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Vol. 13 JANUARY 20,1936 No. 1 
From Chicks to Pullets 
Follow this Plan ’ 
Clean and Disinfect House 
Before chicks arrive, take everything movable out 
of the brooder house. Sweep ceiling, walls, and floors 
thoroughly. Clean out all dirt and litter. Scrape off 
any dirt and droppings sticking to walls or floor. 
Scrub walls and floor with a solution of a good dis¬ 
infectant. Spray ceiling with the same strength 
solution and force spray into all cracks in the house. 
Test Brooder Stove 
Run your brooder stoves at least three full days 
before your chicks arrive. Watch your temperature 
closely. Be certain of accurate temperature control. 
Prevent chicks from straying too far from the hover 
and keep them from huddling in the corners of the 
brooder house. 
Provide Clean Litter 
Provide peat moss, shavings, or good straw (chaff 
removed) for litter. When chicks are put down, 
cover litter with several thicknesses of paper imme¬ 
diately around bi-ooder stove. Remove top layer 
daily. By third day chicks will have learned what 
feed and drink are and may be safely allowed on 
litter*. 
Watch the Temperature 
Place thermometer so bulb is 3 inches above floor 
underneath outside edge of hover. Keep temperature 
at 90 to 95 degrees first two days and reduce steadily 
by one degree each day until the end of the second 
week when the temperature should be 80 to 85 de¬ 
grees. Chilling or overheating lowers vitality . . . . 
watch temperature constantly. After the first two 
weeks give birds an opportunity to get away from 
stove into colder air if they desii*e to do so. 
Provide Plenty of Water 
Provide a one-gallon drinking fountain for each 
50 chicks. Keep drinking fountains filled at all times. 
See that the water is’lukewarm. To assist in pre¬ 
venting the spread of disease, use some such chick 
tablets as Avicol, Dr. Hess or Pratt’s, in the drink¬ 
ing water. 
Give Chicles Air 
Provide plenty of fresh air without drafts. Keep 
the chicks comfortable. Watch this closely. Be sure 
brooder stoves do not allow gases to escape within 
the brooder house. 
Keep Things Clean 
Keep drinking fountains and feed hoppers clean. 
Disinfect often. Old litter should always be removed 
and the brooder house cleaned and disinfected before 
brooding a second lot of chicks in the same quarters. 
Allow Plenty of Room 
Don’t crowd. 250 to 300 chicks should be the 
maximum to each house. Brooding a larger number 
of chicks in one unit invites trouble. Never place 
more than three chicks per squai'e foot and allow 
more space if at all possible. 
- Way to Feed 
First Six Weeks: Have Purina STARTENA on 
hand when chicks arrive. Give chicks a limited 
amount of lukewarm water shortly after they arrive. 
Then give their first feed of Purina STARTENA. 
You may leave Purina STARTENA before the 
chicks from the first day on. Or, leave feed before 
the chicks for two hours and then remove for one 
hour. Either system gives good results. 
A light evening feeding of Purina CHICK CHOW 
(fine scratch grain) may be fed any time after the 
third week. . 
Seventh Week to Maturity: Gradually change to 
Gould’s Growing Mash or Purina GROWING CHOW 
at six weeks. Follow this easy feeding plan: 
A. From the seventh to the twentieth week put 
7 pounds of Gould’s Growing Mash or Purina 
GROWING CHOW in the hoppers daily for 
each 100 chicks. Do this for 100 days. 
B. Feed all the scratch feed the birds will eat— 
both morning and evening. Be sure that the 
morning scratch grain is fed before Growing 
Mash or GROWING CHOW is placed in the 
hoppers. Use Purina CHICK CHOW (coarse) 
as scratch grain up to the twelfth week. 
From then on use Gould’s Scratch Feed. 
Separate Cockerell 
Do this as early as possible. Confine cockerels 
closely and feed them GROWENA until ready for 
market as broilers at eight to ten weeks. Separation 
and closer confinement is better for cockerels and at 
the same time provides the pullets with more space. 
Range Rearing 
If range rearing is practical, get chicks out on 
clean range at the earliest possible age. Provide 
plenty of feed hoppers filled with Purina GROWENA 
all the time. Provide plenty of fresh, clean water. 
Guard Against Parasites 
If birds show signs of worms at 12 to 20 weeks 
of age, treat with a good worm remedy. Should lice 
or mites bother, clean the house thoroughly, spray 
with a disinfectant, and dust birds With Lice Powder. 
The Poultry Outlook This Spring 
There is every indication at the beginning of 1936 
that prices for eggs and poultry will hold up well. 
A shortage of both hogs and beef as well as low 
storage stocks of eggs and poultry is a vital factor. 
The live hen population is also considerably below 
normal. Hatchei’ies are having much greater inquiry 
for chicks already, and as they will have to pay a 
much higher price for hatching eggs this year, baby 
chicks—that is, good, reliable stock, will bring higher 
prices. Do not put off buying your baby chicks until 
too late. 
A hen in her second year will lay about 25% less 
than she did in her first year, and there will be a 
dropping off of about another 15% in her third year. 
So it does not pay to keep birds that are over two 
years old. There may be exceptions, but vei-y few. 
On days when weather is damp, birds should be 
given more feed than on. days that are dry. Colder 
weather, of course, demands an increase in the 
amount of feed you give your birds. On very cold 
days increase the feed with cracked corn as this is 
a heating food. When fed inside the henhouse, put 
scratch feed in clean litter so that the birds get the 
needed exercise to keep healthy. 
