. The chick book. Poultry. CARE OF BROODER CHICKS. If Labor Is an Item of Expense, then a Successful Way of Raising Chicks With One-third the Usual Labor Deserves a Fair Trial. By W. fl. Bushell. 0(3 17 now shall we best care for the brooder chicks?" ILJI We leave the chickens ia the incubator twelve â ^ ^ hours after all the chickens are hatched, which gives thfm strength; then we remove them to the brooder thaf Is heated up to ninety degrees under the hover and seventy degrees outside the hover. We leave the chicks alone in the brooder twenty-four hours before feeding or watering them.
. The chick book. Poultry. CARE OF BROODER CHICKS. If Labor Is an Item of Expense, then a Successful Way of Raising Chicks With One-third the Usual Labor Deserves a Fair Trial. By W. fl. Bushell. 0(3 17 now shall we best care for the brooder chicks?" ILJI We leave the chickens ia the incubator twelve â ^ ^ hours after all the chickens are hatched, which gives thfm strength; then we remove them to the brooder thaf Is heated up to ninety degrees under the hover and seventy degrees outside the hover. We leave the chicks alone in the brooder twenty-four hours before feeding or watering them. The floor of the brooder is cov- ered with sand and cut clover, the clover being used to pre- vent the chicks from slipping. When the youngest chick is thirty-six hours old, we feed and water them for the first time, some of the little ones being forty-eight to sixty hours old. We give them prepared chick feed and clean water in a fountain that is made so that the chick can drink, but cannot get into the water or soil it. The chick food consists of all kinds of seeds that grow in the fields, with some grit and beef scraps. We feed three times a day and only what the chicks will eat up clean. We feed it in the cut clover so as to force the chicks to ex- ercise. We do not have any bowel trouble nor sickly chicks; nor do we have tr> run out and feed them every two hours; nor do we keep the cook busy baking johnny cake and all kinds of foolish things and washing dishes; nor do we give milk to drinkâit is too mussy. We simply feed the chick Teed and give clean water three times a day. The work is cut down and we raise the chickens. It is seldom that we find a dead chick in the brooder. We are often asked by visiting poultry people if the chick feed is not expensive. I always reply that it is the cheapest food you can get, because it saves two-thirds of the labor and you can raise the chicks successfully on it. Besides, it is of great help in keeping the brooders clean. I know w
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