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Show Fattening of Poultry for Holiday Markets The chickens that are fat will be the ones that will bring the highest price on the market during the holiday trade. Always the fat ones are bought before the poor ones. So warns D. H. Hall, extension poultry husbandman, husband-man, Clemson college, in discussing the fattening of poultry for market. The fattening ration of birds is. very simple, says Mr. Hall. You have enough protein to build up muscle, but the carbohydrates content should be high. A soft feed or mash should be fed in order to make the muscles as soft as possible. The following ration will make a good fattening food : 50 pounds corn meal, 25 pounds wheat bran, 25 pounds middlings. Mix the above with two parts buttermilk. but-termilk. Wlfen buttermilk is not available, avail-able, meat scrap can be mixed with this ration at the rate of 15 pounds per 100 and water used to moisten the mash. Young fowls stand confinement well, but old hens do not. It is best to fatten young fowls In coops and old hens in small runs. A fowl on fattening fatten-ing ration should gain from 50 to 90 per cent of its own weight. |