Show find chickens do well on barley hogs refuse scabby barley which hogs usually will not eat may be safely fed to chickens it gives about the same results in the hens ration as I 1 normal barley a two year experiment at the national agricultural re research center of the united states department ol of agriculture shows rations containing 30 and 38 per cent of scabby barley were compared in feeding trials with rations having the same quantity of corn or of normal barley hens on scabby barley laid just as many eggs and maintained their weight as well as those on the other two diets the only noticeable difference was that birds fed the ration containing corn ate 10 to 13 per cent less feed for each egg laid when barley replaces yellow corn in the ration it is best to supply vitamin A by including either alfalfa leaf meal or cod liver oil barley contains little of this vitamin blany if any scab is a fungus disease which affects the quality of barley grain and reduces the yield it is usually carried over from the previous year on corn stalks and small grain stubble |