The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 22, 1919, Page 13

ADVERTISEMENTS Making ’Em Lay in the Winter Time The Right Care Must Supplement the Right Bird and the S nght House to Win Success Where Upkeep Counts Mbsté A good laying flock of white leghotns. BY FRED A. HARDING #] HE poultryman may have the right bird and the right house, but if he doesn’t know how prop- erly to care for and feed his chickens in the win- ter time he might as well give up hopes of profits from winter eggs. This article will deal largely with feeding for winter egg production, since proper care is largely a matter of keeping the fowls comfortable. and the right house will solve the greater part of that problem. Given the right house, proper -care includes intelligent ventilation, keep- ing the house clean and feedmg at- regular intervals. Difficulties of ventilation are large- ly overcome in the “Minnesota model poultry house,” described in a previous article. On warm days, the sliding glass windows and burlap windows should be opened wide. In moderately cold weather the glass'windows should be closed and the fresh air admitted ‘through the meshes in the burlap ventilating windows. When the ther- mometer registers way below the zero mark it will be necessary to close the shutters over the burlap windows and admit fresh air by raising the glass windows slightly from the top. Good judgment or common sense should dic- tate the varymg degrees of ventila- tion, bearing in mind always that draughts are fatal. If the poultryman is gomg to keep the house clean he must be prepared to work to that end. The droppings should not be.allowed to accumulate. Unceasing warfare against lice and mites must be waged. Whitewash is. a grand old purifier. PROPERLY BALANCED RATION IMPORTANT -~ Proper feeding for winter egg pro- duction necessitates first a’ properly: balanced ration, which means right proportions of various feed stuffs, which will maintain the bodily needs of the hen or pullet and in addition provide such material that the bird may produce eggs'in quantity. The variety of food must be suffi- cient to stimulate the appetite, supply materials for bodily heat and energy and furnish egg-forming ingredients. A method of feeding must be em- ployed that will compel exercise on the part of the fowls. It should go without saying that tainted or damaged grains must not be used for feed. According to Professor A. C. Smlth : of the college of agriculture of the University of Minnesota, “there, are four classes of foods that are abso- lutely necessary in a winter-laying ration. 1. Grains, for energy, heat and flesh and egg-forming materials. Grains are usually fed in two forms; ground, called mashes, and in the kernel, the latter called scratch feed. 2. Greens, for aid to digestion, principally. ;i 3. Animal foods, rich in egg and flesh-forming materials. These in- clude scraps of meat and ground bone, the most essential as well as the most : expensive ingredient in all laying ra- tions. 4. Mineral matter, as an aid to di- gestion and for the further purpose of supplying material for shells. and bodily maintenance. Mineral matter for poultry includes sharp, grit, oyster shells and charcoal. " CHICKENS MUST HAVE EXERCISE IN WINTER Too much emphasis can not be plac- ed on feeding which will compel exer- cise, especially in cold weather. Feed cracked. corn, wheat, oats, barley or spelz in the litter and make the fowls scratch for it. Corn and wheat are the most palatable, but the corn ought to be cracked, since whole corn sat- isfies the appetite too quickly. When cracked corn is fed as a scratch feed, the corn should be sifted and the smaller particles used in the mash. Poultrymen are agreed,’ I think, that about 25 per cent of the daily ration should be fed in the morning, 25 ‘per-cent at noon and 50 per cent at mght In bitterly cold weather it is a good plan to feed little grain at a time and often in the litter. With a dry mash before'the fowls, about one quart of hard grains should be fed for every 12 birds, but appetites should “govern this amount. The poultry section of the Universi- ty of Minnesota farm offers the fol- lowing formulae for laying mashes: 1. Equal parts of corn or hominy meal, bran, wheat middlings, finely ground oats, alfalfa or clover meal, with two parts of heef scraps. 2. Six parts corn or hominy meal, four parts ground oats, four parts wheat middlings, two parts bran, two parts alfalfa or clover meal, seven parts beef scraps. 3. 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