 | 1905 - 476 sider
...during the first few weeks. The digestive organs must be kept in normal condition by the use of some hard foods, and the gizzard must not be deprived of...legitimate work and allowed to become weak by disuse. Clean water, charcoal, granulated bone, oyster shell, and sharp grit are always kept by them. Mangolds... | |
 | 1907 - 372 sider
...Young chicks like the moist mash better than though it was not moistened, and will eat more of it. There is no danger from the free use of the properly...wheat, that is not sour or musty, should be used. FINISHING THE BROILERS. When the chickens are about 9 or 10 weeks old, and the cockerels weigh a pound... | |
 | 1910 - 1016 sider
...first few weeks. The digestive organs must be kept in normal condition by the partial use of hard feed, and the gizzard must not be deprived of its legitimate...old the small broken grains are discontinued and the two litter feeds are wholly of screened cracked corn and whole wheat. Only good clean wheat that is... | |
 | Albert Allis Hopkins - 1910 - 1098 sider
...first few weeks. The digestive organs must be kept in normal condition by the partial use of hard feed, and the gizzard must not be deprived of its legitimate...old the small broken grains are discontinued and the two litter feeds are wholly of screened cracked corn and whole wheat. Only good clean wheat that is... | |
 | Albert Allis Hopkins - 1921 - 1102 sider
...organs must be kept in normal condition by the partial use of hard feed, and the gizzard must riot be deprived of its legitimate work and allowed to...old the small broken grains are discontinued and the two litter feeds are wholly of screened cracked corn and whole wheat. Only good clean wheat that is... | |
 | Maine Agricultural Experiment Station - 1914 - 734 sider
...digestive organs mu^t he kept in normal condition by the partial use of hard feed, and the gizzard mu.-t not be deprived of its legitimate work and allowed...old the small broken grains are discontinued and the two litter feeds are wholly of screened cracked corn and whole wheat. Only good clean wheat that is... | |
 | Raymond Pearl - 1916 - 108 sider
...first few weeks. The digestive organs must be kept in normal condition by the partial use of hard feed, and the gizzard must not be deprived of its legitimate...old the small broken grains are discontinued and the two litter feeds are wholly of screened cracked corn and whole wheat. Only good clean wheat that is... | |
 | Maine Agricultural Experiment Station - 1916 - 854 sider
...first few weeks. The digestive organs must be kept in normal condition by the partial use of hard feed, and the gizzard must not be deprived of its legitimate...old the small broken grains are discontinued and the two litter feeds are wholly of screened cracked corn and whole wheat. Only good clean wheat that is... | |
 | Maine. Department of Agriculture - 1907 - 612 sider
...Young chicks like the moist mash better than though it was not moistened, and will eat more of it. There is no danger from the free use of the properly...wheat, that is not sour or musty, should be used. FINISHING THE BROILERS. When the chickens are about 9 or 10 weeks old, and the cockerels weigh a pound... | |
 | 1907 - 406 sider
...up of 2 parts by weight of good clean bran, 4 parts corn meal, 2 parts middlings or red dog flour, i part linseed meal and 2 parts screened beef scrap....clean wheat that is not sour or musty should be used. When young chicks are fed as described the results have always been satisfactory, if they have not... | |
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... food is all coarse. This is a very important fact and should be taken advantage of, at the time when the young things are most susceptible to rapid growth. But the development must be moderate during the first few weeks. The digestive organs must... 