Feeding 95 



Chicks grow very much faster if a dry mash is kept before 

 them all the time, providing the ingredients in the mash are 

 right, and the more they eat the faster they grow. 



This method proves far more satisfactory than any other 

 method that can be used, but at other times when a ration 

 like No. 12 or 13 is used it is a failure on account of the 

 chicks getting indigestion. 



With some chicks and flocks of hens I have had they would 

 not be hungry at feeding time and many of them would 

 remain on the roost. They all had indigestion or bowel- 

 trouble and it was very hard to stop it with a ration like 

 No. 12 or 13. In raising chicks I have had the same thing 

 happen. The chicks would be growing very fast on Ration 

 No. 12 or 13 and many similar rations, but on getting another 

 shipment of bran, corn or middlings from the mill, or from 

 some other cause, they would get bowel-trouble or indiges- 

 tion and die ini spite of everything I could do to save them. 

 They would remain on the roost most of the time and 

 occasionally get off to get a little mash. Many of them would 

 not eat chicks-feed or grain. This is often caused by the 

 variation in brans, middlings or by the quality of the corn. 



If you should at any time have a similar experience you 

 can stop these chicks from dying and get them in condition 

 by feeding my system. 



The methods given here for raising baby chicks are used 

 by more successful poultrymen than any other methods, 

 although they do not limit the chick-feed to any certain 

 amount of mash. 



In raising baby chicks, with some grades of feeds Ration 

 No. 12 or 13 can be left before them at all times and if four 

 parts of mash is given to one of chick-feed they will grow 

 very fast without meat. With many grades of corn and mill- 



