Show forcing breeding hens forcing breeding hens by increasing the amount of protein in the ration may be done with no ill effects if an abundance of green ereen feed is supplied recent experiments conducted at the oklahoma agricultural experiment sta station 1 on show that the mortality of the bre breed ed ers fed green feed was not increased by forcing observes a writer in in successful farming green feed protects the hatching qualities ot of eggs produced by forced breeders bleeders bre eders rations with a protein content as high as 28 per cent may be fed without injury to the hatchability of eggs if sprouted oats alfalfa meal or some other green feed is fed each day where forcing is done by increasing the protein in the teed feed and using lights the use of green feed is especially important to maintain good advances in the total egg production pr doduc |