30 CHICKS 



prove sufficient for a flock of forty to fifty chicks until they 

 are six weeks old. 



Green Grass an Advantage. 

 Chicks should always have a grass run because the grass 

 is needed to furnish green food for the chicks and because t'he 

 roots in the sod absorb many of the impurities and tend to 

 keep the runway from becoming foul. Frequent raking 

 and occasional watering in dry seasons will assist in keeping 

 grass in the runs, and such labor is usually paid for with 

 interest by the increased vigor and growth of the chicks. 



Dry Food Fed in Hoppers. 



If each brood has the room we have described, they may 

 be given dry food in hoppers and the labor of feeding is 

 reduced to the minimum. For this purpose, the advertised 

 chick foods are especially adapted. The writer has had suc- 

 cess when feeding these foods in hoppers of different styles, 

 filling the hoppers perhaps twice a weel^ and furnishing 

 fresh water twice a day. With one brood in particular 

 which was placed in a brooder in a colony house, the brooder 

 was attended but twice a day, morning and evening, at 

 which times the water pan was refilled, the lamp attended 

 to and the brooder cleaned. This was in June and when the 

 chicks were four days old, they were allowed to run outside 

 the house in a small yard. The youngsters made excellent 

 growth and the mortality was very low. 



Damp Mashes Occasionally Advisable. 



Less than twenty per cent as much damp mash is fed to 

 chicks at present as was fed five years ago. Still, occasion- 

 ally breeders find it satisfactory, and a few deem it necessary 

 to get the best and fastest growt.h and most uniform devel- 

 opment. A large proportion of these poultrymen do not, 

 however, feed mash until the chicks are weaned by the hen 

 or until they no longer need artificial heat. 



Mashes mixed with milk or water may be fed even when 

 hopper feeding of dry food is practiced and oftentimes 

 will produce better results than can be obtained otherwise. 



The prepared chick foods, composed of small grain 

 and finely cracked larger grains with beef scraps added, 

 although most satisfactory for feeding young chicks, are 



