| Show L idt ky MINERAL SUPPLY MAY CAUSE ILLS small amount only oni y needed with meat scraps too much mineral la in the chick ration may cause as much trouble as too little declares P B zumbro extension specialist in poultry husbandry for the ohio state university an oversupply of mineral may cause causa abnormal bone development in young chicks and be responsible for chicks going down on their legs just as too little mineral ma may y be responsible for subnormal development of bone with the same result it if plenty of meat scrap and skim milk Is included in the ration for chicles chicks from but hatching ching time to ten weeks of age there is need tor for but little mineral materials in the ration zumbro says meat bleat scraps contain 20 to 25 per cent of lime and calcium the two minerals that make up 75 per cent of the ash in chickens and one tenth of the total solids in skim milk Is phosphorus and calcium more minerals are required in the ration when some form of vegetable protein Is substituted for meat scraps or when a high protein meat scrap la Is used he says zumbro recommends a ration containing 45 pounds of ground yellow corn 15 pounds of 5 pounds of bran 10 pounds of oats and to supply the minerals 12 pounds of meat scrap 5 pounds of dried milk milic and 1 pound of salt some poultry men are mistakenly reducing the amount of cod liver oil fed in the ration if plenty of minerals aln rals are fed the cod liver oil Is 16 necessary to supply the vitamins which enable the chicks to assimilate the minerals into the bones zumbro explains |
