Standard-bred Plymouth Rocks, Barred, White, Buff, Silver Penciled, Partridge and Columbian; Their Practical Qualities; How to Judge Them; How to Mate and Breed for Best Results
Standard-bred Plymouth Rocks, Barred, White, Buff, Silver Penciled, Partridge and Columbian; Their Practical Qualities; How to Judge Them; How to Mate and Breed for Best Results
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...breeds, one has to be careful about feeding corn too plentifully, and I have found wheat to be the safest main or staple food, while oats are very good also, especially for young stock. I keep the water crocks well filled with water, with the chill taken off in winter, and at this season give the birds ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...breeds, one has to be careful about feeding corn too plentifully, and I have found wheat to be the safest main or staple food, while oats are very good also, especially for young stock. I keep the water crocks well filled with water, with the chill taken off in winter, and at this season give the birds green stuff to work on such as mangels, cabbage, and sometimes boiled potatoes. I do not feed meat scrap in hopper as I have found that it gives better results when mixed with grain, using only the best meat scrap, which to be good must have very little pork in it. In feeding I aim to always have the hens go to roost with their crops full. In deciding on breeds for layers one is often asked the comparative amount of food different varieties will consume. It has been repeatedly proved that fowls of the small varieties will eat just about as much in a day as fowls of the heavier breeds, but under the same conditions of housing and feeding they give widely different results Right here is where the value of scientific breeding for the utility points comes in. The cost to hatch and grow a Barred Plymouth Rock chick to laying age is governed by surroundings, the number of chicks and the method of raising, but 35 cents to 50 cents each is a fair estimate where everything has to be purchased. The cost of keeping a mature specimen for one year will average from $1.60 to $1.75 each bird, which does not vary greatly from the smaller varieties. HOW THE CHICKS ARE FED In growing the chicks I first feed them hard boiled eggs, mashed in sand and corn meal, and crack food composed of fine sifted cracked corn, cracked wheat, oatmeal, charcoal and grit. Whole oats are given as soon as they will eat them. Oats and coarse bran are kept in the hoppers before...
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