-ered with poultry netting, over whicll a solid roof Is hinged, which may hi raised on warm days. The front anr Coop for Market Feeding. west end are covered with wire netting. net-ting. The roosts are in the west end of the coop. The feed drawer is covered cov-ered with two-inch mesh wire netting net-ting and one feeding a week will do, I feed the following mixture for fattening: fat-tening: One quart each, alfalfa meal, corn chop and bran, and one pint meat scraps. This way of feeding saves both time and feed and I now make money where I lost money before with ordinary care. Besides my own stock, I buy chicks of the quick-growing breeds to fatten. |