Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 1, Number 11, DeMotte, Jasper County, 6 October 1932 — Poultry Notes [ARTICLE]

Poultry Notes

Increase the green feed for hens laying pale-yolked eggs. * * * Don’t keep anything that is not worth feeding, but feed anything that is worth keeping. * * * Cleanliness and sanitation are the most important factors in raising chicks successfully, if the chicks are free from disease to start with and the proper feed is available. * * * Recent studies indicate that larger amounts of mash and milk in the poultry feed ration improve the grade, increase the weight, and thus increase the net return to the grower. * * * Among the minerals that should be found in a balanced ration are: common salt, oyster shell, limestone, clamshell, bone, rock phosphate and phosphatic limestone. * * * Milk is an excellent drink for chickens. Besides providing some protein, it also supplies minerals and a certain quantity of lactic acid. * * * Prospects for a larger poultry crop for market this fall and winter are indicated. * * * It is believed that a hen requires 75 per cent of what she consumes for her bodily needs. * * * Rape is quite commonly fed to laying pullets as a green feed. Rape has a tendency to darken the yolks of the eggs and make them look orange in color. * * * It is important that the pens have a regular supply of grit and oyster shell, the latter to provide materials for shells.