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METHOD OF FEEDING. 



After the chick has remained in the incubator for at least forty- 

 two to forty-eight hours, it is then removed to the brooder, where a 

 temperature of one hundred degrees or thereabouts is sustained for 

 the first few days, after which it is lowered gradually. 



The first meal consists of a mixture of the following : One loaf of 

 stale (bakers) bread, four to six (infertile) eggs, one pound chick- 

 size grit. Crumble up the bread or run through meat chopper, add the 

 eggs, which have been chopped up shell and all, and then the grit, 

 mix thoroughly. Feed only what the chicks will eat up clean at one 

 time. For second meal feed a grain mixture (will give ingredients 

 later) and the third meal again the same as the first, and so on until 

 you have the bread mixture used up; this is based on a hundred 

 chicks. 



Now that the first mixture is used up and the chicks have gotten 

 used to the grain, it being fed every other meal, remove the pan on 

 which the first meals were fed and feed three or four times a day in 

 a deep litter of alfalfa or clover, which had been spread on the floor 

 from the first. This usually starts at the end of the second or begin- 

 ning of the third day, and by this method of exercising, the chick 

 promotes health and vigor, which is so essential to attain success. 



In addition to the mucn needed exercise, there are other essen- 

 tials : Grit to grind the food, ash in the form of bone to build up the 

 frame work ; charcoal as a blood purifier or to ward off disease, green 

 food to give a variety and sharpen the appetite. Ifeep clean water 

 before them 'at all times and get out on the ground as soon as it is 

 found to be safe, that is, if the weather allows and chicks are old 

 enough. 



The grain fed is made up as follows: 



First f 1 part pinhead oats or (steel cut). 

 3 or 4J 1 part fine cracked Kaffir corn. \- By weight, 



weeks. I 1 part fine cracked dent corn. 

 [ 3 parts fie cracked wheat. 



From this change the size of grain, leaving proportions the same, 

 as follows : 



Steel cut oats to hulled oats. 



Fine cracked corn to whole Kaffir corn. 



Fine cracked dent corn to coarse cracked. 



Wheat, whole. 



After the chicks have reached ten to twelve weeks the ration is 

 changed somewhat ; dropping out Kaffir corn and making it as follows : 



One part oats with hulls on. 



Two parts cracked corn. 



Three parts wheat. 



This remains the same until the chicks reach their winter quar- 

 ters. 



The mash is fed wet beginning with the third week, feeding once 

 a day, that being in the morning. At eight weeks the mash is put in 

 any mash hoppers and only left open one-half the day, that being from 



