. Our domestic birds; . g at a very rapid rate, too;but after the chicks are weaned, they have usually reached the point in growth when theincrease in size in a shortperiod is very poultry keepers commonlyspeak of chickens from wean-ing time until maturity asgrowing chicks. At this timethe rudest kind of shelter willsuit them as well as any. In-deed, they hardly need shelterfrom the weather at all. Themost essential things are agood range, apart from the old fowls, and an abundance of should be able to pick up a great deal of food for them-selves, but should have enough
. Our domestic birds; . g at a very rapid rate, too;but after the chicks are weaned, they have usually reached the point in growth when theincrease in size in a shortperiod is very poultry keepers commonlyspeak of chickens from wean-ing time until maturity asgrowing chicks. At this timethe rudest kind of shelter willsuit them as well as any. In-deed, they hardly need shelterfrom the weather at all. Themost essential things are agood range, apart from the old fowls, and an abundance of should be able to pick up a great deal of food for them-selves, but should have enough given them to make sure thatthey always have allthe food they caneat. It does notpay to stint themto make them for-age farther. Youngchickens will alwaystake all the exercisethat they need ifthey have the op-portunity, and themore they eat thebetter they grow. When the range near their coops ceases to afford them goodpicking, the coops should be moved to a place where the foodto be secured by foraging is more Fig. 97. Small house for growing chicks, in orchardin New York State IOO OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS Large Stocks on General Farms When farmers in America began to keep larger stocks offowls, the most common practice nearly everywhere was to in-crease the general flock until there were far too many fowls onthe land that they would usually forage over. Under such con-ditions fowls on the farm were not profitable. They damagedevery crop to which they had access, and made the farm mostunsightly in the vicinity of the dwelling house. Then somefarmers would reduce the flock and return to the old practice of keeping only a few dozen hens,
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