The Farm-poultry . op for the night once or twice the henseldom gives further trouble on that score. Feeding the Young: Chickens. The feeding of young chickens need not ditier muchfrom the feeding of adult fowls. The young i^hick needsfood oftener, and needs it in form appropriate to its size,but except for these two particulars the systems andmethods of feeding can be the same for both small chicksand fowls, — providinij tin- inelliod of fetdbuj tlie fowls isgood. If the method of feeding the fowls is bad, theeflects on the young chicks will be very much worse than on the fowls, and their dig
The Farm-poultry . op for the night once or twice the henseldom gives further trouble on that score. Feeding the Young: Chickens. The feeding of young chickens need not ditier muchfrom the feeding of adult fowls. The young i^hick needsfood oftener, and needs it in form appropriate to its size,but except for these two particulars the systems andmethods of feeding can be the same for both small chicksand fowls, — providinij tin- inelliod of fetdbuj tlie fowls isgood. If the method of feeding the fowls is bad, theeflects on the young chicks will be very much worse than on the fowls, and their digestive systems are easilyruined. In this we have the explanation of the fact that somany people do really find it necessary to use a rationfor their chicks different from that given their fowls, andwhen they do the general tendency is to go much furtherthan necessary in fussing with fooils for the chicks. Inthis, too, we have an explanation for the fact that thedry feed system began to be applied extensively with. One line tor a Wood Iile. young chicks some time before much attention was givenit in connection with the feeding of old fowls, and while1 personally do not use the dry feed system for youngchicks I can easily see that a great many get betterresults by it than by their appli(!ation of a mash Errors in Feeding is nothing mysterious, compli(!ate<l or diflicultabout the proper feeding of young chicks, and yet mostbeginners have a great deal of trouble with them. So before discussing a few of the good methods of feedinglet us have a statement of some of the more commonerrors in feeding. /. When xofl food in med, often loo much of it is many mmlx of xofl food are given, and nol enoughhtud grain. People either do not know or do not appreciate thefact that the chit k unlike the young of mammals and ofpigeons, has digestive organs that will take just the samekind of food the adult fowls take. The old fashioned way of feeding chicks was
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