SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



A. 31. Prepared chick food. 



A. 32. We feed chicks first week about every two hours, 

 feeding in cut straw, making chicks work for the feed. 



A. 31. We have tried everything, chick manna being the 

 best for first ten days; ako give the grain chick food in litter. 

 A. 32. Five times a day at first. 



THOMAS F. RIGG, Iowa Falls, Iowa 



BREEDER OF HOUDANS AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 29. Practically all chicks are hatched in incubator 

 and raised in brooders. 



A. 30. Not more than 25 chicks. I adhere to this firmly. 



A. 31. Chick food and mash. Begin feeding mash when 

 chicks are a week old. Scald it with boiling water. 



A. 32. A mash and a mixture of com, wheat, barley, 

 oats, millet and buckwheat, all cracked. 



W. R. CURTISS & CO., Ransomville, N. Y. 



BREEDERS OF WHITE WYANDOTTES. SINGLE-COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 

 AND MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKS 



A. 29. Our average hatch for eight months is about 70 

 per cent. We hatch 90 per cent of our chicks with incubators. 

 A. 30. Fifty, not over 75. 

 A. 31. Mixed grains cracked fine. 

 A. 32 Keep food in litter before them all the time. 



J. H. JACKSON, Hudson, Mass. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 30. Not over 50 in the largest brooder; 25 or 30 in 

 smaller brooders. 



A. 31. Only chick food up to about six or eight weeks 

 old, then sometimes a Httle mash with some scraps in it about 

 four times a week for a change, also wheat and plenty of cracked 

 com, grit, also plenty of fresh clean water. 



W. B. CANDEE, De Witt, N. Y. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 29. All hatched in machines. 



A. 30. About 50. 



A. 31. Use a dry feed in hoppers from the start, small 

 dish each containing fine grit and charcoal from the start placed 

 in brooder, fresh water in porcelain fount every day; this is 

 washed thoroughly and in weather at all cold this water is 

 warmed. Never let the founts get entirely empty. When about 

 two weeks old begin to give a httle beef scrap or good lean meat 

 cooked, also something in the line of green stuff; have used 

 cabbage, beets, green oats, and lettuce. 



A. 32. Treat as in 31 until four or five weeks old, then 

 give dry mash before them all the time and get them from the 

 fine chick food on to fine cracked com and wheat, and get them 

 to three feeds a day as soon as they go to the colony house, 

 which is when about six weeks of age. 



ROWLAND G. BUFFINTON, Somerset, Mass. 



BREEDER OF BUFF, SILVER PENCILED AND COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTES; 

 BUFF AND PARTRIDGE PLYMOUTH ROCKS; BUFF ORPING- 

 TONS; RHODE ISLAND REDS; BUFF, BLACK, WHITE 

 AND PARTRIDGE COCHIN BANTAMS 



A. 29. We hatch all chicks with incubators. 

 A. 30. From 50 to 100 chicks. 



ALBERT F. DIKEMAN, So. Peabody, Mass. 



BREEDER OF WHITE WYANDOTTES AND WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 29. All chicks hatched by machine. The average 

 year in and year out is one chick for every two eggs incubated. 



A. 30. Fifty is the Umit and we consider 40 better if 

 they are to stay in brooder over four weeks. 



A. 31. Chick food (dry), fine grit, charcoal, and good 

 beef scrap before them at all tiioQes. Also pure fresh water and 

 keep fountains clean. 



A. 32. Sand (on floor) 2 inches deep, out alfalfa on top 

 of this 3 inches deep; in this chick food enough to be always 

 found by scratching for it. 



I. K. FELCH, Natick, Mass. 



BREEDER OF tIGHT BRAHMAS, WHITE WYANDOTTES. BARRED 

 AND WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS 



A. 30. I would not keep over 25 chicks in one coop or 

 brodder if I wanted nice chicks. 



A. 32. Feed chicks four times a day imtil weaned, then 

 keep food before them all the time when on dry grains, giving 

 as much morning mash as they will eat up clean. They should 

 have their liberty to secure grass and insect life. 



G. W. BROWN, Camden, Arkansas 



BREEDER OF WHITE WYANDOTTES, BARRED ROCKS, INDIAN GAMES, 



BUFF COCHINS, LIGHT BRAHMAS, LEGHORNS, PIT GAMES, 



WILD AND BRONZE TURKEYS 



A. 29. Two-thirds of our chicks are hatched artificially, 

 as we use many incubators. 



A. 30. We place in the brooders just half the number of 

 chicks as they claim for the brooder, in a 100-size brooder we 

 place only 50 chicks, finding that we get far better results by 

 giving them the extra room. 



A. 31. We use the prepared chick food. 



A. 32. We' feed the young chicks the prepared chick food 

 five to six times daily, all they will clean'up, reducing the number 

 of times as they grow older. 



B. S. HUME, French Village, 111. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 29. I figure on about 25 per cent infertile and about 

 25 per cent dying in the shell by artificial incubation, and in 

 the natural way only 25 per cent all told. 



A. 30. I never crowd my chicks. In a 100 chick size 

 brooder 50 is plenty, they grow much faster and do much better 

 every way. 



A. 31. Prepared chick food. 



A. 32. At first feed them on clean floor five or six times 

 a day and as they grow older not so often. 



N. V. FOGG, Mt. Sterling, Ky. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 29. For hatching I use the very best incubators. 

 Am using several of the 250-egg and 390-egg size. From 93 



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