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luthatched after that time, those that are bom may be fed 

 with bread soaked in milk, and the yolk of hard-boiled egg. 



When the whole brood is hatched it should be placed along 

 with the mother, tinder a coop, ia a warm, dry spot. If yon 

 happen to have two hens at brood at the same time, be sure and 

 keep the respective chicks separate, as if they get mixed the hens 

 win probably maim or destroy those that do not belong to them. 



After being kept snug beneath the coop for a week, the 

 chicks may be turned loose for an hour or so in the warmest 

 part of the day. They must be gradually weaned from the 

 soaked bread and chopped egg, and boiled barley or groats 

 given instead, and ia eight or ten days their stomachs will be 

 strong enough to receive bruised barley, and at the end of 

 three weeks, if your chicks be healthy, they wiU be able to take 

 care of themselves. It will be well, however, to keep your eye 

 on them a week or so longer as the elder chicks may drivs 

 them from their food. 



Grreat care should be taken that the very young chicks be 

 prevented from running about the wet ground, or on damp 

 grass. BecoUect that this is &e most prominent and fatal 

 cause of disease. I should have mentioned, that while under 

 the coop with their mother, they should be provided with a 

 shallow pan or platei of water, as they are very liable to drench 

 tliemselves and to take cold, if provided with no other drinking 

 vessel than the one proper for the parent bird. 



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