Show Chicks Get Their Feed New Way Today As Farmers Take It Easy Br Dy IRA MILLER Farm Form Electrification Bureau II Here ere chick chick chick This old centuries call tall of the to h his barnyard flock to come and get It is rapidly losing Its appeal m its place on electrified farms It is giving way to Inarticulate but more efficient automatic poultry feeders feeder Pioneered In 1946 1846 by the School of Agriculture Pennsylvania State College College Col Col- I lege electrically operated feeders are designed to save the many hours of labor Involved in a typical hand hand- feeding chore If you dont don't know how much work Is involved in feedIng feedIng feedIng feed- feed Ing poultry heres here's what Penn States State's studies disclose You handle 5 to 7 tons of mash to feed 1000 broilers to market age about 40 tons of mash to feed 1000 turkeys for 28 weeks 25 tons of mash 25 tons of scratch grain and variable quantities of other supplementary feeds annually In feeding 1000 laying hens That's a lot of feed feed and and represents represents represents rep rep- resents a lot of work No wonder automatic poultry feeders have appeared appeared ap ap- pea red on the market as another Inthe in inthe inthe the growing list of electrical time and labor savers These devices consist of three main maina I parts a hopper which holds about a days day's supply of feed a feeding trough In which a special conveyor chain moves and a drive mechanism with an electric motor to move the chain and feed The trough is set let up In a continuous line usually line usually oblong In shape shape so o that thit the endless chain travels around In It carrying a conk con supply of fresh tresh feed teed from the hopper The amount of teed feed in the a t AUTOMATIC CHICKEN FEEDERS take FEEDERS take over hand labor chore trough is controlled to the desired level Any type of feed mash teed mash grain or pellets pellets are are evenly distributed oa olt 0 the straightaway or around corners corner Automatic feeders are made for far both small and large poultry opera opera- tors Their use has developed slowly with about installed as of six months ago At Atthe the close of ot 1050 1950 however however how how- ever this figure had grown to approximately approximately Studies record that the use of ot automatic automatic auto auto- matic matte feeders will reduce feeding time by as much as 50 One experiment experiment expert ment shows that layers will produce a dozen eggs with 7 10 of a ton less feed when fed automatically than when fed by hand This is because automatic feeders practically eliminate eliminate eliminate nate waste and because fresh feed is always available Well fed led birds grow faster and lay better An automatic feeder will use about 1 per day per 1000 laying hens |