DUCK MASH 



20 sacks Bran, 3 sacks Darling's or Crolie's Beef Scraps, 2 

 sacks Cotton Seed Meal, 4 sacks ground Eg3T)tian Corn, and 

 feed with this 50% green Alfalfa. 



FEEDING TURKEYS 



Do not feed until 48 hours old. First feed hard boiled eggs. 

 For one week, corn bread and chopped onions with greens 

 should be fed. Feed at all times from the beginning, cottage 

 cheese mixed with a little red pepper and boiled rice mixed 

 with bran. Let the rice be boiled until dry. The main thing is 

 brooding. Weather permitting, allow them to run outside. 

 Permit them to have access to fine gravel. They should be 

 given baby chick food the same as chickens with rolled oats 

 rubbed in same. The first few weeks and after that, the 

 mixed grains and sour milk should be fed. Peanuts are also a 

 wonderful thing for fattenting turkeys for the market and 

 they also must be supplied with greens the same as the 

 chickens. 



It must be kept in mind that the main thing with baby 

 turkeys is to see that they are kept comfortably warm and 

 like a baby chick, feed them five times a day, always avoid- 

 ing overfeeding. The same diligent care must be applied to 

 the raising of baby turkeys as baby chicks, it being remem- 

 bered that they cannot stand as much as a chick. Let them 

 have free range. 



MASH FOR BABY CHICKS 



Another good baby chick mash may be made of ground 

 milo, fine com, and wheat — equal parts by weight combined 

 with V^ beef scrap, l^ fine bone and 14 fine charcoal. 



THE BROODING OF BABY CHICKS 



In addition to feeding baby chickens, great care must be 

 taken in brooding. They should not be kept too warm— -80 

 to 82° of heat from the beginning is enough. Also avoid 

 sweating. Do not allow them to chill, however, and as the 

 chicks continue to grow, after a few days, gradually cut 

 down the heat. Of course a great deal depends on the cli- 

 mate. Another thing in the care of the baby chicks is toe 

 picking, which may be prevented by using blue calsomine on 

 the brooder house windows, so as to throw a shade on their 



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