46 CHICKS 



' rhoea. Feed little and often and keep their appetites sharp. 

 Keep them hungry; but judgment and practical experience 

 will tell you how to keep them almost satisfied and still a 

 little hungry. They should have access to green material 



■ at all times. At night their appetites should be completely 

 satisfied and plenty of feed should therefore be given them. 

 As they grow older they should be fed a less number 

 of times daily and more at a time. The chopped eggs and 

 rolled oats may be fed twice daily until they are three 

 weeks old and then be displaced by a mixture of bran, mid- 

 dlings, cornmeal, and meat scraps. This can be fed either 

 dry or moist. They grow faster on the moist mash but are 

 more liable to sickness. To make good breeding stock the 

 chickens should never be forced at all as they do not then 

 develop for the best results; one part is developed at the 

 expense of another and that makes them of less value for 

 breeding. 



Care of the Growing Chicks. 

 When the chicks are between five and six weeks old 



/ whole grains can be substituted for the cracked grains and 

 their use will cut down the expense. For best results the 

 growing chicks should be fed sparingly in the morning, 

 have either a dry or moist mash at noon and be fed all 

 they will eat at night. The best green foods tb be used 

 are lettuce and cabbage and should be fed liberally. After 

 the young ones are four weeks old meat meal should be 

 before them at all times until meat scraps are substituted. 

 They should be given free range as soon as possible as it 

 promotes growth and health at a less expense than on re- 

 stricted range. Feeding the chicks on dry feeds while 



'.^ young will lessen the mortality. They will not grow so 



;fast but you will raise a larger per cent of >-our flock to 

 '>^aturity. 



Separate the Sexes. 



As soon as the sexes can be distinguished they should 

 be separated and those of each sex kept by themselves. 

 The surplus cockerels should be finished off for market and 

 the pullets gradually fed to mature in time for winter lay- 

 ing, but not forced in any way, as that causes weakness in 

 constitution and poor fertility in the eggs in hatching sea- 



