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PBOFITABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION 



During the first week of a chick's life heat is more 

 important than food. Attempting to furnish this 

 heat by excessive feeding to maintain the body 

 temperature from within, we are pretty sure to 

 overload the digestive system, and it seems to be 

 the part of economy to supply the heat by oil or 

 coal rather than by foods given the chicks. 



COMPARE NATURAL METHODS 



If one would have greatest success in the rear- 

 ing of chicks he must study Nature and the methods 

 Nature uses, and apply the lesson 

 thus learned to the work at hand. 

 Watch an old hen steal her nest 

 in some fence corner, bring off a 

 brood and care for it without aid. 

 Earring accident these chicks live 

 and grow well. Study closely 

 how and what they are fed. 

 Chicks should be left in the 

 incubator for 40 hours after the 

 hatch is out. Then they may be 

 put in the brooder and given a 

 little warm water, that they may 

 learn to drink. When three days 

 old they are ready for their first feed. They may 

 have already picked a little sand from the floor of 

 the brooder. 



More chicks are lost from feeding too soon than 

 from most other causes. Nature put into the egg 

 enough of just the right kind of food to keep the 

 chick going till strong enough to get its sustenance 

 without. When we feed too soon we interfere with 

 Nature's plan and pay the penalty in losses later 



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CHICK BLOCK 



Chicks peck soft 

 food piled around 

 handle. 



