Wheat as a Poultry Food.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 July 1910, Page 4

Wheat as a Poultry Food.

In poultry-feeding wheat undoubtedly plays a conspicuous part, and is largely used for adults, also chickens, which could hardly do without this life-sustainiing grain, especially when its Ly-proSucts, •Hucih as middlings or sharps, and bran, are considered (says an Engirt contemporary). The latter, it cannot bo itoo widely known, is rich in .phosphates and bone-forming material, A word of warning, however, should bo given about bran-feeding, for, whilst sharps or middlings can bo mived or used for drying off any soft food without preparation, bran, whether used in Kargo or small quantities, should always be first well scalded and allowed to stand before using, which renders it > more easily dEgedtiible, more especially 'in feeding young birds, digestive organs are liable to bo injured by the somewhat fibrous nature of bran. Howover, in the case of over-fatted hens there is _ little danger, and a healthy condition of the organs may bo safely stated! that sharps and bran ara excellent* additions for the mash or soft food, which should form the portion of wheat that comes next to the part of the gram which is: used for human rood. Sharps come next in, varied grades of fine and cdarse, followed by the bran. Poult-y----koepers are reminded, thai it is not the large plump, wheat that is the most nutritious, for "tail wheat." providing it is not too thin, is a,n excellent feed, owing to the larger amou nit of the outer portions, which is more nourishing to fowls than the inner.