94 The Truth About the Poultry Business 



are often soft in the center and sometimes having more 

 white on the ends) and use nothing but this grade of whole 

 corn, ground fine, you will avoid the worst pitfall in poultry- 

 feeding. 



When feeding chicks on Ration No. 13 about 5% of meat 

 should be added when the chicks are about two months old. 

 At the age of three weeks mix equal parts of wheat and 

 corn to the chick-feed and at the end of four weeks it will 

 not be necessary to feed any more chick-feed. 



INDIGESTION 



Under this heading most of the bowel-troubles can be 

 classified. It is principally caused by eating improper and 

 unnatural foods. Just what effect exercise has on indiges- 

 tion I do not know, but I do know that no amount of 

 exercise will cure it. Neither will a starvation method do 

 any good. 



When hens are troubled with indigestion and are given 

 a heavy feeding of anything whether it is bran, middlings, 

 meat or green feed or grain, it is noticeable that on the 

 following day more bowel-trouble will be noticed than usual. 

 This seems to prove that over-feeding is the cause of this, 

 yet you can take a large flock of chicks that are fed on a 

 mash that is not properly balanced and which have indiges- 

 tion and bowel-trouble, and by leaving out the mash, feeding 

 them chick-feed of a good grade, little bowel-trouble will 

 be noticed on the day following. This shows that it is largely 

 caused by an unbalanced ration. 



If chick-feed is fed for a long period the chicks may begin 

 to eat dirt on account of something left out of the food, 

 but this is sometimes caused by over-feeding the chick-feed. 



