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Show CUT BONE ENCOURAGES EGGS Lessens Death Rate in Chicks, and Keeps Old Stock in Healthier Condition in Winter. 'By WILLIAM JACK.) When I commenced feeding green cut bone, about the first thing I did was to find its feeding value by actual test. Hens under like conditions, with fresh-cut green bone added to their feed laid nearly twice as many eggs in the winter season and a third more In the summer season than did the lot without the bone. Fifty-eight chicks hatched at the same time from the same kind of eggs were divided into two lots and treated the same, except one lot was fed some extra. The lot with bone extra to their feed grew much faster and at the end of 13 weeks, the end of the test, a person would never have thought the two lots were the same. The lot fed the bone were not only larger, but had clearer and brighter plumage. The lot that ate the bone went through the test with the loss of but one, while the lot without the bone sustained a loss of five. This, with other observations, leads me to believe feeding bone will lessen the death rate in chicks and that old stock will be healthier. |