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A large proportion of the losses in raising 

 Feeding the Chick- chickens is due to improper feeding. At the 

 ens. very outset, many make the mistake of remov- 



ing the chickens from the incubator and begin- 

 ning feeding too early. The chickens should remain in the incubator 

 forty-eight hours after hatching. They do not need, nor are they 

 ready to digest food earlier. Many methods of feeding are followed 

 with success. If we investigate, we shall find that all these are alike 

 in the following particulars. The chicks are fed with regularity and 

 the greatest care is taken especially for the first three or four weeks 

 never to overfeed. The chickens should never be allowed to gorge 

 themselves. They should be fed frequently in relatively small 

 amounts and whenever it is found that they are not hungry at 

 meal time it should be recognized that the preceding meal was 

 too heavy. If in any case food is given in excess of such 

 an amount as will be fully consumed within from 15 to 20 minutes, 

 whatever is left should be removed. If this is not done, the chickens 

 get out of condition, lose their appetites, contract diarrhoea and die 

 in large numbers. They should have access at all times to pure 

 water, artificial grit of suitable size and, I believe, also to fine shells 

 and charcoal. They should be kept also under conditions allowing 

 plenty of opportunity for exercise and it is best to force or encour- 

 age such exercise by scattering part of their dry grain in light dry 

 and not over coarse litter, such, for example as cut clover rowen. 



The writer has had excellent success in raising 

 The Writer's chickens by the following method of feeding. lu- 

 Methodof Feeding, fertile eggs which have been boiled some 15 or 

 20 minutes are put through a meat grinder, shells 

 included, in connection with stale bread in the proportion of one 

 part of the egg to four to six parts of the bread. If not well mixed 

 in the grinding, the bread crumbs and ground egg should be more 

 thoroughly mixed by rubbing together. This should make a slightly 

 moist and rather crumbly mass. This is the first feed and is used 

 about three times daily, at first alternating with rolled oats. This 

 feed is used for about two or three weeks, but the proportion is grad- 

 ually reduced until at the end of the three weeks it is withdrawn al- 

 together. After about three or four days a little hard cracked or 

 broken grain is given. For this purpose both fine cracked corn and 

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