Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-18

dgrees, For the first week the tenn
pera,ure Is BOT permitted To fan below
30 degrees, for the second week be-
low 10 degrees. After that the tenn
peraiure may be gradually reduced
but not TO too large degree
Chickens should not be allowed To
hudde outside OF the hover. for they
never do this unless they are too cold
As soon rs they show a disposition to
do this they should be put under the
hover, nor on the other hand should
they be permitted 20 huddle too much
while under the hover for they need
a certain amount OF fresh air and eX-
erclsc IN order to make good progress
IN development
The floor OF the brooder Is cleaned
every day and kept wen sprinkled
with chicken grit. The floor OF the
house Is sprinkled with clover leaves
or hay char from The feeding floor Of
The stock barn.
For feeding the young chicks brea
Is made by mixing three parts corn
meal one part wheat bran and one part
middlings or -four with skim milk or
water, mixing the compound very dry
aud sailing about the same as bread Tor
the family table This Is baked thor
oughly. ana when done, If il is not dry
enough 10 crumble well IL is broken up
aud dried ont in the oven and then
ground up finely In mortar or hand
mill. Infertile eggs may be boiled nara
and ground w shell and all In sausage
mill. Then about one part gfouhd-up
egg and four parts of bread crumbs
are mixed and rubbed together until
the egg is well divided. This bread
makes up about one-half the food given
a, ,I G,ly "A n
weeks old For the first week or two
egg Is mixed with IT, and after that
finely sifted beef scraps.
When the chicks are first placed IN
the brooders bread crumbs are sprin-
killed. upon the floor among the grit. Att
er tho first day the food Is given in tin
plates, four TO each brooder. The chicks
are given access TO the plates for fVe
minutes and the plates are then re-
moved. In a few days light wooden
troughs are substituted for plates.
The chicks are fed four times a day
IN these troughs until they outgrow
them, as follows:
Bread and egg or scrap early In the
morning. at half past o'clock DRY
grain either pin head oats, crushed
wheat, millet seed or cracked corn. Az
] O'clock dry grain again, and the last
feed of the day IL OF the bread WIN
egg or scrap,
Between the four feeds In the ,aus
or troughs, millet seed, pin head Eats
aud fine cracked corn. and later whole
wheat, are scattered In the chan on
the floor for the chicks TO scratch for.
This makes them exercise, and care Is
taken that they do not find the food
too easily.
one condition Is made imperative in
our feeding The food Is never TO re-
main IN the troughs more than five
minutes before the troughs are cleaned
and removed. This lnsures sharp appe-
titles at meal time and guards against
inactivity which comes from oYerieed-
ing.
Charcoal, granulated bone, oyster
shell and sharp grit are always kept BY
them. as Well as clean water. Man
Colds are cut into slices which they
soon learn TO peck When the grass
begins TO grow they are able 70 get
green food from the yards. II the
small yards are worn out before they
are moved 10 the range, green cut clover
or rape Is fed 10 them.
After the chicks are moved TO
the range they are fed In the same man"
ner. except that the morning anu eve
ming feed il made Of corn meal, MD
dlings or wheat bran, TO which one
tenth as much beef scrap is added. The
other two feeds are Of wheat and
cracked corn one year We fed double
the amount Of scrap all through the
growing season and had the April and
May pullets well developed and laying
through September and october. To our
sorrow they nearly all molted In De
cember. and that month and JanuaNy
were nearly bare OF eggs Maine EN-
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