SUCCESSFUL CHICK GROWING 



A. 34. Just as soon as the males interfere with the 

 females. 



A. ■ 35. Not if they house peaceably. 



A. ■ 37. Cracked corn, wheat, barley and beef scraps. 



A. C. HAWKINS, Lancaster, Mass. 



' BREEDER OF WHITE, BUFF AND BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 

 . SILVER. BUFF AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 33. I have about 40 in each colony coop and give all 

 unlimited range. 



A. 34. At five to six months. 



35. I run cockerels in flocks of 50 to 75 with good 

 Exhibition specimens should be kept each in a separate 



A. 

 success, 

 pen. 



A. 37. A mash for first morning feed and a mixed grain 

 always before them. Free range. The mixture is cracked corUj 

 wheat and oats, charcoal and coarse sand or grit always before 

 them. 



A. 38. The mash in long troughs, giving plenty of room 

 without crowding. The mixed grain in hoppers protected from 



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



BREEDERS OF WHITE WYANDOTTES. SINGLE-COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 

 AND MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCKS 



A. 33. Put 75 to 100 together; take out cockerels and 

 leave the pullets. 



A. 34. As soon as they are fit to sell for broilers or to 

 crate-fatten. 



A. 35. Keep pullets and cockerels separate if possible. 



A. 36. Cockerels which we keep to breed we house in 

 colony houses on as large a range as possible. 



A. 37. Grain three times a day, mash once a day. Al- 

 ternate wheat, corn and oats. 



J. H. JACKSON, Hudson, Mass. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 33. Young stock have free range, do not crowd. 

 Feed plenty and often. 



A. 34. Not until cockerels get sexual vigor. When 

 raised for breeders like to give them free range for growth. 

 Culls penned up and go to market as soon as possible. 



J. C. FISHEL & SON, Hope, Ind. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALISTS 



A. 33. About 40 or 50. 

 A. 34. When about four months old. 

 A. 35. Yes, about five months old. 



A. 37. Soaked food such as oats, wheat and a little 

 cracked com, but mostly oats and wheat. 



A. 38. Hopper feed them with meat scraps added. 



U. R. FISHEL, Hope, Ind. 



WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK SPECIALIST 



A. 33. We do not yard growing stock; give them free 

 range. 



A. 34. Nine months. 



A. 35. No. 



A. 38. Make them work for all the food except mash. 

 Feed twice a day. 



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



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 33. Generally put out about 75 chicks about six weeks 

 old in the 6 by 6 colony house. A small yard of netting is put 

 around each house for a week, houses 5 or 6 rods apart, then 

 this is taken away and as many as 800 or 1000 run on same range. 



A. 34. When about twelve to fourteen weeks old. 



A. 35. I have four pens in separate cockerel house and 

 the cockerels are divided in those pens according to size as tkey 

 are separated from the range, being careful about this to prevent 

 as far as possible their fighting. If one shows fear in the pen 

 he is put in a separate coop or with females for a short time to 

 get him on his feet again. 



A. 37. In colony houses put dish of grit and charcoal, 

 also a hopper containing dry mash and^another containing a 

 mixture of cracked corn and wheat; about three parts com to 

 two parts wheat. Pill these every morning, and aim to have 

 just a little left in them the following morning. Clean earth- 

 enware water founts put in as cool a place as possible and large 

 enough so they also will have some left on next morning. 



THOMAS F. RIGG, Iowa Falls, Iowa 



HOUDANS AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 33. About 25. Each colony house has yard 132 by 

 132 feet in clover and fruit trees. 



A. 34. Not until cockerels begin to get troublesome. 



A. 35. Yes. 



A. 36. Cockerels for sale as breeders and exhibition stock 

 are placed in a grass run removed from the other stock. In the 

 fall they are placed in the cockerel house, each one having a 

 pen 3 by 6 feet. 



A. 37. Same as I feed chicks. 



A. 38. The mixture of grains as for chicks, kept con- 

 stantly before stock in self-feeding hoppers. Mash fed at noon 

 daily. 



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. 33. From 40 to 60. 



A. 34. We let them run together until October when the 

 pullets are put in the breeding yards. 



A. 35. Yes, we put about 20 in one flock as near one age 

 as possible. We never put small males with large ones, they 

 continue small. 



A. 37. Dry mash same as we give the hens and cracked 

 corn at noon. 



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