Show rotation of hen yard has many advantages divide the poultry range in two suggests the poultry department ai at the ohio state university and rotate the flock with green crops if the flock Is permitted to cover the entire range all the ti time me they will soon kill all the vegetation around the poultry house T this his will make it necessary to provide green feed from another source and at greater expense the yard will also become unsanitary and often a sea of mud after a hard bard rain early fall sown rye provides an ideal tall fall supply of green feed for poultry rape sown in early su nl mer will provide succulence in the ration a large part of the summer jt it can be pastured as soon as it Is three or tour four inches high halt half the yard Is given to range and pasture for the flock while the other half is in preparation for another crop A woven wire fence five feet high will serve to keep the chickens oft off the growing crop on the range the fence should be staked well at the bottom for usually more chickens go under fences than over them |