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"The above mixtures are suited to chicks that are from 

 ten days to six weeks old. From this time to about the 

 tenth week the meat meal should be gradually increased 

 from one-quarter part to one-half part. From the tenth 

 to fourteenth week another gradual increase should bring 

 the meat meal up to one part in the above formula, which 

 would then be the same as a formula for laying hens. 



"The bone meal should also be increased, but more 

 gradually, so that when the meat meal reaches one part the 

 bone meal amounts to one-half part." 



Quisenberryi recommends the following: "Begin by 

 feeding a mixture of two-thirds rolled oats and one-third 

 wheat bran mixed with a small amount of charcoal. This 

 is fed on a clean board or paper four or five times a day 

 and only a small quantity fed at a time. We remove the 

 feeding board after the chicks are through eating. Clean 

 sand is given about the time the first feed is given, and no 

 grit is given before. We think sand is better to start chicks 

 with than commercial grit, if it can be secured, and if not, 

 then use fine commercial grit very sparingly until chicks 

 are at least ten days old. After the chicks are a week old, 

 we begin to add a little commercial chick feed to the above 

 mixture and gradually increase this until the rolled oats 

 and bran are eliminated from the first or grain feed. At 

 this age, we also begin to feed a dry mash, the mash being 

 made by mixing the following: 1 part wheat bran, 1 part 

 corn meal, 1 part shorts, ^ part alfalfa meal, | part rolled 

 oats or oat meal. 



"We add | pound of very fine salt to each 100 pounds of 

 the above mixture, and also add a handful of fine charcoal. 

 After the chicks are two weeks old, we begin to add a small 

 quantity of dry beef scraps to the mash mixture. If the 

 chicks are on free range, and get plenty of bugs and worms, 

 they do not need the beef scraps. After the chicks are a 

 week old, the grain mixture should be thrown into a fine 

 clean litter or worked into fresh soil so the chicks will be 

 compelled to exercise. If confined to a board or concrete 



' Missouri Poultry Experiment Station Circular No. 1. 



