CARE OF THE GROWING CHICKS. 



Four WelUKnown, Successful Breeders of Standard=Brecl 



Fowls Tell Briefly How They House, Feed and Care for 



the Chicks to Secure the Fastest and Best Growth 



and Development During the Summer Months. 



Oats is One of the Best Feeds for Growing Chicks. 

 By C. M. Renne. 



Summer is the season of the year when all the fanciers and 

 poultrymen are interested in the methods which will promote 

 the best growth in the chicks. Having been unusually 

 fortunate in rearing the chicks placed in brooders, I have 

 been tempted to write on how I feed and care for my White 

 Plymouth Rocks. 



My chicks are hatched in incubators and reared in out- 

 door brooders. They remain in the brooders until they are 

 nearly or quite feathered out, say six or seven weeks, witk 

 a larger run as they get older. Then they are removed to 

 colony coops made of dry goods boxes. I do not place 

 more than twenty-five in each coop and put them out near 

 a com field or meadow where they have free range and find- 

 all the bugs and grasshoppers they can eat. When they 

 are five or six weeks old I begin feeding whole wheat, cracked 

 com, and oats. Oats I find to be one of the best feeds for 

 growing chicks, in fact I feed them the year around to my 

 whole flock and have always had very satisfactory results. 

 Let me urge the reader never to try to save by buying tainted 

 or poor chicken feed, especially for young chicks, as it is 

 sure road to disaster. I also keep sour milk before my chicks 

 at all times and you can find nothing that will promote a 

 faster or better growth. They may remain in the colony 

 coops until cold weather when I place them in their winter 

 quarters. 



Be sure that everything is kept scrupulously clean, drink- 



