. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Feeding Young Chickens 1469. to them. The subsequent feedings should be sufficient to satisfy the appe- tite. Green food should be given at least twice a day. At night the chicks should have all the food they will eat, with just a Httle left over to be eaten by the earliest Hght. They should not be fed in the morning until they are hungry. Small hop
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). Feeding Young Chickens 1469. to them. The subsequent feedings should be sufficient to satisfy the appe- tite. Green food should be given at least twice a day. At night the chicks should have all the food they will eat, with just a Httle left over to be eaten by the earliest Hght. They should not be fed in the morning until they are hungry. Small hoppers or boxes should be used for grit or for charcoal; one style of hopper is illustrated in Fig. 205. These should be placed in the pens at the end of the first week and should be fastened securely so that they can- not tip over, being so . 1 ^ -t-Vi -t- 'f '11 ViP" ^^'^- 2^5-—^'''' hoppers. These hoppers are used in piaceo. tnat it wni oe feeding the mixture of grit, granulated bone, and impossible for the chicks charcoal to chicks more than one week old. Oyster to crowd behind them. '^''"' ''"" '' ^' undesirable for young chickens The trays used for dry ground food are shown in Fig. 206. These trays are made of smoothly planed wood, and are thirty inches long, four inches wide, and of three different heights: two inches for the youngest chickens, three inches for the next size, and four inches for those still larger. A piece of hardware cloth of one half inch mesh is loosely fitted into the tray, being placed over the food in order to prevent waste. When the chicks are six to eight weeks old, a covered feed trough may be used as shown Fig. 206.— Travs used in feeding baby chicks. A in Fig. 207. This trough is loose piece of wire ^^'-'?C"'"f'/j's/'f/,,^'""//,^ made of planed wood, and has than the top of the tray, is placed over tlie Jooa i: ' to prevent waste. The mesh of the screening a raised cover attached to two should be of ha
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