FEEDS AND FEEDING 



least three days should be made and hung on 

 the wall of each pen and filled with the above 

 mixture. There should also be supplied a 

 smaller hopper filled with ground oyster shells, 

 grit, and coarsely ground charcoal. In the 

 early morning each pen of twenty-five birds 

 should be fed one quart of screened whole corn 

 scattered on the litter, and this litter should be 

 at least 6 or 7 inches deep on the floor. At 

 ten o'clock, one quart of half-and-half oats and 

 wheat is fed; and that is all that is given during 

 the day, as the fowls feed themselves from the 

 hopper. In winter 16 ounces of clover hay cut 

 into half-inch lengths is added to each pen of 

 twenty-five (fed in slatted boxes). 



For little chicks nothing better than " chick- 

 feed," composed of finely broken grain seeds, 

 has been discovered. This in addition to plenty 

 of pure water, ground charcoal, and grit will 

 be all that is necessary. The feed should be 

 scattered in a litter of chopped straw or hay, in 

 small quantities (a handful for 50 chicks), 

 about five times a day for the first three or four 

 weeks and then three times will be enough. 

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