Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
FEEDING IMPORTANT
ITEM IN THE RAISING
OF YOUNG CHICKENS


The enormous development of the
poultry industry through artificial
Matching and rearing of fowls has CON
tinually evolved new questions as to
how to obtain the best results. The
up-to-date poultryman is ever on the
alert with eye and brain to detect ne%
ideas OF course, the net result in view
is to obtain the quickest returns for
our money and labor.
We have long ago decided and prac-
ticed that the Single Comb White Leg
horns properly bred is the breed to do
it with Now, as to the manner Next,
If not equal to the open front curtain
poultry house for adult fowls, we con-
slider the colony house system for
chicks. There used to be an idea that
any old thing, box or barrel would do
for the little fellows but the wise poul-
tryman has exploded that idea.
If new methods Will, at the expense of
a few dollars, take 100 chicks, bring
them to selling or laying period fun 60
days sooner besides rearing much
better and larger per cent Of chicks,
surely small OUTLAY OF a few dollars 8
not worth considering in the game.
We cheerfully divide our experience
The Northwest Poultry Journal, and
give YOU an idea how the colony houses
for chicks are built Each house is six
by ten. six feet in front, Ave in the
rear, and they are built on skids (made
like sled runners and they can be read
lily moved by hitching a horse to them
Such q house will accommodate at
Matching time lao chicks Now, chicks
double and triple in size very rapidly
but in three weeks the sex in Leghorns
can he easily distinguished. and at that
age anyhow the sexes should he sep
arated which leaves the flock nearly
one half less and plenty of room lcfI
for the growing pullets.
What do we gain by such an arrange
ment2 First plenty of room for the
chick The air never gets bad or over
heated. and whether it rains or SHOWS
the little fellows can scamper around
inside and continue to grow. same as
outdoors Second we have continual
fresh ground, as one stand gets foul,
we hitch our old mare To the skids and.
IN Vely few minutes the chicks have
fresh run
AS to results That's what we are
after, and YOU can judge for yourself.
While other people are fooling around
with antiQuated methods and the big
breeds which have to he boarded free
all winter before beginning to lay to-
ward spring, when eggs are twenty
cents a dozen, our Le2horns under our
management of handling, begin laying
in September and October. when eggs
are 40 cents TO 30 cents a dozen. and
Keep it right up all winter
Is this all mere theory2 Not a bit of
It, 1t goes on right along at the Rocky
Ford Poultry farm. We have had pull
lets lay at four months of age. and
Young cockerels weighing two pounds
each al nine weeks.
What brought all this abouts 4 Quie5
maturing (fresh air. bred to lay strain,
raised by the colony house advantages,
and premises kept in a sanitary condi-
tionl
Now for the hens roaming the fields
al viii and carefully housed at night.
such a flock or matings come from the
shell lively and strong We have no
pens for special use and don't want
them. for yarder fowls lack the vigor
and stamina of the free range fowls
and the percentage Of egg fertility is
low. and the chick weak
We repeat: In fact there is only on
way according 10 our experience to
properly raise young stock UP to the
maturing point and handle breeding
hens and that is by having colony and
laying houses scattered among cherry
trees and in green alfalfa pastures,
where they can roam at will over the
fields and pick up all the greens. bugs.
insects etc necessary for develop
ment and fertile strong Matching eggs.
The way and style as just how we
/ hatch and brood chicks We hope tn
( editor VIII allow us space to tell Won
some time in the future Northwest
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