264 FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



the brooder floor. If eggs are not available, beef 

 scrap may be substituted and a ration consisting of 

 the following given : Rolled oats, bran, corn meal, lin- 

 seed meal, two parts each, and beef scrap, one part. 

 After three days the following mixture is substituted : 

 Cracked wheat, 15 parts ; pin head oatmeal, 10 parts ; 

 cracked corn, 15 parts; cracked peas, three parts; 

 broken rice, two parts; chicken grit, five parts; fine 

 charcoal, two parts. No wet mash is given these 

 chicks until three weeks old. After that age they 

 are given wheat grain, two parts ; corn meal, four 

 parts ; middlings, two parts ; linseed meal, one part ; 

 beef scrap two parts. This mixture is slightly mois- 

 tened with water and fed in troughs. 



When chicks are five or six weeks old cracked 

 grain may be omitted and wheat and fine cracked 

 corn scattered in the litter. 



Feeding Larger Chicks. After chicks are five or 

 six weeks old, the period of greatest danger is past, 

 so far as the feed is concerned. They may now be fed 

 less frequently and a greater variety of food may 

 be given. A good mash is provided in ground corn, 

 oats and bran, with a little salt. This should be fed 

 once a day. Twice a week meat scraps or blood meal 

 should be introduced into this mash. A small 

 amount of bone meal or bone dust will not be out of 

 place if fed daily. 



Animal protein and bone material are both fre- 

 quently denied on the farm ; but this is due more to 

 a lack of these materials as feed and knowledge 

 of their need than either to carelessness or deliber- 

 ate refusal. As the requirements of poultry feed- 



