Feeding the Breeding Cockerels
These birds are fed green food about eight o’clock in the morning. In
good weather it is fed in their large range yard, where the attendant
scatters it in small bunches over a wide area. At 11:30 is fed to every
hundred birds, six quarts of corn, wheat and oats, two-thirds corn,
the wheat and oats making up the other third. This is also distributed
widely over the yard. In this way the cockerels are kept busy hunting
for food, and they are less likely to get into broils with each other
for entertainment.
At 1:30 o’clock they are allowed to return to their House, having been
shut out during the morning hours. The Mash is fed daily at 1:30, and
a sufficient amount is placed in their troughs for them to thoroughly
clean up by roosting time.
Sufficient grain is fed in the litter in the House to make the quantity
for the day’s rations about eight quarts for one hundred birds.
[Illustration: BREEDING COCKERELS FALL OF 1911]