BROODING AND REARING YOUNG STOCK 



coop and can secure more or less natural feed through 

 their own efforts two or three feeds a day are usually 

 enough. Sloppy feed should never be given to poults. 



There is a great variety of feeds used for young poults, 

 all of which may be successfully employed, the particular 

 success attending the different kinds depending to quite 

 an extent upon the person who is feeding. The follow- 

 ing common feeds used may be mentioned: (i) Hard- 

 boiled egg chopped fine together with corn bread crumbs 

 for the first few days. After this, whole wheat and hulled 

 oats. (2) Stale bread soaked in milk and squeezed dry. 

 This is used for the first few days and is then replaced 

 with common chick feed. (3) Clabbered milk seasoned 

 with salt and pepper together with corn bread crumbs. 

 (4) Equal parts pinhead oats, whole -wheat and cracked 

 corn. (5) Cracked wheat. (6) Corn meal and wheat 

 bran mixed in the proportion of three to one and bakecf 

 into a bread which should be baked fairly hard and fed 

 in a crumbly condition. (7) Bran or middlings one-half, 

 cracked Egyptian corn one-fourth, wheat and hulled oats 

 one- fourth. 



Milk is also a most valuable feed for the poults. Usu- 

 ally skim milk is used for this purpose but whole milk if 

 available can be utilized. The milk is best fed sour as the 

 acid in the sour milk seems to have more or less disease 

 preventive properties. Sour milk can be left before the 

 poults during the morning for a drink, without any water 

 being available, and water given to them during the after- 

 noon. Water or milk should be given to the poults in a 



