Milford chronicle., 1916-02-11
PROPERLY CARING FOR
The LITTLE CHICKS
By J. H. McFAUL, Jr.
LII RfPhks ReSe1Vedl

I their development The chick starter,
however, is generally fed until the
youngsters reach the age of about six
or eight weeks, when the intermediate
| food is substituted.
While the bran, bone meal and beef
scrap will do much toward the early de-
velopment of the youngsters, it is not
sufficient to take care of the chick until
it reaches maturity. 1t must therefore
be substituted by something of far more
nutritive value for the proper growth
and development of the chick as it con-
tiuues to grow.
When the chick reaches the age of
eight weeks, these excellent baby foods
must give way to something more sub
stantial. At this age, mash foods are
far more valuable for purposes of growth
and development than grain. and while
| would not cut out the grain, yet it may
now be reduced to three feedings day,
and in addition, supply growing mash,
doing away with the bran, bone meal
and beefscrap. Both grain and grow
ing mash are necessary to the develop
ment of the chick Both have their
special function to perform; and neither
one will take the place of the other.
An excellent growing and developing
mash may be made from the following
two parts bran, one part beefscrap, one
part middlings, one part meal, or chop,
one part gluten meal, one part alfalfa
meal, to which should be added little
bone meal. This should be kept before
them at all times.
Green food has been left till last in
discussing the feeding of chicks. but
there's an old saying THE last shall be
first, and it holds true in this case.
Green food should be the first cOnsidera-
tiOn in your efforts to raise chickens,
either young or old This is absolutely
necessary to their proper development
and is as important a factor in their
growth as it is to the production of
eggs with matured fowls.
Sprouted oats are by far the least ex- !
pensive form of green food for the av-
erage person, and are unequaled in point |
of value. Give the youngsters green |
food continuously after the first week. |
If it is not possible for you to sprOut |
oats then your green food supply may /
consist of cabbage or mangels. While |
almost every person can get cabbage, |
yet its feeding comes high during the /
a y
much scarcer, which makes their feed
ing almost impossible for most persons.
Oats, on the other hand, can be had at
a reasonable price and are very easily
sprOuted. The swelling process makes
this food very cheap to feed.
Now that all of the important phases
of the feeding of young chicks have
been touched upon, one might think
. nuN oil kos hraA Sc
the case. There are many things which
beset the path of the young chick in its
for existence, the most dan
gerous of which is disease. The most
ravenous disease known to raisers of
young chicks is White Diarrhoea. When
once this gets foothold in a flock. the
chances of raising any of them are slight.
The burning question of today among
is: What will cure this
dreaded disease? a? " hile it may be proper
to ask such a question, | believe that
the right view to take is, how to pre-
vent it, rather than allow it to develop
and then seek a cure. The point that /
wish to make is, PREVENT.
This can be done and done effectively.
TO do it, however, one must start op-
sratiOns at the beginning of the chick s
ife. From the very start, only give
he little fellows water that has been
specially treated with carbolic acid. Get
he refined product (white carbolic acid)
md into each quart of drinking water
,ut eight drops of the acid and stir
thoroughly. Allow them to have no
water except the ''doctOred" kind, and
'ou will find that this dreaded disease
# white diarrhoea, or bowel trouble as
t is called, will never make its appear
nee. Continue to give this kind of
water until the youngsters are at least
hree months old and the biggest por-
ion of your poultry, or rather chick,
roubles will be eliminated.