A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



half-boiled, cracked wheat and corn, equal 

 parts. 



These bills of fare can be varied with pot 

 cheese, custard, chopped lettuce or apple, 

 bread crumbs moistened with milk, hard- 

 boiled eggs, but every day they must have 

 meat (more than chicks need), and pepper 

 or mustard seed crushed and fed in soft 

 wood. Keep a small pan of powdered 

 charcoal and sand in the run, and, of course, 

 water in a drinking fountain that will allow 

 only the beak to get wet. 



The first eggs I stole out of old "Coque- 

 lin's" nest (that was the name we gave one 

 of the first guineas we had) I placed under a 

 little bantam hen, and she brought off every 

 one. When she tried to leave them after 

 six weeks, she and I both discovered that 

 to hatch guinea chicks was a much greater 

 responsibility than any ordinary hen ever 

 contemplates. Their mother is their mother, 

 and can be nothing else until the following 

 spring. Then they mate, and mamma is 



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