BROODING THE CHICKS 76 
After two or three days of using baby feeds of 
the kinds mentioned, it is customary to change to 
regular chick grain. As a matter of fact, the com- 
mercial chick foods, which are altogether the best 
for the amateur to use, may be fed from the very 
first. After a few weeks he can change to cracked 
wheat, cracked corn and Kaffir corn if he desires, 
or he may keep right on with the commercial chick 
feeds, which are a combination of many grains, in- 
cluding kinds which the chicks like particularly well 
and which they will work hard to get. If a soft 
feed which is likely to sour is used at first, feeding 
time should come four or five times a day, but if oat 
meal or the regular chick feeds are depended upon, 
three times a day is often enough from the first, 
when the chicks are with a hen. There may be 
grain in the litter all the time, but no harm will be 
done, for the chicks will be guided by the hen to a 
large extent in the matter of eating and she seems 
to have a proper instinct about these matters. If 
there is too much food in sight, she probably will 
cover it up. 
After the tenth day a hopper of ground feed and 
beef scraps may well be kept within reach of the 
chicks at all times. They will eat a lot of it and 
