. The chick book, from the breeding pen through the shell to maturity : contains the experience of the world's leading poultrymen ... Poultry. FEEDING CHICKENS BALANCED RATIONS. From Hatching Time to Maturity—Suitable Foods and Quantities for the Different Periods of Growth—Feeding the Newly Hatched Chick—Balancing the Rations—Ration for Growthy Youngsters—Forcing Late Hatched Chicks for Show—Analysis of Food In Common Use by Poultrymen. By Robert H. Essex. HICKENS need a far narrower ration than do ma- tured fowls—a ration containing considerable ani- mal food, and this is one of the points I
. The chick book, from the breeding pen through the shell to maturity : contains the experience of the world's leading poultrymen ... Poultry. FEEDING CHICKENS BALANCED RATIONS. From Hatching Time to Maturity—Suitable Foods and Quantities for the Different Periods of Growth—Feeding the Newly Hatched Chick—Balancing the Rations—Ration for Growthy Youngsters—Forcing Late Hatched Chicks for Show—Analysis of Food In Common Use by Poultrymen. By Robert H. Essex. HICKENS need a far narrower ration than do ma- tured fowls—a ration containing considerable ani- mal food, and this is one of the points I wish to impress upon readers. Experience has caused me to realize its importance. In the early days of Buff Ply- mouth Rocks, their combs were too large, and knowing that meat, even in small quantities, tended to increase the size of the combs, I avoided its use as much as possible. By this course the size of the combs was governed to a certain extent, but what a difference was visible in the growth of the young birds which were supplied with animal food and those which were deprived of it. We all like to experiment, and it took me a few years to find out that not only do chicks need animal food, but they need it in liberal quantities. It has long been demonstrated that some meat is necessary, but in the case of young chicks it is not generally fed in sufficient quantities. Feeding the Newly Hatched Chicks. Study nature. Wild birds in feeding their young have preferences, even in the selection of vegetable foods. Some prefer weed seeds, others the young buds of trees; many are partial to fruit and other vegetables, but a very large ma- jority gather in the flies, bugs, beetles and worms that ven- ture within their range, and upon these the young warblers thrive, grow fat and feathers, and are in a very short time in show condition. Have you ever noticed the quills on the nestlings'? How fast they grow. Seldom do we see a chick feather so fast. The food that produ
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