Bolgiano’s Vital Hatch Baby Chicks 73 
Bolgiano’s ‘“ Vital-Hatch ” Poultry Farms; Office, Pratt and Light Sts., Baltimore, Md. 
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* PRICES VITAL-HATCH BABY CHICKS 
“i 25 50 100 500 1000 
> VARIETY Chicks Chicks Chicks Chicks Chicks 
Single Comb White Leghorns..... miele) siecle ion SOLUU $11.00 $20.00 $95.00 $180.00 
Single Comb Brown Leghorns....... coocpgele > GLOW) 11.00 20.00 95.00 180.00 
BUT UROCKS)) -)) alactls see chcjarnis oe «!s\0 nacdooooode:, Oa) 12.00 22.00 
Barred Plymouth Rocks........... peWuain ns 6.50 12.00 22.00 105.00 200.00 
“Single Comb Rhode Island Reds............- 6.50 12.00 22.00 * 105.00 200.00 
Single Comb Black Minorcas.......... eet otaks 7.00 13.00 25.00 
White Plymouth Rocks.................... 7.00 13.00 25.00 120.00 2:30.00 
White Wyandottes ...............- Srareeaeres 7.00 13.00 25.00 
Single Comb Anconas..........-.---+++++-- 7.00 13.00 25.00 
5 PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE 
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Watch Your Brooding 
First of all the chicks must have 
ample heat. If they are with hens 
just take care of the hen, seeing to it 
that she has dry, well-ventilated quar- 
ters, safe from predatory animals and 
Mother Nature will attend to the heat- 
ing apparatus. If the chicks are put 
under brooders then be sure the tem- 
perature is right and uniform both 
day and night. Overheating and chill- 
ing bring on such troubles as White 
Diarrhoea, bowel trouble, and leg 
weakness. 
About Shipping 
The shipping of Baby Chicks by 
Parcel Post was so universally suc- 
cessful last season that the Govern- 
ment has made the ruling on shipping 
Baby Chicks by Parcel Post perma- 
nent. All of the prices quoted on 
Baby Chicks are Postpaid to your 
_ Postoffice, 
The purchaser assumes all risks 
when chicks are ordered shipped by 
express. 
If your birds are on range, coop the 
hen in such a way that the chicks may 
run in the yard but don’t allow the 
hen her freedom. Oth- 
erwise Mrs. Biddy will 
take her family sight- 
seeing and pretty soon 
half your chicks will 
have disappeared. 
Before putting the 
chicks under the brooder 
have the brooder warm- 
ed up and regulated to 
the proper temperature. 
For newly-hatched 
chicks 95 to 100 degrees 
is necessary. As chicks 
grow older they do not 
require as high a tem- 
perature. 
About Ordering 
We are usually in a 
_ position to ship Day Old 
Chicks within a week 
from the date your or- 
der is received. We, 
however, advise you to 
allow us to book your 
order early, thereby 
avoiding all delays and 
the many disappoint- 
- ments that are bound to Directions for Feeding 
First 8 Weeks 
Give the chicks fresh 
water and fine grit from 
the start but no feed 
until they are 48 hours 
old. The yolk, absorbed 
into the system just be- 
fore hatching out, is 
Nature’s nourishment 
at this period and is all 
the chick requires. The 
aae fasting period gives the 
chick a chance to assimilate the yolk, and removes the cause of many chick losses through feeding too soon. 
___ By feeding the chicks grit at the start the gizzard will be ready to perform its proper functions when the food is finally 
given to the chick. After the 48 hours have elapsed give the chicks Bolgiano’s Buttermilk Starting Feed dry just as it comes 
from the bag but allow them very little the first few feeds. When 72 hours old give the chicks their first feed of Bolgiano’s 
Square Deal Chick Starter, scattering it five times per day in a clean litter of cut clover or alfalfa. 
For the first feed place the feed on paper or feeding boards, tapping with the fingers so as to call the chick’s attention to 
_ the feed. Leave the feed before them for 15 or 20 minutes, then remove whatever is left. After the first few days, begin feeding 
_ twice each day, continuing until the chicks are at least six days old. 
After six days place food in small feeding troughs or hoppers to prevent waste, keeping it before them all the time. This 
method prevents the chicks overeating, and insures their consuming sufficient food to keep them growing every minute, without 
_overtaxing the digestive organs. At this stage a little green food may be given once a day. Young sprouted oats, lettuce or 
tender grass sod is fine. 
After the eighth week start mixing Bolgiano’s Buttermilk Growing Mash with the Starting Feed, adding about ten per cent 
of Growing Mash daily until the birds are being fed entirely on Growing Mash. When laying time comes switch the flock to 
_Bolgiano’s Buttermilk Laying Mash. 
occur in the busiest 
part of the season. Our 
First Floor will be alive 
_ with Baby Chicks this 
4 Spring. Come and see 
- them. 
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A Shipment of Vital-Hatch Baby Chicks to NILES, Mich. 
