Bantams Birds 
are concerned, yet the home table may thus be pro- 
vided with small and excellent eggs. The females of 
most breeds of Bantams are good sitters and rear 
their chicks well, and are often used for hatching 
pheasants’ eggs. 
HOUSE 
The coop should be made with a tight floor. Many 
cover the floor to a depth of several inches with sand 
and scatter over this a layer of chaff, cut hay, or any 
kind of drylitter. The coop should be well ventilated, 
with windows covered with muslin sheeting. If it 
is impossible to allow the fowls to run about freely, 
they should have a run enclosed in chicken wire. 
They should have plenty of fresh air, and their 
quarters be kept extremely clean. 
FOOD 
Chopped hard boiled egg and bread-crumbs or 
table-scraps minced fine make an excellent meal for 
Bantam chicks, later give small rations as advised 
for chickens. Cracked corn may be given in the 
winter and hemp seed is always relished. Green 
food should always be provided; cabbage, turnips 
cut in small pieces, and mangel-wurzel beets may be 
given in the winter. In the summer the fowls can 
forage for themselves, if left free. If confined to 
coop and run, they should be given a half ounce per 
day per fowl of finely ground, green bone, or meat 
scraps in addition to their other food. 
Give the same care as given to ordinary chickens. 
REFERENCES 
Tue Pouttry Book, H. Weir. 
Ovutpoor Work, M. R. Miller. 
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