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buttermilk, this takes the place of meat scraps and is a splendid 

 thing to give hens or chickens of any age. You should also 

 mix in a little gumption in the feed bucket. Don't let the 

 drinking pan go dry. 



4. Good care means a little more gumption, a little com- 

 mon sense. 



FIRST FEED FOR BABY CHICKS. 



It might be well for us to mention a very good feed formula 

 for baby chickens. We sprinkle a little clover chaff over the 

 floor of the brooder or hover before the chicks are placed in it. 

 We also sprinkle a little fine, grit in the chaff and provide a 

 small fountain of pure water. The chicks are not fed for forty- 

 eight or more hours after they are hatched. Don't feed too 

 soon. The first feed is usually a little commercial chick feed 



Ready for their first feed. 



sprinkled in the litter or perhaps placed on a clear spot on the 

 floor until the chicks learn to scratch for their feed. We feed 

 the chick food at morning, noon and night. Between regular 

 meals we feed a little rolled oats and bran. When the chicks 

 are a week or ten days old we then place a dry mash before 

 them composed of two parts bran, one part shorts, one part 

 corn meal, one-half part ground oats. 



It is also a good idea to mix a little fine charcoal and a little 

 bone meal in this ground feed. We give our young chicks all 

 the sour milk or buttermilk they want from the time they are 

 hatched until fully matured. If you chop up a few onions 

 occasionally for the youngsters, it is a splendid food for them. 

 You may also feed the infertile incubated eggs to them after 

 they are boiled and mixed with some of the dry mash. 



