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scraps five per cent., grit one per cent. The scraps, if too coarse, should 
be screened, the fine part being used for the small birds and the coarse 
part for the older ones. 
For grit use common sand and gravel off the farm for the first three 
days of the duckling’s life. From then on use grit made : 
from granite in two sizes, fine and medium. Use the Gut 
fine grit at first and the medium grit as the duckling gets older. 
Keep the ducklings in the first nursery house two to three weeks, 
depending on how you are fixed for room. If you have a hatch coming 
off from the incubator, clean out a sufficient number of pens in the 
nursery to make room for the new-comers, 
The nursery house has a dirt floor, not a board floor. This dirt 
(sand or gravel or dry loam or clay) should be in each pen with dry 
sawdust laid down on top of the sandy bottom. Carry 
this sawdust into the nursery house in a wheelbar- 
row and shovel it from the wheelbarrow into the pens, 
then rake it level to a depth of an inch. Use dry pine sawdust. Almost 
any sawdust except oak can be used. Do not use oak sawdust, for if you 
do it will turn the drinking water blue as it gets off the bills of the duck- 
lings, and this bluish drinking water does not smell or taste wholesome. 
Pine or spruce sawdust is good. 
When the ducklings are two or three weeks old, take them in a bas- 
ket, a pen at a time, to the second brooder house where he Second 
the pens are four feet wide instead of three feet wide, Brooder 
and ten feet long instead of nine feet long. House 
All ducklings are fed four times a day in this second house at the 
following hours: 6 a.m., Io a.m., 2 p.m., 5.30 p.m. This 
The Second 
second house has a hot-water heating arrangement 
exactly like the nursery house, except that the pipes are House 
farther from the floor. 
The outdoor runs of this second brooder house are twenty feet long. 
It depends on the weather whether or not you let the three-week-old 
ducklings outdoors into these runs from the inside pen. On bright, 
sunny days, not too cold (if in winter) you can let them out, and 
their exercise outdoors will do them good. Remember, just now we are 
talking about our latitude and our winters. If you live in K Th 
southern latitudes or in a warmer climate than ours, or if =eP ba 
it is summer-time with you in this latitude, you can let Dry 
the young ones outdoors more freely. Do not let them out in the rain 
or snow. 
All the feeding in this second house is done inside the house, same 
as in the nursery house. The food boards in this second house are larger 
than in the nursery. They are four feet long and nine inches wide or just 
wide enough to be cleaned with a shovel. Before each feeding time, 
scrape off the saw ust, refuse food, etc., from each board with a shovel 
and throw this refuse into the walk of the house. Every four or five 
days this refuse should be raked into a pile and carted out in a wheel- 
barrow. 
The No. 2 water fountains used in this second house are made in the 
Use Dry 
Sawdust 
