FEED A FOWL FOWL FOOD, NOT FOUL FOOD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 55, 14 June 1948, Page 5

FEED A FOWL FOWL FOOD, NOT FOUL FOOD

Tlie bad old eggless winter days are Over, no longer will the grocers be able to throw back their heads and laugh at the question “Have you any eggs?” because the Beacon has found, a system of producing eggs all the year round. The secret, according to Mr and Mrs H. Carr of Landing Hoad is feeding all the year round one good food, and regular meal times for the hens.

After the story on the egg position in Tuesday’s paper these subscribers phoned and said that the egg position w'as only as bad as it was made by the starvation off season feeding of the chook. Good, easily digested food that does not stick in the craw is the only winter egg-producing food that can be used. When the weather is cold. it necessitates the use of more of the food the hen digests to keep herself warm, so that not so much gets to the egg production line and not so many eggs get to the consumer. Therefore part of the answer is, according to Mr and Mrs Carr, feed a, fowl fowl food riot foul food.

Next step in the Carr winter egg production system is the regular and consistent feeding of the means of production. If you feed a baby at any old time it won’t respond the same as if it were fed regularly. And so with a chook. Feed a chook at any old time and it will throw its egg-timing all out of gear, sometimes it won’t lay for a couple of days and eventually it loses all track of the time it should lay and gives up altogether. Thus a winter egg shortage. Another thing is consistent type of food. A hen, unlike a human, does not sicken of the same food; it likes it that way. So feed a fowl the same food all the time and it will lay better.