. The chick book. Poultry. 62 THE CHICK BOOK rain from blowing in. In the front there is a door twelve inches wide. There is a bottom made by nailing boards to- gether on two cleats, made so that the coop will slip down over the floor onto the ground. This prevents the rain from blowing under and wetting the floor. The cleats keep the bottom from resting flat on the ground. The coop should be given two coats of paint. This kind of a roosting place is very easily cleaned or whitewashed by lifting it off the floor. When the ground is dry and warm the floor is not necessary, simply move the coop
. The chick book. Poultry. 62 THE CHICK BOOK rain from blowing in. In the front there is a door twelve inches wide. There is a bottom made by nailing boards to- gether on two cleats, made so that the coop will slip down over the floor onto the ground. This prevents the rain from blowing under and wetting the floor. The cleats keep the bottom from resting flat on the ground. The coop should be given two coats of paint. This kind of a roosting place is very easily cleaned or whitewashed by lifting it off the floor. When the ground is dry and warm the floor is not necessary, simply move the coop to a now spot when it begins to get foul. Twenty-five or thirty chicks can, without being crowded, roost in a place of this kind until they are three or four months old. When the chicks are raised in a brooder I prefer a roosting coop large enough to accommodate fifty. This number is as many as should be put in one flock until three or four months old. I then move them to a large roosting house, where they continue to roost on a floor until five or six months old. Sometimes I put as many as one hundred in a place of this kind. From here they go to their permanent roosting place, which is on perches made of two-by-four- inch scantling, with the top rounded a little. Whatever kind of place chicks have to roost In, it should be kept clean and free from mites. Unless you do this you will surely fail. I have no mechanical arrangement or fixed method for feeding chicks. I always feed what I think the time and occasion demand. I believe that as much depends on the way food is prepared and manner of feeding, as on the ma- terial. For the morning meal I usually give a light feed of cornbread baked just the same as for table use, or a mash composed of bran and middlings. They will still be a little hungry, and will start out hunting what they can find to pick up. Along toward noon I scatter wheat among the leaves and litter in a large part of their range. This gives them something to do
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