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Show f ; 1 i About Poultry Feeding 1 t i The hiu'h pri'-es of .'rain this past year have caused many poultry people to try different feeds and feedili'-' from what might be called standard feeding. From reports reachir.? the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania department of agriculture and the observations of the poultry experts ex-perts in its employ, these experiments in new or abbreviated feeding have mostly been a failure and have resulted re-sulted in much poultry having made an unprofitable growth and being puny and stunted. A notable exception is the feeding of boiled oats, which feed, previously used by only a few poultry keepers, has become very popular, particularly among the larger poultry keepers having hav-ing much feeding to do. Boiled oats are greedily eaten by' chickens of all ages ; make a good growing and a good laying feed and in results obtained or obtainable are proving to be the cheapest food that has Ijeen available the last six months. Bailed oats have largely, too, superseded super-seded the sprouted oats so much exploited ex-ploited a few years ago, as they are safer, a better and a less fussy feed. To prepare, soak good, heavy oats 12 hours or more (in hot weather or a warm room a fresh lot should be soaked daily), dissolve one table-spoonful table-spoonful of salt in each bucket of water used for this; boil two or three-hours three-hours and so gauge the amount of water used for soaking that at the finish the water is boiled away. Feed warm, but not hot. White Leghorn pullets can have these boiled oats twice daily, say, at 10 a. m. and 4. p. m., and all they will eat up clean. For old hens or heavyweight pullets, one feed a day is enough, and not too much at that, lest they become too fat on this much-liked feed. |
