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Show Average Poultry Ration in Both Grain and Mash The usual amount of grain given to 100 Leghorn pullets at this time of the-year the-year is about 14 pounds per day. About the same amount of mash will be consumed by them. For heavier breeds from one to two more pounds of grain Is fed per hundred birds per day, and they will consume about as much mash as grain. These amounts of feed also hold good for 100 hens. As to the amount of feed for 50 chicks: in a period of six weeks 50 chicks will consume a-iotal of approximately approx-imately 100 pounds of feed, including both grain and mash. A daily feed schedule for 50 chicks for the first six weeks would be somewhat as follows: Grain for the first week. 10 ounces; second week, 11 ounces ; third week, 1 pound ; fourth week, 1 pounds, fifth week, 194 pounds; sixth week, 2 pounds. For mash, 11 ounces during the second sec-ond week, 1 pound, the third week, IM pounds the fourth week, 1 pounds the fifth week, 2 pounds the sixth week. Montreal Herald. |