50 Money in Broilers and Squabs. 



attentions of the attendant for everything it receives, so that no de- 

 tail of proper management must be omitted." 



R. W. Davison, in Agricultural Epitomist, says: 



"Some people claim that it is easier to hatch chickens than it if 

 to raise them. No doubt that in such cases the brooder or way of 

 managing is to blame. It must be remembered that the chicks come 

 from the incubator where the temperature is anywhere from loc 

 to 105 degrees, (the heat ought to be run down to 90 of 95 degrees 

 after all the chicks are out of the shell) so that it will not be advis- 

 able to put them in a cold brooder or cold room. For the first ten 

 days, not longer, the brooder ought to stand in a warm room or 

 where the outside temperature does not fall below 65 degrees. 

 This will prevent the little fellows getting chilled if they should stay 

 outside of the brooder too long. If the outdoor brooder is used 

 then they can be confined to it for the ten days if not too crowded ; 

 thus the warm room will not be so necessary. To prevent the chicks 

 from wandering away from the brooders too far at first stand up 

 five inch wide boards forming a little pen along the front of the 

 brooder. When the chicks get large enough to jump over they can 

 be removed. 



"While the food is a very important consideration with brooder 

 chicks, the manner of giving it is just as important. Now the ques- 

 tion of exercise should not be overlooked. These little fellows 

 should be taught to exercise when a week old. Each little pen 

 should have litter in it. If it can be had there is nothing better 

 than clover hay chaff — the leaves, heads and seeds that shake off in 

 handling the hay. Next to clover chaff comes cut straw, cut in half- 

 inch lengths. Do not have the litter too thick on the floor at first, 

 say half an inch deep, but as the chicks grow increase the depth. 

 Induce scratching by scattering a little cracked wheat or millet seed 

 in the chaff. This exercise will keep the body healthy and prevent 

 leg weakness. It must be remembered that brooder chicks do not 

 have all outdoors to run in, neither do they have a mother to teach 

 them this 'fine art.' " 



Arthur G. Duston, of Marlboro, Mass., has been very success- 

 ful in growing broilers. He advises that care must be taken not to 

 get the chicks chilled in transferring from the incubator to the 

 brooder. 



For the first week, warmth is considered more essential than 

 food. 



At the close of their first day in the brooder they are given a 

 feed of rolled oats. Next morning they get more rolled oats with a 

 dish of warm milk to drink. The milk is fed from a can fountain, 

 made from an old fruit can notched at the lower edge, which is filled 

 and inverted on an old saucer not much larger than the can. Some 

 chicks that will not eat, will take to skim milk, and it gives all a fine 

 start. Powdered charcoal is kept near them as a regulator. The 

 young chicks are fed every two hours. The first week they get 

 rolled oats, millet seed and corn cracked very fine. Skim- 

 milk is kept before them all the time and the milk dishes washed 



