INCUBATION AND BROODING 



Fig. 103. — Self-feeder for chicks. 



A good grain feed is 

 made by mixing 

 equal parts of cracked 

 wheat, pinhead oat- 

 meal, and finely 

 cracked corn. 



Beginning the third 

 week, the noon feed- 

 ing of the egg mixture 

 is changed to a mash 

 mixture made of ten pounds of bran, eight pounds of corn 

 meal, eight pounds of middlings, two pounds of alfalfa meal, 

 and three pounds of good clean meat scrap. Wheat bran 

 with .10 per cent of meat scrap may be substituted for this 

 mixture. When this mash feed is first given it should be 

 shghtly moistened with warm water or skim milk, gradually 

 reducing the amount of moisture until the chicks have 

 learned to eat the meal mixture dry. It can then be left 

 before them. If skim milk can be had for mixing the mash, 

 the meat may be omitted. As soon as the chicks have 

 learned to eat the dry mash, the milk may be given to 

 them in a drinking vessel. 



Fig. 104. — A mash hopper. 



