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Show USE SURPLUS MILK TO GROW BROILERS Weight Is Added Faster and Meat Is Better. By R E. Cray, Extension Specialist, In Poultry Husbandry. Ohio State University- WNU Service A use for some of the surplus milk I on the farm is seen in the practice of I milk-fattening broilers. This practice may lead to four possible gains. Milk-fattened broilers add weight faster than do cockerels on range. Their meat is of better quality, and In some markets the broilers will command com-mand a better price because of it By hastening the maturity of the cockerels for broilers the poultryman can separate sepa-rate them from the pullets sooner, which will result in better laying stock. Fattening cockerels in feeding batteries bat-teries leads to best results, and. very fine results may be secured by pen-fattening If the pens are darkened between be-tween feedings so that the birds exercise ex-ercise less than they do normally. A good fattening ration may be made of three pounds of yellow corn meal and one pound of wheat flour middlings, mid-dlings, mixed with liquid mirk to the consistency of a batter that pours readily from a bucket. If liquiu milk Is not available, semisolid semi-solid buttermilk may be used in place of the skimmilk at the rate of 1 pounds to each gallon of water. Very little feed should be given the birds the first day a fattening ration is put before them. Let the birds get hungry. Give them as much feed as they can clean up In five minutes tha morning of the second day, and in tiie evening, as much as they will eat in ten minutes. Not until the third day shouid the chickens be giveD full feedings as much as they will eat in 10 to 15 minutes min-utes morning, noon, and night. Nothing Noth-ing to drink should be giveu the chickens. As much liquid as they need is contained in the wet mash. |