Tht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
841 
Babying the Baby Chick 
I try to plan tn give a great <leal of 
time to the little chicks for the first two 
nr three weeks; this is the time they 
need very close attention and care. This 
is one advauta; of the day-old chick in¬ 
dustry. as one can get the year’s supply 
all at one time, and after the first two 
or three weeks a large part of the hardest 
labor is over. 
It is never advisable to put chicks of 
two sizes together, as the younger ones 
will not do well. The first three weeks 
of a chick's life is of the greatest im¬ 
portance: if they do weU through that 
period, making a healthy, rapid and 
vigorous growth, it is safe to say that, 
barring losses through hawks, crows and 
rate, their ultimate and early develop¬ 
ment is assured. 
The brooder house needs a thorough 
cleansing a few days before the chicks are 
expected: this should be done with boil¬ 
ing water, kerosene oil and some good 
disinfectant, going over it two different 
times if possible. This preparation should 
be used lavishly, both as a spray and 
with a broom. This advice would hardly 
seem necessary, but to the writer’s per¬ 
sonal knowledge people have put little 
chicks into their brooder houses without 
due preparation and have had trouble. 
The stove should be thoroughly cleaned 
out and the fire started two days before 
the chicks are due to arrive: this will 
allow ample time in which to get the 
house dry and the stove regulated. The 
thermometer should be hung close to the 
floor, not far from the stove, just outside 
the canopy. A fresh litter of clean 
straw, which has been cut in six-inch 
lengths, should cover a part of the floor: 
one or two large sticks laid down will 
help to keep the straw in place. 
When T am expecting my chicks 1 
arrange a number of little flat basins of 
thick sour milk over the part of the floor 
which is not covered with the litter; an 
old glass or cup is inverted in each basin 
to prevent the chicks from climbing into 
them. As the chicks are removed from 
tii/' carriers I dip a great many of the 
little lulls into the sour milk, hut with 
200 or more it would- take too much time 
to treat them all that way: however, it 
is surprising to see how quickly they 
will find the milk and help themselves. 
If the chicks have been out <>f the incu¬ 
bator only a short time, the sour milk 
will he sufficient for the day. as* they 
leave the shell with sufficient nourishment 
ip, their little bodies to last for 48 hours 
at least. Care should be taken to see 
tha' each chick gets some of the milk, 
as there are always weak ones in every 
flock. 
In feeding my chicks I follow the same 
method T used years ago. long before 
day-old chicks were ever on the market. 
T make no claim that it is superior to 
otlmr methods, hut cling to it because I 
feel very safe in doing so. as I have 
always had good luck with my chicks. 
I use coarse eornmeal wet with just 
enough warm water to make it crumbly, 
and into this I stir about one-third the 
amount of oatflake. This moistened meal 
will soften the oatflake somewhat and the 
clicks can cat it better. While they are 
little 1 stir some powdered charcoal into 
tin meal before wetting, once each day. 
This keeps the little crops sweet and 
helps to prevent bowel trouble. At first 
I use hoards for the meal, taking them 
up after each feeding, and cleansing them 
every two or three days. After a couple 
of weeks I discard those and feed on the 
floor, sweeping it carefully each time 
before feeding. The chicks need plenty 
of room in which to eat. in order that 
the weaker ones will have a chance. I 
feed this eornmeal and oatflake mixture 
four times daily for about five weeks, and 
tlnn drop to three times daily for the 
next three months, and after that once 
:i day in troughs, until the pullets are 
transferred to the henhouse. Only enough 
meal for one feeding should he mixed at 
a time, as eornmeal sours very easily 
when wet. and should never be fed in 
that condition, especially to small chicks. 
I never mix meal with sour milk, as it 
not a good combination. 
For scratch feed I use cracked corn, 
ground or sifted oyster shells and oatflake 
for the first six days; after that I drop 
the oatflake in this mixture and substitute 
whole wheat. I know that this is con¬ 
trary to all modern methods of chick feed¬ 
ing. hut T learned it years ago when giv¬ 
ing whole wheat to the mother liens; I 
noticed that the chicks very quickly 
learned to eat the whole kernels and so 
have used the wheat that way ever since. 
At lirst I put this scratch feed in shallow 
dishes, like old dripping pans, until the 
reeding boards are abandoned, and then 
jt is thrown on the floor between the 
feedings „f the eornmeal. This should 
oe swept out into the yard just before 
mealtime and the chicks will pick it all 
up later. \\ hile giving this scratch feed 
in the pans care should he taken to keep 
i 'lean also; it can he emptied out to 
the hens, so there is no wastage. It is 
It tn be so careful onlv for 
lie fust two weeks; after that the chicks 
" o’.iie acclimated and are usually quite 
V ;.i T , f 1&, th *. fhi, ‘ ks n 11 they will eat 
inore. as this gives the 
dp and a lit11 
xv,,.,l-,.,. . iois gives rue 
th. ‘v «^ , a <,han °e, and I notice that 
ones o„ fiP! Ck i? p ? ! ot after the larger 
' fhiough. 1 like to have as large 
chi l- * !lS possible for the feeding, as the 
devi S ht:; n U t0 Rrow m, "'e evenly. I have 
1 find t'l ? ht ° r , n . s, ,“d a hit of ,-hick feed. 
my chicks make a very vigor- 
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