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on hard-boiled eggs, finely chopped, shell included, and bread ciumbs 

 — about 4 parts by weight of bread to one of eggs. This is fed dry. 

 After the first two days we begin to give an occasional feed of seed 

 chick -food, which is made as follows : 



Cracked wheat 25 parts. 



Granulated oat meal 15 " 



Millett seed 12 " 



Small cracked corn 10 " 



Small cracked peas 6 " 



Broken rice 2 " 



Rape seed 1 " 



Orit (chicken size) 10 " 



Tlii.s can be used lor the first feed and continued through the 

 first 8 to 10 weeks with good results. We aim to feed the chicks fi\ e 

 times a day. Generally after the tirst few days, there are three feeds 

 a day of this chick-food, one of bread and milk (the bread being 

 squeezed dry and crumbled), and one of whole wheat, or a mash made 

 of (qual paits of bran, shorts and corn meal, to which has been added 

 10 per cent, of animal meal or blood meal. If we can secure fresh 

 liver and get it boiled, this is generally given twice a week, and the 

 animal meal is than omitted from the mash. If the chicks cannot 

 get out to run about, the seed chick-food may be scattered in the 

 chaff, and the little chicks will work away most of the day for it. 

 This gives them exercise, which is a necessity in rearing chicks. If 

 there is no green food to reach, it must be supplied. Lettuce is excel- 

 lent. Sprouted grains are very good, as is also root sprout, cabbage, 

 rape, etc. 



When the chicks get to be about 8 weeks of age, we usually feed 

 about three times a day — the mash food in the morning and whole 

 wheat and cracked corn at noon and nisfht. If we are anxious to 



Fi<;. 11. Coop A.— Each side of roof 24 in. by 30 in.; bottom, 2 ft. 4 in. 



force the chicks, we give two feeds of mash and increase the animal 

 meal a little. 



