Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — SEPARATING YOUNG AND OLD [ARTICLE]

SEPARATING YOUNG AND OLD

Pullets Need Plenty of Flesh Forming Food, Such as Barley, With Less Fattening Feeds. Young chickens, like young people, have more or less timidity and therefore it is not well to run young and old together, at least it is much better to have therp separate if you can well do so. Then again the pullets are still growing and they need plenty of flesh forming; feed, such as barley, bone, meat with less of fattening foods. The hen should not be deprived of these either, but she can get along on less, as what you give her will not be taken away from the purpose for which you intended it, as in the case with the pullet, which not only needs these things for making the egg, bwt to go toward the development of her body. It naturally follows, too, that the developed bird will require less feed than the pullet, and because the pullet is somewhat timid she Is likely not to get enough, or even her share. The young will feed more free among themselves and if you can possibly do so, keep them to themselves.