. The chick book. Poultry. Mrs. liurlbuVs Brood Runway Used With Mrs. Hurlbut's Brood Coop. Feeding the Chicks. The first food given the chicks is usually bread and -milk, and for a water dish for small chicks a low tin baking .dish, not more than an inch high, is all right. The food I give after the first day is meal and middlings (equal parts by measure) mixed, with about one tablespoonful of animal meal to one quart of thj food. This is thoroughly scalded and fed cool five times a day for about two weeks. After that I feed the mash three times a day and in the middle of the f o r e-
. The chick book. Poultry. Mrs. liurlbuVs Brood Runway Used With Mrs. Hurlbut's Brood Coop. Feeding the Chicks. The first food given the chicks is usually bread and -milk, and for a water dish for small chicks a low tin baking .dish, not more than an inch high, is all right. The food I give after the first day is meal and middlings (equal parts by measure) mixed, with about one tablespoonful of animal meal to one quart of thj food. This is thoroughly scalded and fed cool five times a day for about two weeks. After that I feed the mash three times a day and in the middle of the f o r e- noon and af- ternoon they are fed hulled oats and wheat screen- ings mixed. I increase the animal meal gradually un- til they are well feathered out. when I feed about one part animal meal to eight parts meal and mid-llings—say eight pints of food and one pint of animal meal, or that proportion. I occasionally feed chopped onions, which they always relish, and give them grit and oyster sihells. I throw it into the runs and let them eat whait they want of it. During the winter, when the hens have picked out the coarse shell and grit, I put the fine grit in a box and keep it to feed to the Chicks in the spring. I keep the chicks in the runs until they are well feath- ered out, moving the runs as fast as they eat down the grass, in hot weather being careful to place them in the shade. I take the hens away from the chicks when they are large enough, and that depends on the weather. In warm weather they will do without the hen younger than when it is colder. Each breeder must use his own judgment, and in fact the keynote of success is good judgment. There are no ironclad rules that fit all conditions. My yards are about fifty by one hundred feet and well shaded. I put the chicks into these yards when they are about ten weeks old. After the chicks eat off the) green stuff in the yards, I feed green food once a day and gradually reduce the regular meals to three times a day. Anythin
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