Excerpt from The Poultry Keeper, Vol. 29: A Journal for Everyone Interested in Making Poultry Pay; Devoted Particularly to Practical Poultry Keeping; April, 1912
At night or in the evening about one hour before dusk they are fed quarts of corn, either cracked or whole, in the litter. All grains are fed 'warm, not hot. No wet mashes are ever fed.
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