HATCHING AND REARING 



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By putting them under the hover at night you can control 

 them the first twelve hours. The hover floor has a movable 

 burlap cover, sprinkled with baby chick grit. . Their first 

 "day is spent making acquaintance with the warmed drink- 

 ing water and gatheririg in a supply of grit. 



Feed Every Three Hours. 



When they are three days old we begin to feed stale 

 bread crumbs soaked in skim milk and squeezed dry. This 

 is scattered on a shingle. ■ We remove hover top and feed 



Photograph lUustrating Exterior of the Brooder .House Owned and 

 Operated by M. L. Spink. 



every three hours allowing about ten minutes for meals. 

 A bojc of charcoal and chick grit is also placed within reach. 

 The fifth day we furnish only wheat flour moistened with 

 water and made crumbly dry. A piece of sulphate of 

 iron the size of a bean is put in the drinking water. This 

 arrests any tendency to bowel trouble which usually appears 

 from the fifth to the seventh day. The next day we return 

 to the bread, morning and noon, and use chick feed in litter 

 for the other meals. At night oatmeal flakes or cracked 

 com is fed in troughs made of lath. 



At this time they are using the exercise room of the 

 ' brooder, the floor of which is covered with dry sand and 



