CHAPTER XI 



FEEDING AND CARE OF LITTLE CHICKENS 



IN rearing fowls it will be found that the at- 

 tention given to little chickens and the manner 

 of feeding them are of the greatest importance. 

 While it is difficult and probably impossible to 

 satisfactorily discuss care and feeding separately, 

 yet it may safely be said that care and attention 

 are quite as important as the selection of food. 



One successful poultry -feeder may find it to 

 his advantage to make use of certain foods, while 

 these same foods in the hands of others may be 

 so misused that disappointment will surely result. 

 To further illustrate, one successful poultrymari 

 may insist that comparatively little of certain 

 kinds of grains should be fed. Other success- 

 ful feeders may make a most satisfactory use 

 of these objectionable grains. It is for each 

 one to learn for himself how to feed to the best 

 advantage those foods which are at hand, and 

 to learn how to supplement them with others 

 if they do not form the desired combination of 

 themselves. In preparing food for little chick- 

 ens, it will be well to remember that they are 



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