. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. 232 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS food is given them at regular hours, they will run to it punctually from all sides. Whatever their food is, it should be eaten up immediately, so that nothing be left. It should be a fixed rule never to overfeed them. More chickens die from eating too much than from eating too little. They ought to be taught while young not to gorge themselves ; at the same time, however, they should be fed often. Their drinking water sho
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. 232 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS food is given them at regular hours, they will run to it punctually from all sides. Whatever their food is, it should be eaten up immediately, so that nothing be left. It should be a fixed rule never to overfeed them. More chickens die from eating too much than from eating too little. They ought to be taught while young not to gorge themselves ; at the same time, however, they should be fed often. Their drinking water should be pure and cool, and their coops ought to be cleaned every day. Sand and gravel must be within easy reach While the coops are being cleaned the chicks should be e .\ a m - i n e d to see if they have any vermin. If they have, the cof)ps must be washed out with s o m one of the disinfec ants sold for that purjios If vermin is found on the chicks a few drops of kerosene should be rubbed in under their wings, for many of them perish from lice, while the cause is attributed to other things. Certainly fifty per cent die in this way. In short, if healthy and vigorous chickens are desired, two special ])oints nnist be attended to, namely, feeding (but not overfeeding) at regular hours, and the frequent cleansing of their abodes. VII. IXCLOSURES .AND PoULTRV To establish a fine inclosure space is neces- sary. The first thing to be done is to surround with a wire trellis the whole space devoted t(j this purpose, which again is dix'ided into three or more parts by similar trellises. The first division is the place where the chicks are to be raised ; the second is for the hens whose eggs are taken for the incubator ; the third is for the hens who brood upon their own nests. The division for the chicks should be subdivided into spaces about ten feet wide by seventy-five feet long, in each of which one hundred chicks are allowed to run. When they are six weeks f)ld this space sh
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