The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-03
Poultry
FEEDING YOUNG CHICKS.

As in feeding groWn-up chickens,
there are numerous methods for feed
ing young chicks. several of which will
be given here.
One thing is certain about young
chicks. They must be fed for at least
twenty-four hours. Some breeders do
not feed chicks until they are thirty
six hours old and. others wait until
the chicken is forty-eight hours out
of the shell. Unless you are an expert
don't try the forty-eight hour scheme.
Begin some time between twenty-four
and thirty-six hours. Very fine grit,
however. may be given them during
out their digestive organs. Stale but
clean bread moistened with sweet milk
squeezed in the hand until nearly dry,
should be the first days feed. It
should be fed frequently in small
quantities. A mixture Of stale bread
crumbs and fine oatmeal. also in milk.
squeezed nearly dry. may be fed the
second and third days after feeding
has begun.
On the fourth day the following can
be used: Four parts Of corn. crack
2 parts of oatmeal. and 2 parts Of fine
ly chopped meat scraps. This for
mula will carry the chicks along to
about the fifth week. Keep fine grit
before them all the time, and give
them some charcoal on a saucer
Though the charcoal is not absolutely
necessary. Green food should also
be given. The feed should be given
about five times a day. The floor Of
with clover leaves or with hay chaff.
and most Of the cracked grain should
be scattered in 1t. Keep the floor COW
ering clean. Don't use sand or saw.
dust.
After the sixth week the following
is a good feed. II the chicks are al
lowed to range mix sixteen quarts Of
shelled orn eight Of wheat. four Of
hulled oats. three If barley. and q half
quart Of millet seed ava some hne
meat scraps.
If the chicks are partly or wholly
confined. try this mixture: Forty
Of cracked wheat. ten Of oatmeal.
three Of millet seed. and seven Of gran
ulated meat. This with green food
will carry them along about four
weeks: after that you can select the
feeding you like best. They should
be quite hardy little chicks by that
time, and be able to work around tho
yard.
OF the methods tried and found
successful at the Maine agricultural
station for the feeding Of incubator
mixture for two Of three days follow
ing the twenty-four OF thirty-six
hours that must elapsc consists of fine
beef scraps. part to six parts rolled
oats. This must not be moistened. It
is fed with chick grit, on the brooder
floor. preferably on a clean board.
When the chicks are three or four
days old they are fed a mixture of
hard. finely broken grain, early in the
morning.
This consists Of:
IL parts of cracked wheat.
10 parts Of granulatcd oatmeal.
Is parts Of fine screened cracked
corn.
parts of fine cracked peas.
parts of broken rice.
s parts Of chick grit.
2 parts Of charcoal (chick size).
Any dry commercial chick feed may
be substituted for the broken grains
mentioned. In fact. when only a small
flock is raised the commercial feed r.
more convenient. and when the labor
of mixing is taken into account, al
most as cheap. Get sharp. fine grit
and chick charcoal with your COM
mercial product.
At o o'clock they are fed a mixture
having the following c%omposition:
a parts wheat bran.
31.2 parts Of cornmeal.
Haff part Of linsecd meal.
parts of screened beef scraps. I
part alfalfa meal.
This mixture IL scalded and then dry
rolled oats are mixed with It in the
proportion Of two parts rolled ats to
six parts Of the mixture. The reason
for mixing in this way is hat It has
been found by experience that II rolled
oats are mixed with the other mate
rails Of the mash before scalding there
ID q tendency for the mash TO be soy.
~ after It is wet.
The mash Is fed IN plates with low
Trims. and 10 left before the chicka