The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-12


 you Cut an opening 12 inches square in the top of the brooder. Stand the three bricks edgewise on the floor and on the mplace the length of furnace pipe Insert the lantern through the on them place the length of furnace pipe, allowing it to hang down half way Bend a heavy wire into T. shaped hook to support the lantern handle from top of brooder. With chisel cut four-inch hole at the cen ter of the piece of galvanized iron to allow the fumes of the lantern to es- cape, and place this sheet over the 12-inch hole above the lantern. Take off a board six inches. wide from either end at the floor for the chicks to en- ter and leave the brooder. Cover this inside with strip of blanket or old clothes, and cut three-inch slits every four inches through which the chicks can pass The curtain is to confine the heat in cool room.
 Cover the floor of the brooder with two inches of clover chaff or short straw. Fill the lantern and light it. A moderate flame is all that is reuired to warm the brooder to 90 degrees on the floor. This breeder is intended to be operated in small pen or run, the floor of which is covered with two inches of short straw The chicks can leave the brooder if they will peep and crowd around the lantern Increase or decrease the heat until the chicks rest near the opening of the prooder and are contented.
 FEEDING THE CHICKS
 Remove the baby chicks to the heated brooder in the morning. Cover the insiae of basket with blanket to prevent their being chilled. Place them in the wal1nest portion of the brooder. or near the steve, and for the first and second days whe nthe stove brooder is employed use board F inches wide to keep them near the heat.
 Boil some eggs hard; cut in small par tlcles (discarding the shells) and make this mixture: Equal parts, by volume of hard boiled eggs, relied oats and dry bread crumbs. Scatter little of this egg food on board and tap the board with the finger nail to attract attention. The chicks will soon commence eating
 Feed this mixture sparingly six times the first day, removing the board, and re- placing the chicks in the brooder or near the stove when each meal is over. The second day fill small box or trough with equal measures of dry wheat bran and rolled oats. Crumple the oats in tho hand to break the lareg flakes Keep this dry mash constantly before the chicks until the yare weaned. Feed the egg mixture three times daily the first week The third day commence feeding three times aaily a mixture of equal measures of cracked wheat, screened cracked corn, c.umpled rolled oats. millet seed rice, an done-half measure each or chick size charcoal and chick-size grit or sifted creek sand. A commercial chick food can be substituted for the aoove mixture. It is scattered in the litter or the pen to make the chicks kick and exercise Supply fresh water b1ittermi'l< or sour skim from the start. Buttermilk and sour skim milk cannot be surpassed as chick foods. The acid in the sour milk product not only aids digestion and increases the appetite, but it is a prevent i've and corrective of diarrhoea.
 From first week to wearning time the chicks receive the bran-oats dry mash constantly, and three times daily feed of scratching grain in the litter Twice a week cut some cooked meat in small pieces and feed the chicks lberally. An excellent wet mas his made of equal weights of sifted ground oats, cornmeal and wheat middlings mixed to a crumbly consistency with butternilk. Feed this mash at noon daily. Chicks that run on good range cannot be overfed the proper foods but bear in mind that chicks will not grow on cracked grain 1 Or cornneal alone.
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