A GUIDE FOR KEEPERS OF POULTRY 147 
rubbed together with about six times their bulk of rolled 
oats, the eggs having been put through an ordinary meat 
chopper. This mixture is fed the first two or three days 
until the chicks have learned to eat. It is fed with chick 
grit on the brooder floor, which is covered with clover 
hay cut short, or clean chaff. Beginning with the third 
day the chicks are fed a mixture of hard, finely-broken 
grains, as soon as they can see to eat in the morning. 
This grain mixture, which we will call mixture No. 1, is 
composed as follows, all parts being by weight: 
Cracked Wheat siccscc cscisnaacewais sawnied venesten wascae 15 parts 
Pinhead oats (granulated oat meal).............. 2.005 10 parts 
Fine-screened cracked com...... 0... ..eee cess ee eee 15 parts 
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Broken: M1CO.s.cr5..h Zozoth daca Sues Wee sas ARR Meee 2 parts 
SHIGE Brit ecg cin Pa htorts ace tenetink detaeuins Wee mmerrane spartans 5 parts 
Fine charcoal (chick size).............200.5 ceeeesees 2 parts 
This is fed on the litter on the floor, care being taken 
to limit the quantity so the chicks will be hungry again 
by 9 o’clock a. m. At 12:30 the grain mixture is fed 
again, as in the morning, and at 4:30 or 5 o’clock they are 
fed all they will eat of the rolled oats and egg mixture. 
If more convenient, almost any of the commercial grain 
mixtures for feeding young chicks may be substituted for 
the mixture described. Where only a small number of 
chicks are being reared the commercial mixtures are 
probably as cheap as the mixture given, and it is often 
more convenient to buy them ready mixed than to buy a 
small quantity of small grains and mix them at home. 
When the chicks are three weeks old the rolled cats 
and egg mixture is gradually displaced by a mixture 
(No. 2) having the following composition: 
Wheat bran, Clean........ ccc e cette eee cece eee 2 parts, by weight 
Cormmmea) -aseapiien saueentiesassanrass 16 ees 4 parts, by weight 
Middlings or “‘red dog” flour......,......... 2 parts, by weight 
Linseed-meal ......6. ccccecccceeee ee tenee nee l part, by weight 
Screened beef SCrap .......ccseeee sere cence 2 parts, by weight 
