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grow older until you feed it only about once a week. 



The simple methods herein outlined can be depended 



• upon to give satisfactory results, provided the chicks are 

 given reasonably good care and are kept comfortably warm. 



ROSE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 

 Part Tof a flock of Rose Comb White Leghorn Chicka. Early April hatched Leghorn chicks will be nearly grown by July and August and 

 appear at three to four months as in the above picture. Many White Leghorn farms supply ten to twelve weeks old chicks to the highest priced 

 trade for choice broilers. — F. L. Sewell, 



FEEDING YOUNG CHICKS 



IT IS MANAGEMENT FROM FIRST TO LAST THAT COUNTS MORE THAN THE PARTICULAR FEED USED 



H. J. BLANGHARD 



SUCCESSFUL feeding of young chicks is not the intricate 

 problem some poultry writers would have us believe. 

 It is wonderful only in its simplicity. Almost any 

 sweet, clean, dry feed given them very sparingly, five or six 

 times daily for the first ten days and then four times until 

 the chicks are six or eight weeks old, is all they require in 

 the way of food. Clean water and sharp grit should be be- 

 fore them from the first, but not very cold water for the first 

 two weeks. We feed nothing the first two days, then give 

 water and a little sharp grit and a very little dry bread 

 crumbs or any good wholesome food. 



Last season we raised some broods of our best chicks 

 on dry ground grains — dry mash — from the first, and they 

 are still eating it. After they were about eight weeks old 

 we began feeding them wheat and cracked corn once a day 

 in connection with the dry mash. 



We fed this dry mash in open troughs, but now that 

 these chicks are well-grown this dry mash is put in self-feed- 

 ing hoppers so arranged that they can be closed at will. 



We believe it is best to close the hoppers at night and 

 in the morning feed a light ration of whole mixed graing 



scattered in litter on the floor. Then water the birds and 

 feed mangel wurzels cut in halves and placed on the floor. 

 About noon another light ration of whole mixed grains is 

 scattered in the litter and the dry mash hoppers thrown 

 open, from which they eat at will until night. 



With our houses well ventilated day and night and 

 therefore dry, our birds are healthy, active and vigorous. 

 In connection with our well known straw loft system of ven- 

 tilation, we now use muslin covered frames that are the 

 same size as the sliding windows, one or two to each room 

 according to its size. At night these muslin covered frames 

 are drawn over the openings in place of the glass windows 

 which slide back out of the way, and on mild nights a .crack 

 is left in the openings also. In the morning the muslin 

 frames are pushed back and the glass windows drawn over 

 the openings to let in the light and sunshine, and unless 

 very cold the windows are left open more or less, according 

 to the weather. 



After all, it is management from first to last that counts 

 more than what particular feed we use, 



