| Show MILK SUPPLY FOR CHICKENS any kind sweet or sour our helps keep fowls in condition and adds flesh prepared by the united states department of agriculture Poultry meu who have or can obtain at a reasonable price plenty of milk are to in a position to raise their flocks ut less expense and with a far greater amount of success than those who are una unable ae to include this valuable food in the flocks diet milk Is especially for young chickens and for tile the fattening of poultry where it Is done on a large scale and the poultry Is closely confined buttermilk and skim milk are the two forms of milk which are most commonly used in feeding chicks and laying lading hens and these products product a are also used to some extent in commercial fattening semisolid semi solid and condensed buttermilk are now being fed quite extensively in the commercial fattening of poultry and to some extent to chicks and laying liens hens milk products are readily digestible by chickens and have a marked bene facial effect in addition to their actual food value alue poultry specialists in united states department of agriculture say they especially help keep small cl chickens ickens free from aiom bowel trouble many poultry inen like to dip the dew newly ly hatched chicks chick s bill into milk tor for their first brit tied feed as it helps to clean out the chicks digestive system milk products acts may be fed to chickens and to older stock stack either in a sweet or sour condition the moie mora common practice Is to fee feed d these products continuously either sweet or sour sour and n not ot to alternate the use of sour and sweet milk in feeding milk products to hens the milk Is usually kept before beffie them as a drink and Is also used to tb some extent in mixing the mash wherever rover a moist mash Is used poultry will not get t sufficient protein from milk supplied way bayto to take the place of meat s C rf 6 commonly used in fo the poultry mash in order to furnish sufficient protein in tile ration to take the place of meat scrap the milk must 9 be a thickened form such as clobbered clabbered ed milk or cottage cheese when fed in this condition enough can be readily supplied to give high egg production and good results without any other animal protein teed feed where milk Is supplied fairly regularly to the laying lading hens it Is not essential to fur L x V chickens of all ages agea like milk elsh any green feed as the milk will take tho the place of the green feed to good advantage in the commercial fattening ot of poultry where the chickens or hens are very closely confined and fed A a forced ration tor a limited period usually U from 7 to 17 days Is considered essential practically no commercial fattening or of poultry Is conducted on a large scale in this country except where milk Is used tor for feeding A ration with a consistency of porridge which contains about 05 per cent milk to Is commonly fed in this work the milk serves not only as a source of teed feed but keeps the digestive organs of these thesa fattening chickens in good condition and also gives the chickens a bleach characteristic of well fattened I 1 poultry prom from this method of 0 feeding the neina namo of milk t fed e d chickens Is taken and it Is applied to nearly all of the alie commercial fattened chickens many of these fattening stations station sare are located in small email country towns cowna and cities where buttermilk Is available from creameries crea meries at it a very low price but as the supply of this buttermilk Is becoming more limited especially in the larger towne and cities the various concentrate fl forms ot of butte buttermilk milk are being used very extensively in fut ft bening poultry semisolid and condensed buttermilk are the two other forms most commonly used in feed ing both of these products to chickens chic ketan for fattening milk Is usually supplied in it a more highly concentrated form am than ordinary buttermilk |
