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Show Balanced Ration for Hens Very Important Until about fifty years ago chickens chick-ens were fed only grain and since they were permitted to range at will they secured their essential require-ments require-ments so they could live and lay Sonie eggs during the spring. About "this time It was discovered that additional ad-ditional protein In form of meat or milk fed with the grains became known as the balanced ration a ration ra-tion in which the surplus carbohydrates carbohy-drates of the grains were balanced In better proportion by adding a protein pro-tein concentrate. It was the bal i nnced ration that first made com- i mercial poultry keeping possible, but in the light of recent Information on the nutrition of chickens, the poul-trytnan's poul-trytnan's feeding problem of today Is to complete- the balanced ration. I |