Evening star., 1918-05-05
GOOD WAR RAT|0NS'
FOR BABY CHICKS
Johnnycake, Bread Crumbs,
Rolled Oats, Fed Five Times
Daily, Keep Them Growing.

Give the young chicks q good start
in life by feeding carefully prepared,
nourishing food. Feeding should be-
gin any time after they are thirty-six
to forty-eight hours old, whether they
are with the hen or in a brooder. and
for the first month or two they may be
given food as often as flve times day.
Baked johnnycake composed Of the
following ingredients in the proper
ttons named is a very good feed for
young chicks: One dozen infertile
eggs or one pound Of sifted beef scrap
to ten pounds OF corn meal; add enough
m milk to make a pasty mash: and one
crumbs may be mixed with hard-boiled
eggs, making about one-fourth Of thu
mixture eggs. or rolled oats may be
used in place Of the bread crumbs.
Feed Little and Often.
Feed the bread crumbs, rolled oats. or
5ohnnycake mixtures fve times daily
stitute for one or two feeds Of the mix
ture finely cracked grains Of one part
by weight OF cracked wheat, six parts
hnely cracked corn, two parts pinhead
oatmeal or hulled oats and one part
kafir corn. to which about S per cent OF
cracked peas or broken rice and per
cent Of charcoal, millet or rape seed
may be added. A commercial chick
feed may be substituted IL desired,
The above ration can be fed until the
chicks are two weeks old, when they
should be placed on grain and q dry or
wet mash mixture.
After the chicks are ten days old q
good growing mash. composed of two
parts by weight OF bran, two parts mid
dlings. two parts corn meal, one part
rolled oats and 10 per cent sifted beef
scrap may be placed in a hopper and
left before them at all times. The mash
may be fed either wet or dry; IL wet
only enough moisture (either milk OF
feed crumbly, but in no sense slopnv.
When this growing mash or mixture is
not used a hopper containing bran
81, snonia tid. be accessible t6 the chickens at
When one has only a few chickens
1t Is less trouble to purchase the nre-
pared chick feeds. but where a con-
siderable number are reared It is
sometimes cheaper to buy the finely
cracked grains and mix them together.
many chick feeds contain a large
Quantity Of grit and may contain
grains OF poor quality. SO that they
should be carefully examined and the
quality guaranteed before they are
purchased.
AS soon as tho chickens will eat the
whole wheat. cracked corn and other
grains-usually in about eight weeks
the small-sized chick feed can be
eliminated In addition to the above
reeds the chickens growth can be has
tened II they are given sour milk,
skim milk or buttermilk to drink.
Mixture for Hoppers.
Growing chickens kept on a good
range may be given all their feed
In hopper. mixing six parts, by
weight. Of cracked corn with one part
Of wheat and one part kaflr corn in
one hopper and the dry mash for
chickens in another. In addition feed
two parts Of the scratch mixture in the
form OF sprouted oats until the chick
ems are three or four months old, when
dry whole oats can be used. The beef
scrap may be left out Of the dry mash
and FED In separate hopper, SO that
the chickens can eat all of this feed
they desire. If the beef scrap is to be
fed separately 1t is advisable to wait
until the chicks are ten days old. al
though many poultrymen put tho beef
scrap before the young chickens at the
start without bad results.
Chickens confined to small Yards
should always be supplied with green
feed, such as lettuce. sprouted oats,
Alfalfa or clover. but the best place to
raise chickens successfully is on a
good range where no extra green feed
Is required. Fine charcoal, grit and
oyster shell should be kept before the
chickens at all times, and cracked or
ground bone may be fed where the
chickens are kept In small bare yards,
but the latter feed Is not necessary for
chickens that have a good range.