332 POULTRY CTJLTURE 



Rolled oats 8 parts. 



Bread crumbs 8 



Sifted beef scrap 2 



Bone meal 1 part. 



Nutritive ratio, 1 :3.3. 



This mixture is mixed with sour milk and is fed five times a 

 day. The baby chicks must not be allowed to become chilled. 

 If they are allowed to get out from under the hover in a corner 

 till they begin to peep, you may know that they are cold, and 

 the next thing that will happen is diarrhea and dead chicks. 



From the fifth to the fifteenth day the following mixture 

 may be given : 



Cracked wheat 3 parts. 



Cracked corn (fine) 2 



Pin-head oatmeal 1 part. 



Nutritive ratio, 1 : 7.4. 



This feed is to be scattered in a litter morning and evening. 



The following mixture is to be given, mixed with sour milk, 

 three times a day, in addition to the above. At the end of 

 fifteen days it is fed only twice a day: 



Wheat bran 3 parts. 



Cornmeal 3 " 



Wheat middlings 3 " 



Beef scrap 3 " 



Bone meal 1 part. 



Nutritive ratio, 1 : 2.4. 



After the chicks are thirty days old give moist mash once a 

 day, and also keep same mash in dry mash hoppers before them 

 at all times. Give the following in litter morning and evening. 



Whole wheat 3 parts. 



Cracked corn 2 " 



Hulled oats 1 part. 



Nutritive ratio, 1 : 7.6. 



After the chicks are six weeks old continue the dry mash as 

 above, and give whole wheat and cracked corn, equal parts, in 

 hopper. Small-sized grit and charcoal must be kept before 

 them at all times. 



