The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-26
Food That Will Make Baby Chicks Grow

Clemson College, May 23-Do no
stunt the growth of the young poultry
stock by undertaking, is the advice
given bv T. G. Hare, poultry husband
man of Clemson College, who says it is
important for farmers to feed baby
chicks well and to continue feeding tc
pulets well throughout the summer,
in order to have them IN condition fot
fall and winter laying, which is mos,
profitable Prof. Hare gives all neces'
sary feeding information in the follow
ing article:
One OF the best foods for baby chicks
when they mead nourishment at "A to
30 hours old is a mixture of two hard
boiled eggs cut up 6oe, TWO broken
crackers and small handful of oat-
meal. Roll with the hand, mix thor
oughly and scatter little on q clean
card board.
But Go not throw the first food in lit
ter, because It is necessary first to
teach the baby chicks what to eat.
Otherwise they will eat any small sub
stance. This applies to feeding mix
ture of small grains as we'll.
Feed the egg mixture six times the
first day and four times daily thereaf-
ter. Place before the chicks a shallow
box containing equal parts OF wheat
bran and oatmeal. This box must be
kept filled for at least two weeks, al
lowing the chicks to eat all tho oran-
oatmeal mash they desire.
On the second day, commence scat
tering small grains and seeds in one
inch litter (oat straw, shredded or cut
fodder, broken pine straw or cut alfalfa)
10 make the chicks exercise. The fol-
lowing is an excellent mixture OF
scratching grains for baby chicks.
Equal parts cracked wheat, cracked
rice, cracked corr and millet seed, add
ed TO lend variety 10 the food. The OBJ
iect OF feeding small grain is to make
the chicks scratch, work and thereby
keep healthy, dry mash is to supply the
best growing foods and the more mash
the chicks eat the faster they will
grow, provided one keeps them eXer-
cising By scratching for grain and run
ming over good range.
The dry mash can be changed at the
end of TWO weeks to this cheaper mix
ture. Wheat bran, 5 pounds; wheat
middlipgs, pounds; cotton seed meal,
2 pounds. Total. 20 pounds. The cot
ton seed meal must be good feeding
meal, Keep this mixture dry before
the chicks constantly.
Buttermilk and sour skim milk are
palatable and nutritious foods for baby
chicks and mature fowls. Give them
all they will drink and miS up once
daily a moist mash of the dry mixture
and the sour milk product.
The grain mixture may be changed
to whole wheat, cracked corn, cane
seed and other larger grains as the
chicks increase N size. Feed the
grain morning and evening in litter
and the dry mash in hopper.
The only satisfactory way to supply
green iced and green range is to plough
up the ground, drop a small piece OF
Bermuda grass sod every Is inches,
turn the next furrow over the chunks
of sod and untinue until the range is
sodded. This one application will pro-
duce Bermuda sod within year, pro
vided the soil is in good state OF fer
tility.
TO solve the green feed problem COM
pletely one has simply to harrow the
Bermuda sod in September and scat
ter over it = pounds per acre of burr
clover seed in the burr. This will af-
ford the fowls green winter range
s.nd will eliminate for all time the
necessity of sowing or sprouting oats
or planting rape, tu:nips or other veg
etable foods
All citizens of the State are invited
to consult Prof. Hare about their poul-
try pobiems.