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THE RUHAIj new-vokker 
February 14, 
The Henyard. 
BROODING CHICKS IN LARGE FLOCKS. 
Feeding : Mrs. Matthews Tells How. 
Will you induce H. E. Matthews, who 
writes of “Brooding Chicks in Large 
Flocks,” in your issue of Nov. 20, to tell 
us how he feeds and what he feeds these 
large flocks, so that each chick gets a 
plenty and none is run over? u. p. c. 
Woman’s sphere is talked about 
As though it had a limit. 
There’s not a place in earth or heaven; 
There’s not a task to mankind given; 
There’s not a sorrow or a woe; 
There’s not a whispered “yes” or “no”; 
There’s not a life, or death, or birth; 
There’s not a feather’s weight of worth 
Without a woman in it. 
That is now my husband’s opinion. A 
few years ago he started in the "hen 
business.” lie was very successful in 
the incubation, obtaining very fine 
hatches, but when it came to caring for 
the same chicks they would die. It was 
Ihen that he began to think that woman's 
sphere was not for household duties only, 
lie called on his wife to help him out. 
To be sure he knew all about the feeding 
of the young chicks. .She followed his 
instructions to a letter. The chicks 
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thrived and grew so rapidly he asked 
the reason why they would not grow the 
same for him. It was a mystery to me 
too. I could not see why they should 
grow for me when they would die for 
him. After going over the matter to¬ 
gether we came to the conclusion that 
the average man does not pay enough 
attention to the little details which must 
not be overlooked in raising little chicks. 
But there is an excuse for ,our husbands. 
They have a lot on their minds and in 
their hearts that we know little about 
and would understand still less. So it 
behooves us to put bur shoulder to the 
wheel and help where we are best fitted. 
Educating the Chick. —When the 
chicks are just out of the shell I make 
it a practice to tap on the glass of the 
incubator door. Chicks learn to come 
at this signal and at the same time the 
chicks become acquainted with you. 
When I have neglected this we notice 
the chicks are wild and harder to teach. 
I like to place the chicks under the hover 
Feed IIofper For Larger Chicks. 
when 24 hours old. Care must be taken 
at this .time to teach them the source 
of heat and how to get back to the heat. 
If not taught this at once it means 
trouble. We use boards 10 inches high, 
which we call educator boards. These 
are placed about, one foot froni the hover 
on all sides. At feeding time they are 
moved back another foot to give plenty 
of room that all may feed. Continue the 
use of the educator boards until the 
chicks all know' where to go for heat. 
Teach a feeding call by tapping on the 
feeding board. The chick soon learns to 
know the attendant, and expects some 
little titbit every time you come in. 
Throw out some little scrap and see them 
run. We keep the temperature near 100 
degrees under the hover at first. We 
like to have heat enough at night so 
that each chick will lie out flat with 
heads just peeping out from the curtains. 
If little chicks learn to get their heat 
by bunching together you will have 
trouble with them to the end, and that 
end will come very quickly to some of 
them. An attendant must be constantly 
with the chick during these first hours 
of the chick’s life. It means a saving 
of annoyance and labor when they are 
older. No matter what the size of the 
flock, whether 50, 100, 500 or 1,000, these 
same principles apply both in the educa* 
tion and feeding. It must be thoroughly* 
understood that the success of raising 
the chicks lies not altogether in feeding; 
pure air, heat and clean water play an 
all important part. Until every chick 
learns to go under the hover we put up 
the educator boards every night, but not 
as close to the hover as when they were 
first placed in the brooder. 
Wiiat We Feed. —We use the Cornell 
formula and also use the Cornell type of 
trays and feed troughs. Mixture No. 
1: Eight pounds rolled oats, eight pounds 
bread crumbs or cracker waste, two 
pounds sifted beef scrap (best grade), 
one pound bone meal. Mixture No. 2: 
Three pounds wheat cracked, two pounds 
cracked corn (fine), one pound pin head 
oat meal. Mixture No. 3: Three pounds 
w'heat bran, three pounds cornmeal, 
three pounds wheat middlings, three 
pounds beef scrap (best grade), one 
pound bone meal. Mixture No. 4: Three 
pounds wheat (whole), two pounds 
cracked corn, one pound hulled oats. 
Mixture No. 5: Three pounds wheat, 
three pounds cracked corn. Never feed 
a chick until it is at least 48 hours old 
or older. Do not be afraid they will 
starve. Nature has provided sufficient 
nourishment in the yolk of the egg that 
the chick assimilates. Often bowel 
trouble results from feeding too soon 
after they are hatched. It is more im¬ 
portant to give them wean fresh water. 
Teach them to drink by the tapping call 
on the water cans. Feed five times a day 
until the chick is a week old, being care¬ 
ful not to feed too liberally. Let them 
clean up their feed board in 10 minutes, 
then remove any that is left and give to 
your hens. Do not give any but clean 
fresh food to baby chicks. The first 
feed is mixture No. 1, moistened with 
sour skim-milk or water to a crumbly 
consistency, never sloppy. Scatter this 
on the feeding boards. Grit and char¬ 
coal should also be scattered with this 
first feed. A little of mixture No. 2 
should be fed on the boards until they 
learn to scratch in the litter for it. 
Place in shallow trays (see picture 
mixture No. 3, always keeping a supply 
before them. A piece of wire netting 
fitted loosely inside the trays prevents 
them from scratching out the mash. The 
main feed for about 10 days is mixture 
No. 1. 
From the age of 10 days to four weeks 
we gradually substitute some of mixture 
No. 3 (moistened to a crumbly consis¬ 
tency), for mixture No. 1, always having 
mixture No. 3 dry before them. From 
the age of four weeks to six moist is 
given twice a day with grain in the lit¬ 
ter. Dry mash No. 3, grit and charcoal 
always before them in trays. From the 
six weeks age there is but little to do 
beside giving them all they can eat at all 
times. Mixtures No. 3 and No. 5, are 
hopper fed. (8ee picture). A moist 
mash once a day will hurry them along. 
Pointers in feeding large flocks: Chicks 
should all be of the same age in large 
flocks. Some makers of brooder heaters 
say different ages can be brooded at one 
time. Don’t try it. Cull out the weaker 
chicks and place in flock of smaller 
chicks. The weaker chick although older 
needs the stimulating food of the younger 
chick. Scald water cans often. Keep 
brooders clean. Feed small chicks over 
night with grain in litter so daylight 
finds them feeding. Avoid mouldy litter 
and mouldy grain. Feed plenty of green 
food—sprouted oats, beets or cabbage. 
MRS. II. E. MATTHEWS. 
Poor Laying. 
For the past few years I have wintered 
over several hundred Leghorns, the feed¬ 
ing method being grain in the morning, 
then wheat middlings and bran (wet 
mash) before them until, say noon, then 
heavy grain feed about four o’clock. 
This method has been very successful and 
at this time of year, generally, I was 
getting a line output of eggs. This year 
my pullets (about 200) laid well till a 
few days ago, when they “laid off,” the 
output falling off one-lmlf. The hens 
don’t look right. My method this Winter 
varied only in the mash—where I have 
been feeding bran and middlings with 
big proportion of meat scrap and linseed 
meal. Could these last two ingredients 
have caused the slump from over nourish¬ 
ment? POULTRYMAX. 
You do not say what proportion of 
your mash is made up of meat scrap and 
oil meal. It is quite possible to feod too 
much of these high protein foods. I 
would not recommend a larger proportion 
than 5% of oil meal and 20% of beef 
scrap in the same mixture. It is not a 
good plan to keep a moist mash btl'ore 
the hens; they will overeat if this is 
done. A dry mash is difficult to swallow 
and the hens will eat only a mouthful or 
two at a time; this makes it practicable 
and economical to keep dry ground grains 
before the fowls in an open hoppe. - to 
which they can go at any time they 
please. This is not true of a moist mash, 
however, and if this is fed, it should be 
in limited quantity which will be quick¬ 
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