Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-06-11
2 Care Of Young Chicks.

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IT is the almost universal testimony of
poultry-raiseTs that the first food which
should be given to young chicks Is hard
boiled eggs chopped fine. Some think
the yolk only should be used, others use
recommend to mince finely the entire
egg, shell and all. Some think it best to
add also few bread crumbs or stale
bread soaked in milk and then squeezed
nearly dry. ..- .-fe-, IL
1t matters little which of these ways
is chosen, since we know that very salts
factory results are obtained by either
course, provided proper care is taken of
the chicks in other respe cts. Until they
are fully day old they need no food at
all.
When brood matches out irregularly
it is best to take away the oldest, IN
order that the hen may remain quietly
on the nest. Those taken away should
be covered up snugly in box or basket
and put out of hearing of the hen in a
warm place, until night, when they
should be returned to the nest. By the
next morning all ought to be ready to
come off .ni5 ti"r r''
Food as above mentioned should be
given for the first two or three days,
changing gradually TO In6ian meal and
cracked wheat, or what is known. as
wheat shorts or middlings. Where oat.
meal can be had it is perhaps preferable
to any other as staple article of diet
for growing chickens, but the difference
in its favor does not seem to Justify
any very extra trouble or expense to OBJ
tain it. ,~5 asri..g 10 gs9i4ay IrU
For a number of years we have pre-
pared our chicken feed as follows:
Shelled oofntis ground in an old farm
mill and then sifted through a sieve of
eight meshes to the inch. The coarse
part is reserved for feeding dry to the
chicks when they are q couple of weeks
old and for the last feed at night. The
finer meal is mixed half and half with
wheat shorts or middlingsa AT feeding
time, to each pint of mixed meal re-
quired should be added an even tea.
spoonful of fine salt, and occasionally a
little cayenne pepper, the whole well
mixed together and then wetted up stiff
with clabbered milk. This is the chief
diet, but is varied almost daily with
scraps from the table, or by using at
times wheat bran in the place of corn
meal, or by changing the proportions of
meal and shorts. saaT tr sso
As the chicks are kept ON grass plats
no care is required to supply them with
green food. Where it is necessary TO
keep them in close quarters fne-cut
grass and lettuce and other green food
must be given them daily, Good, clean
water should, OF course be at hand for
them at all times. I.~.r Lf.s r-.-...
Chicks thus fed are sure 10 thrive,
other conditions of success being at
tended to. One of these, too frequently
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Often a brood will be infested with
lice when it is little suspected there is
any hindrance to acknowledging They
may get along very well for time, but
after awhile they come to q stand.still, -
whenithe kndest care and most tempt.
ing food seems to be of no avail, and
they finally either droOp and die, OF con-
tinue a miserable existence, puny, weak,
and profitless little encumbrances on
onr hands. We venture The assertion
that in nine tenths of the cases where
young chicks are lost vermin figure
| largely as the Cause. r- esFC as
The safest and surest method we know
of to kill lice and keep the, chicks free
from them is to rub clean lard on the
head and throat of each of the chicks at
the time of cooping them with the hen.
Lard is sure death to the lice, and there
is no need of using Witt IL sulphur or
any ything else. Sulphur would, in fact,
be an injury; because the very property
sby which Il would destroy the lice would
also affect tiseriously tlIe chicks ss ''~f
we have seen repeatedly within the
Hast few years the use of sulphur highly
recommended as cure for and pre-
Eventiuerofs sffcc-on poultry. This we look
upon as one of the greetest mistakes
poultryrisers of this e.,lightened day
cad inake. In the Eastern States par
tic b fly this y fayorite FehatdH md
there, too, We observe that rOup is most
rpreValeHt. the practice of doctoring
i,fowls with sulphur becomes more com
mon in the West, here also its cOncom-
liant, rQupsis beenmin 9lnre destructive
Usually when chicks are inzthes con
dition above indicated they wibsbe found
If taken up to haYe half n DOZEN or more
large, gray liee on their heads, and a
much greater number Qf small, whitish
ones sticking close about the fore part
\ of the head and base Of the bill. The
gray robbers iwiif be most plainly seen
after tlfe4Ards is applied. Sometimes q
Ohiels's head and upper past ef the neck
iiyyill be almost black with -tiiefi. The
chicks car be most Onyenientiylisndle
1 in tho. evening. Go to the coop after
they have gone under the hen Remove
them gently TO a covered box or basket
\ at hand, and then apply ithe lard to eacl
as ii is returned to the hen. Some rec
ommend to grease lhe hen herself be
meath the wings, but the Hurest uRnC
best way Is TO put the lard on tbs
chicks, when we are sure II Is where 4