The Poultryman's Formulary Reliable, Successful, Tested Recipes for ReadyMixed Grain Foods Classic Reprint

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In this chapter will be found formulae for balanced-ration or ready-mixed poultry foods including scratch-grain mixtures, dry mash, moist-mash mixtures, chick foods, and home-prepared meat food. All of these recipes have been carefully tested by many years practical use and are entirely reliable and depend able. No reference is made to the chemical composition of food stuffs and these balanced-ration mixtures are based on practical merit, not chemical composition. Anyone desiring to figure out the precise chemical contents of foodstuffs named will find complete analyses of all the common stock feeding materials in Farmer's Bulletin, No. 22, entitled The Feeding of Farm Ani mals, published by U. S. Department of Agriculture. This bulletin can be obtained free on application to the Secretary of Agriculture.

In selecting a food ration the poultryman should be gov erned by the practical results obtained. Chemical analyses of food merely show the amount of water, fibre, protein, ash, fat, and non-nitrogenous matter the chemist is able to find therein. They do not indicate in any way the digestibility of the food. Some foodstuffs may be particularly rich in protein and at the same time that protein may be of little actual, practical value to the fowl because of difficulty in properly digesting it. Some foods rich in protein, notably beans and peas, also contain irri tating or toxic elements that are actually injurious if such foods are fed continuously in considerable quantities. Heavy feeding of vegetable foods rich in protein is always much more likely to cause trouble and serious digestive disturbance than heavy feed ing of animal protein foods like pure beef scrap, fresh meat, cut green bone, etc.

In mixing grain foods, the formulae for which are given in this chapter, the Whole quantity of grain to be mixed should be dumped upon a smooth clean board floor. Here it should be mixed by turning over with scoop shovels until thoroughly blended. It can then be sacked or placed in bins.

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