Nutrition

Extract

Feeding Trials with laying Hens. J. Holmes Martin and W. M. Insko. Agric. Exp. Station, Lexington, Ky., Bulletin no. 294

Part. I. Varying Percentages of Meat Scrap in the Mash for supplementing Milk.

Summary:

1. 1. When Barred Plymouth Rock pullets were fed a shelled-com-skim-milk ration, supplemented with a mash containing meat scrap, the average production for three years was as follows: 2½ % meat scrap—170 eggs; 5 %—162.4 eggs; 7½ %—174 eggs; and 10 %—162.7 eggs. rrhe winter averages were: 2½% meat scrap—47.3 eggs; 5 %—48.4 eggs; and 10 %—44.4 eggs.