Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-18
Feeding Young Chicks.

1t 10 very important that little chicks
should be started right by supplying
them with an easily digested food, by
feeding them regularly and often. and
very small quantities at q time.
We often nee the expression feed all
thew will eat up CLEAN" that is q mistake
with little chicks They will eat up
clean more than Is good for them.
Feel the crops in the morning, II food
remains In It. It Is an indication Of over
feeling.
inst what to feed baby chicks has been
a subject very much discussed. many
experiments have been made, and there
are a great many different opinions upon
the subject.
One thing certain they must be fed
something that will make them grow,
develop bone and muscle and to promote
the proper growth. The right feed must
be given OF the frightfui mortality will
go on. seaso, after season with Our
our young chicks.
Our grandmothers used to feed corn
meal and water, throw II down on the
ground. and in a very few moments it
was trampled and fouled until il was ut
terly unfit for any chicken, aud portions
not cleaned up were left to decay, and
then be eaten, and unfortunately many
are still following in Grandmother foot.
steps. But really, to consider it serious
ly, isn't stufing aud gorging on raw n
meal and water mixed to a mushy. slop.
py mass, just about the worst food one
can imagine for a little chick. Its surely
not natures way. 1.-The early bird catch
es the worm you know" SO Mrs. Biddy,
when left to herself, rises early in the
morning, gets her family together and
starts out for the day, here a little blade
OF grass, there a tiny seed, perhaps
scratched up from your best flower bed
and o joy! a nice fat worm, what a
scramble! and so the mother hen works,
calls and scratches all day long, and the
food is gathered and eaten, bit by hit. no
gorging there, and no sloppy inesses,
hence first Of all to initiate natures way
w must feed natures feeds, and feed
little at a time and often.
Little chickens. big chickens or any
kind of a chicken can't live and he what
it ought to be OIL one kind of feed alone,
they must have a variety.
The four G's are good things to re.
member when feeding any kind Of poul.
try, grain, grit, green's aud gravy.
Dry grains ground is much better and
safer than mashes and messes even if one
has nothing but corn, why have it
ground to meal then wet to be fed. Bet
ter feed the meal dry as wet. bu, better
still just get the corn cracked fine and
feed dry. Corn alone is not a good feed,
as it is too fat forming, and one want
development of bone ond muscle
Wheat is excellent or some claim kaffir
corn is better than wheat. Dat mea
and millet seed are also excellent.
Grit, fine and sharp, must also lie pro
vided. Crit is the chickens teeth, hence
a chicken needs grit As much as a no,
needs teeth. Don't think SAND or grave
is just AS good, for it isn't. grit can b'
purchased for 60 cents per hundred "A
Archia's seed store in Sedalia, and 1GI
pounds will rear 1000 chickens past tn,
danger line, M why try to ecorno lie OF
grit and lose chicks enough to pay for
great many sacks of grit. Remembe
. sand or gravel is not grit.
Chicks, until they are four or five day
. old, should be fed just a very little at
{ time, about a hand full. a small han
full, to every forty chicks every fou
p hours or better still every two hours fee
a light half hand full, but this ofte
4 takes time that a busy house wife don
Il always have time to give.
!, A small table spoon full af grit t
II about fifty chickens should be give
daily. Mix it with the graiusy
, Have just as much variety in grains q
YOU can possibly get and mixed so as I
give the chick a properly balance
ration, that is the right amount of bon
and muscle forming food and the prop,
" proportion of fat food.
X The following is a correct balance
q ration. Fix by measure equal parts
~ wheat and kanir corn. half as much cor
y as wheat, three-eiglitsN as much mill
'" seed as wheat, and the same amount
!" ott meal as millet seed. OF co,rs
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