iettuce, cabbage chopped fine, and grass or tops from sprouted oats cut into 

 short lengths, less than K inch, are all excellent for the purpose 



The use of animal food in some form is of considerable help in the 

 proper development of the chick. Beef-scrap, lean meat, finely ground 

 green bone, blood meal, bone meal and m;lk in its various forms are used 

 in various ways in feeding the chicks. Milk -can be used liberally without 

 harm, but the other articles mentioned must be fed with some caution 

 When feeding fresh bone or meat make sure that it is perfectly fresh and 

 sweet and when beef scrap is used it should be of the best quality. Animal 

 foods should not be given until after the first week and then only in small 

 quantities at first. Beef scrap is one of the most popular forms of animal 

 food in use and many poultry raisers allow their chicks free access to hop- 

 pers filled with this material. A too liberal use of the more concentrated 

 forms of animal foods is likely to cause bowel trouble, and this must be 

 guarded against. The right sort of feeding is the secret of raising chicks 

 and should be attended to carefully and not wastefully. Keep the chicks 

 just hungry enough to be willing to work for what they get. A careless 

 feeder not only wastes the food, but will ruin the flock. Irregular care of 

 little chicks leads to failure. One hour's chill, caused by a lowering of 

 temperature in the brooder, may bring the setback which cannot be made up 

 for quite a while, if ever. Continuous care is the secret of success, and 

 systematic observation of conditions is necessary at all times. It does not 

 do to give excellent care for ten hours, and then forget what should be 

 done at the eleventh hour. 



FEEDING FOR BROILERS 



Where chicks are raised for broilers they should be fed very much the 

 same as other chicks for the first two weeks, but after that time such a 

 method of feeding must be used as will produce a plump carcass weighing 

 from one and one-half to two pounds in the shortest possible time. Heavy 

 feeding is necessary to fatten the chicks quickly and the digestive apparatus 

 can be taxed to the limit for this process does not have to be carried on 'for 

 any length of time. At the beginning of the third week a mash feed should 

 be given once a day and the fourth week add one more feed of this material. 

 When the chicks are a month old, three moderate feeds of mash should be 

 given each day, finishing up the meal with a little grain scattered in the litter 

 to induce exercise. To get the best results the chicks should be fed four 

 of five times a day and at such times when the mash is not used a mixture 

 of whole and cracked grains of a suitable size, as well as some green food, 

 should be given. During the last two weeks of feeding the bulk of the 

 food given should be mash. In feeding broilers the mash used is somewhat 

 diflFerent from that ordinarily given to chicks, being more fattening. A 

 mixture of five parts corn meal, four parts wheat bran and six parts ground 

 oats (without hulls) should give good results. If oats without the hulls are 

 not obtainable substitute middlings of about half the quantity. Oats with 

 the hulls should never be used for small chicks. In feeding the mash 

 moisten the ground grains just enough to make a crumbly mass, for sloppy 

 foods must never be used. A little bone meal and ground charcoal and a 

 very little salt will be found excellent in the mash. Animal food should 

 be given broilers same as other chicks and green foods supplied daily. 

 Broilers should not be given free range or the use of large yards, but they 

 cannot be kept in healthy condition or successfully grown if they are over- 

 crowded. If conditions are favorable the broiler should be ready for the 

 market in eight to ten weeks. 



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