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Excerpt from How to Feed Fowls: A Treatise on the Proper Foods for Poultry, From the Shell to Maturity, for Laying or Breeding Stock, and for Exhibition or Market Purposes
Feeding fowls has been often and very justly compared to supplying a factory with raw material. Nothing can be more apt. And, just as the materials with which a factory is supplied may vary according to the nature of the manufactured article required, so the fancier must feed with due reference to his particular wants, and not go on in that careless, thoughtless way of giving one article alone to all his fowls, whatever be their condition or function, and then expecting equally good results.
We may feed for eggs and eggs alone; we may feed for young marketable chickens alone, we may feed for good round pounds and ounces alone, and finally for health and vigor in our breeding stock alone. In each of these cases the method of feeding and of our other treatment of the fowl will vary, must vary, if we are to make a good thing, pecuniarily speaking, out of keeping poultry.
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