DUCK DOLLARS 51 
Do not stand and watch these little ducklings. They will not feed 
until you go away and leave them alone. The food is Leave Them 
scattered on a board and the ducklings walk out from Alone 
under the hot-water pipes to the board and eat, now and then going to 
the water fountain for a drink. The run-way is partitioned off half-way 
with a board placed there temporarily so that they will not wander too 
far from the hot-water pipes and get down to the window where it is 
cold. At night they are shut in completely under the hot-water pipes 
by taking this board and moving it up to the head of the pen, next the 
top board above the hot-water pipes. 
For the first two days, the food above described should be before 
these youngest ducklings continuously. For that reason, 
visit the nursery five times a day for these first two days 
to renew the food on the boards in the pens and to 
renew the water in the fountains. 
The food board is three feet long, the same width as the pen, and 
six inches wide. This has laths nailed on the ends and sides to prevent 
the food from sliding off or from being pushed off. 
The beginner should be constantly impressed with the importance of 
keeping the brooders scrupulously clean. Every other day the droppings 
and dirty sawdust should be removed from under the 
pipes. The best way to go at this job is from the walk Care ot 
side of the brooder. Take off the cover. With a narrow Brostes 
shingle, scrape out underneath the pipes, taking out only the wet and 
dirty sawdust, and putting it into a bushel basket which is carried outside 
when full; or, in a larger brooder house, use a wheelbarrow. As each 
brooder is cleaned, put in a thin layer of fresh, dry sawdust from a basket 
taken on your arm from pen to pen. 
The food boards should be scraped with a shingle or piece of tin each 
day to keep them respectably clean. Take up each board . 
and scrape it into a basket. It will be covered with Cleaniitiess 
Essential 
sawdust, refuse, etc. 
In our system of care of brooder house, this scraping of the food 
boards and washing the fountains is done regularly every day after the 
two o’clock feeding. The attendant goes along each pen, picking up the 
fountains and food boards and placing them on the brooder covers. The 
boards are then scraped (with a sheet iron scraper about six inches 
square) into a bushel basket, this refuse being thrown on the manure 
pile. The fountains are then washed and rinsed, after which they are 
filled with water while standing on the brooder tops. On a plant of 
large magnitude, three men work together doing this job. While the 
cleaning of boards and fountains is going on, one of the men is bedding 
the pens, using dry pine sawdust for this purpose. When the task is 
completed, the men immediately begin putting down the fountains and 
food boards, and the ducklings then are ready to receive their next food. 
The five feeding times are as follows: 6 a.m., 9 a.m., 11.30 a.m., 2.30 
p-m., 5.30p.m. The ducklings will get eager and hungry 
and will cry for food at each of these feeding times. 
They are not old enough to make a quacking noise, but 
Food Always 
Before Them 
Feeding 
Hours 
