The herald., 1895-06-09
FEEDING YOUNG CHICKS

Where the chicks are fed a varied diet
there need be no fear of getting them
TOO fat. 1t is matter OF astonlshm ent
to some how much food little chicks VIII
get away with in day. They need lit
tie at time. but they require that little
often if they are to go ahead and grow.
1t pays to feed them well, for stunted
chickens will eat moro food than the
others in the same broods OF the same
age, and they will ever do as we'll as they
did before they We're neglected.
The first feed tlat the young chicks are
given should be placed on a board over
which clean sand has been scattered.
Many chickens are lost from not having
grit to properly grind their food with:
Boiled lean meat chopped fine is good
ration once day. Do not feed them.as
much of the meat as of other food at one
time Boiled wheat may be given as
soon as they will eat it, Whole wheat.
cracked corn, rolled oats and all grains
can be fed as soon as they can be induced
to partake of them. If the mother hen
is confined in a coop feed the chicks out
in front of the coop. Do not leave any
fo,d around after they have had all they
require. Green food should be given to
the chicks where the hen is cooped at
least once day. In the spring, after the
grass has started and the hens are al
lowed to run out each day with their
broods they will find all the ''greens"
meal mixed up with cold water, is apt
toiproduce scours. The chicks that are
given all they will eat of the cold-water-
mixed meal, especially in the morning,
Will eat SO muck that when the meal COM
mences to swell it will often sour in the
craw, and scours are the natural result.
Never give any damaged grain or impure
food of any kind TO the chicks as in the
end it will prove very expensive ven
ture. Many poultry ailments can be
traced to damaged food. The food
should always be clean and wholesome.
Slipshod or indifferen methods Of teed-
ing will invariably bring very unsatisfac-
tory results. Rest assured neglect in
feeding regularly and plenty OF suitable
food will give great chance to com.
plain about ''poor luck" If you are not
successful raising young chickens inter-
view yourself for the reason and do not
lay the blame to luck or the chickens.
RAISING poultry has attained that de-
gree of Importance that it is no more
sneered at as a trifling occupation. The
feeding of poultry mas now become al
most a science. The main idea used to
be that anything was good enough to
feed to the poultry. Now the poultry are
fed in q very rational and intelligent
manner. They are given rations that are
known will stimulate egg production
without causing them to become too fat.
When the object is to fatten the poultry
quite different kind of food is given.
The fact has also become esta blished that
different breeds require dissimilar diet
TO produce the same effects. The large
breeds do not forage to any great extent
and would become too fat il fed on GER
tain food that can be allowed the active
breeds without any danger OF impairlng
their laying qualities or making them
too fat. The low price of wheat last sea-
son has done more to convince many
farm ers that there is a profit 10 be de-
rived from feeding wheat to fowls than
they could be induced before to believe.
On many farms hereafter wheat will be
fed to the poultry, no matter what the
price.
A recent experimen proved that green
cut bones so increased the production of
eggs that it would pay to feed the bone if
20 cents per pound had to be paid for it.
In the face OF this there are plenty OF
PEOPLE who doubt the advantage of feed
ing raw cut bone. California Cultivator.