94 EGGS AND POULTRY 
takes some, but perhaps even the disease was 
caused by neglect. 
Usually the first little chickens are a 
novelty and so receive every care and atten- 
tion, but as more come, making more work 
and less novelty, carelessness is likely to 
creep in. Then chicks are lost. It is far 
better policy to hatch 100 chicks and raise 
go than to hatch 200 and through careless- 
ness raise only 100 or so. They go fast 
when they commence to die; so be as careful 
of the last hatch as of the first, and your 
books will look much better than they will 
if you get careless toward the end. 
The feeding of the fifth day is repeated 
daily until the chicks are six weeks old, but 
in addition a little green stuff, such as let- 
tuce or sprouted oats or tender grass is added 
to the diet, sparingly at first. Beef scrap, 
brooder size, is also kept in the hoppers. 
The plan outlined in this book calls for the 
removal of the chicks from the heated 
brooder house to the heated hover colony 
house at three weeks or so, but the change 
must be effected with as little change of tem- 
perature between the houses as possible, the 
colony houses having been previously 
warmed up to the proper temperature. 
