Feeding Young Chickens 



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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 half-inch size upright picccs that^slidc loosely 



into guide irons at each end of the trough. It is sometimes necessary 

 to fasten projecting strips of wood along the top edge of the trough. 



