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CHAPTER IV 



BABY CHICKS— SOME DO'S AND DON'T'S 

 How Mother Nature Planned Them 



'OTHER NATURE has made very wonderful provi- 

 sion for the nurture of newly hatched baby chicks. 

 They require no food for the first two days except 

 the water with the chill taken off, when they are put 

 into the brooder. Mother Nature has taken care of 

 their wants by permitting the absorption of the yolk 

 of the egg in their bodies. This is just why it is noi 

 only possible but easy to send day-old chicks by rail, 

 or road, or steam, for long distances. I have shipped 

 day-old chicks safely, more than two thousand miles but, usually, a forty- 

 eight hour journey is ample for the young explorers. In order to break 

 these long distance shipments of baby chicks and give the greatest satis- 

 faction, I have established a branch farm in the far South, and at this 

 writing am negotiating for one in the extreme West. 



Don't Over-feed 



I was amused to have a young man write to me that he had a good 

 hatch but had lost a little chick. On examination he had found that it 

 had swallowed the yolk of an egg, which had killed it. If the chicks are 

 fed too soon, the yolk of an egg does not become absorbed in time, and 



