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American Agriculturist, June 21, 1924 
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Why Feed Milk to Chicks? 
Some Reasons Why Chicks Don’t Grow Right 
F OR the best advance 
and progress of a 
chick it is necessary that the food they 
obtain should contain all the vital ele¬ 
ments essential to growth and develop¬ 
ment. One of the best.,starting feeds the 
writer ever used is an ordinary hard- 
boiled egg, chopped up fine, shell and all. 
Such a feed for young chicks is about like 
cannibalism; an egg contains all the 
properties that make and develop a full- 
fledged chick, and, therefore, it is a perfect 
food provided the breeding stock is in 
good physical condition. 
The trouble comes when the poultry- 
man tries to make up a ration that repre¬ 
sents all the vital elements necessary for 
a chick’s growth. Perhaps it agrees with 
the majority of the chicks and kills 
others, or perhaps they advance and grow 
on it for a time and then go all to pieces 
for apparently no special reason and in 
spite of good care. 
Symptoms of Under-Nourishment 
Some of the most pronounced symp¬ 
toms of under-nourishment or bad nour¬ 
ishment are found in leg weakness, a black 
or watery ring around the eye, sometimes 
sticking the eye shut, drooping wings that 
in pronounced cases touch the floor, plas¬ 
tering up behind, and ruffled, uneven 
feathering. Such symptoms among young 
and growing chicks show a lack of some 
element in their food which leads to irreg¬ 
ular growth. In these days, this lack of 
something in a feed means that a vitamine 
or vital part of the ration is either lacking 
entirely or lacking in sufficient quantity 
hot to produce the best possible growth. > 
What is a vitamine? So far no scientist 
has been able to isolate or set apart this 
substance or essential. The proof of its 
existence has been established by feeding 
certain combinations of food which have 
contained some or all of these elements. 
Where one was lacking the results were 
not correct and the development showed 
in the same way as in the case of little 
chicks; an improper condition, not a dis¬ 
ease but a plain something wrong in 
development. 
By L. H. HISCOCK Dig up some fresh sod 
and throw it in to them 
once a day in good quantity. 
Milk, likewise, is a big addition unless 
you are using a ration that specifically 
says not to use it. On the farm perhaps 
you can spare a little for the chicks. Sour 
it and then you will not only have a help 
in the way of vitamines but lactic acid 
which is also beneficial for young chicks. 
Use of Cod-Liver Oil a Big Find 
As regards vitamine D and the use of 
cod-liver oil, there is no question in the 
writer’s mind but what this is one of the 
biggest finds in the rearing of young 
chicks, especially where chicks are 
hatched early or are kept without suffi¬ 
cient grass range. The best way to de¬ 
termine your own use of this feed would 
be to cooperate with your nearest experi¬ 
ment station. They can advise you and 
make recommendations as to its use. 
The main trouble with young chicks 
to-day and the reason for heavy losses is 
the failure to comprehend the ups and 
downs in the health of young stock. Dis¬ 
ease, of course, takes a goodly toll, weak 
parent stock takes its share, but the loss 
from improper feeding and the failure to 
recognize fundamental elements required 
for the normal growth of chicks account 
for the greatest losses of all. If you can 
look at your ration in the light of essen¬ 
tials or vitamines, if you can learn to 
check up its deficiencies and see where it is 
lacking, then the results both in the 
growth and development of the flock and 
in the actual decreased mortality will far 
offset the trouble of checking rations more 
closely. 
Our Experience With Baby Chicks 
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Where Vitamines Are Found 
To date there are four of these vita- 
mines, and, if your chicks are developing 
normally, it is probable that they are get¬ 
ting the correct amount of these essen¬ 
tials. Because of their unknown composi¬ 
tion these vitamines are simply called by 
letters: A, B, C, and D. A is present in 
milk, eggs, cod-liver oil, and, to some 
extent, iu green food. B is present in 
milk, yeast, eggs, fruit, green leaves, 
sprouts, and the outer covering of grains. 
C is found in milk, fresh fruits, gj-een 
leaves, and sprouts. D is present in milk, 
eggs, cod-liver oil, and green stuff. D, or 
this last vitamine, is a comparatively new 
or recent element, but it seems to be one 
of the most important of the group when 
applied to young chicks. Leg weakness is 
entirely attributed to a lack of this par¬ 
ticular element in chick rations, and, 
doubtless, other specific disorders may be 
similarly assigned to vitamine D as sci¬ 
ence advances. 
Milk and Eggs in All of Them 
From another examination of the vita¬ 
mines listed above and what feeds contain 
these elements, you can see at a glance 
why it is that certain foods are so bene¬ 
ficial. Take milk, for example. It con¬ 
tains every vitamine. Eggs contain 
three, and, as A and D are the most im¬ 
portant, it is not hard to understand why 
the hard-boiled egg ration agrees with 
young chicks. Green food also contains 
all the vitamines, and that is why chicks 
in the run or yard that has good fresh sod 
and grass do well and often pick up as soon 
as we turn them out. The trouble comes, 
however, when we can not get the chicks 
out. It is essential that they have green 
food. If you do not sprout oats or have 
beets handy, then resort to the spade. 
TX/’E plan to have our chicks the latter 
’ » part of May when the weather has 
somewhat settled, but early enough to get 
the chicks well started before the haying 
season begins. We always give them sour 
milk at first then a feeding of mashed egg- 
yolks, rolled oats or finest chick grain. 
iThey are fed five times a day for the first 
two weeks or so. 
At present we use oil burning hover 
brooders in brooder houses. If the weather 
is too cool we stretch fine mesh chick wire 
around a foot from the hover to keep the 
chicks from getting too far from the 
warmth. The first year we raised baby 
chicks in a home-made brooder without 
any artificial heat and only lost two or 
three out of a hundred. 
We have hatched baby chicks with both 
incubator and hens but on the whole we 
prefer to buy the chicks. There is a lot of 
satisfaction in getting what you want 
when you want it.—E. M. N., New York. 
‘‘First Aid” For Eggs 
Ida B. Leavelle 
TN these days when everything spells 
A economy to the busy housewife, did 
it ever occur to you that you might give 
“First Aid” to a valuable setting of eggs? 
One of the most interesting experiences 
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one spring when I was busy getting eggs 
under all my hens that Were wanting to set. 
I happened to have a breed of hens that 
were making Unusually good mothers and 
decided to try and raise a few turkeys; so 
we had bought a setting of turkey eggs, 
and, as I took them out of the box, I ex¬ 
amined them carefully and discovered one 
that was cracked. 
^ Now I have found adhesive tape a real 
“friend in need,” many, many times, and, 
as I looked at that cracked egg I decided 
to try and mend it. 
I brushed the crack with my hand to 
take off any bit of moisture that might be 
there and then put on a strip of tape just 
long enough to fully cover the crack; you 
may well believe I kept a strict watch on 
that egg. 
Every day when I went out to care for 
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