The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-18

had my coops all ready with the
chan from the hay loft in one end
and sand sprinkled In front the door.
put the three biddies one in each
coop and gave one thirty-six and each
Of the two others thirty FIVE
AS 1t happened had given
the smallest hen the thirty-six
but wish you could see. how she
cared for them. The coops were warm
and comfortable with plenty OF fresh
air and il it had been necessary they
could have handled more. They could
easily handle forty In early spring and
fifty after the weather is more set
tied.
Caring for New Chicks.
When they were twenty-four hours
old I gave them their first feed. They
had clean water. sweet milk. and bran
before them all the, time and the pre-
pared chicken feed was scattered in
the yards a very little at a time This
chick feed is properly balanced as a
food, supplies bone, muscle and feath-
or making properties. fed and wa
tered them every two hours for the
f1rst few days. It is surprising how
much bran they will eat and If left
without 1t day and then given a
fresh supply they will leave other food
for the bran. These coops and wards
are moved every night on a new patch
or clover, this you see gives them all
the green food necessary. After the
coops and yards were moved the dishes
We're all gathered up and placed in a
large pan of water and in the morning
bright and early / was up washing
THESE and getting ready their feed to
be given them as soon as / thought
1t proper time to let the little fellows
out. So many people feed the little
day old chicks bread soaked in milk
sometimes In sloppy condition. They
know no better and will eat 1t, some
live and greater number die Of
bowel trouble, Indigestion and other
disorders. If you wish to feed 1t be
sure the bread is dried well in the
oven and rolled and then enough milk
mixed with 1t to make 1t crumbly
then feed 1t once or twice a day with
the prepared chick feed and it would
perhaps work nicely for a change. /
kept mine on dry feeding for the first
three weeks and at this time the old
biddies with the chicks began to lay
so put them into the hen house, sep
arated the pullets from the cockerels
and began to feed the pullets so as to
have them. ready for winter eggs and
to feed the cockerels for broilers at
eight weeks
Feeding.
fed the pullets food that thought
would grow bone and muscle rather
than flesh for from three weeks on
they take on fat very readily. They
had bran, sweet milk and water as
before and this prepared chick feed
is changed some, having in 1t nearly
all the small grains, and this was
given three times a day and once in
a while / would give them a cr1mbly
mash Of corn meal ground oats and
bran. l did not give them as much
beef scrap as / did the broilers. And
as said before they had green food
every day. 1 fed the cocl1erels a little
oftener, feeding them little at a time,
and five times a day, as I wanted them
ready for market in the next five
weeks. All their food was moistened
with milk except the corn which was
fed night and morning. They were
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then changed the bran to shorts
and little later added a little more
corn meal and little linseed meal.
always giving plenty Of beef scrap.
always liked to have their crops
stuffed at night. If they were not
fed lest during the forenoon and more
later in the day and in doing this
was sure Of a full crop when they went
to roost.
always salt their feed the same as
| would our own food for the table.
These chicks were never out of these
yards If they had been allowed to
roam there would have been large mus
Giles in the legs and their flesh would
be hard but fed as / fed them their
flesh was tender as that of a SQUAD. AT
the end of eight weeks they were
weighing one and one-half pounds and
one and three quarters and few had
reached the two pound mark. This
is the time to sell them for at this
time they are 25 cents a pound and
they do not take on flesh as fast from
now on and the price is going down