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POULTRY APPLIANCES AND HANDICRAFT 



"In regard to feed for chicks, which, of course, 

 applies to chicks with the hen as well as those in the 

 brooder, we give them the first day or two, when they 

 are old enough to eat, cooked eggs chopped fine. Get 

 the hen well filled with corn or some soft feed before 

 feeding the egg to the chicks, otherwise the hungry 

 hen will gobble it up. After this give them some 

 baked Indian meal and flour bread mixed, chopped 

 fine, and milk to drink. 



"After the first week give them ground oats, 

 cracked oats, cracked wheat and sifted cracked corn, 

 boiled broken rice and white flour bread or graham 

 bread. Milk if vou have it, if not, water for the 



FIG 79 : DIAGRAM OF BROODER WITH DRUM 



biooder chicks. GiA'C them meat scrap which con- 

 tains ground bone, and also cut fresh bone. You can 

 perhaps keep a small chick alive on cracked corn 

 alone, the same as half the farmers do, but that is not 

 what the man or woman wants who is raising chicks 

 for profit and who desires to get three pound per pair 

 chicks in ten, or, at the farthest, twelve weeks, and to 

 do this you must work them for all they are worth. 

 But do not feed on cracked corn alone. I assure you 

 they get tired of it, the same as we would upon a diet 

 of bread alone. Let them have free access to coarse 

 sand or any kind of grit. Don't leave anv holes open 

 at night in your houses for rats to crawl through." 



