APPENDIX. 



Feeding Young Chicks— Feeding and Caring for Young 

 Turkeys — Feeding for Eggs — How to Hasten Molting 

 — How to Break up a Broody Hen The Number of 

 Hens that Should be Mated with One Male — Time 

 Required in Mating to Insure Pure and Fertile Eggs — 

 — Things to be Remembered. 



FEEDING YOUNG CHICKS. 



THE first week or ten days is perhaps the most 

 critical time of a chick's Hfe because of the dan- 

 ger of digestive disorder. 



Almost every poultry-raiser has his own method of 

 feeding, and many are good, I shall attempt to give 

 only a few. In my own experience I have had excel- 

 lent results from feeding dry feed only, beginning 

 when the chicks are twenty-four hours old, (as they 

 should never be fed before twenty-four hours) by giv- 

 ing rolled oats and fine dried bread crumbs about every 

 four hours; plenty of fine sand should be kept before 

 them from the start. To this ration may be added, 

 in a few days, fine cracked wheat screenings or ready 

 mixed chick feeds, of which there are many different 

 brands in the market, A little later, cracked corn is 

 hIso given. 



