The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-20
KEEP CHICKS
GROWING WELL
Roomy coops, Cleanliness, Good
Feed and Water, Shade and
Fresh Range Essential.

The enthusiasm with which many
poultry raisers, particularly begin
ners, start in the spring with young
chicks sometimes lags as the sea,
son advances and the chicks get
old enough to shift for themselves.
If care is neglected at this period,
however, success is improbable.
The baby chicks may be smart fell
lows from strong, vigorous, parent
stock, and they may have been
brooded carefully for the first two
or three weeks, but unless they re-
ceive proper care and management
during their later growing period
they will not develop properly, and
many of them will be lost by sick
ness and disease. This is the time
ly warning made by poultry men Of
the United States department of
agriculture in Farmers Bulletin
I'LL, Management of Growing
Young Chicks" published by the
department, in which is given the
essentials to proper growth and de-
velopment of chicks. The bulletin
is written briefly and in simple
terms for beginners, especially
members of boys and girls poultry
clubs.
Provide Suitable Food and Care.
The chief essentials to the prop.
er growth of chicks, according to
the bulletin, are good coops, or
houses, cleanliness, proper feed and
water, shade, and free range. Grow
ing chicks should be provided with
large, roomy coops or houses, which
will give them comfortable place
to stay at night and during storm
weather. The bulletin suggests no
particular kind of house, but states
it should be so built that it will pro-
vide the chicks with plenty of light,
pure air and sunshine, and protect
them from dampness and storms Of
all kinds. 1t should be arranged so
that it can be cleaned easily and
frequently, which is very impor-
tant.
Chicks should never be crowded
in brood coops, for crowding will
cause them to become overheated,
resulting in improper growth and
sometimes in dead chicks. A good
house can be built from dry-goods
box or a piano box, which can be
covered with tar paper, the total
cost being small.
Sickness or disease usually starts
in unclean quarters, and in such
places lice and mites are always
more plentiful, the bulletin says.
The coops should be cleaned and
nd MIR y,
shavings, chaff, or sand put on the
floor. Examine the chicks and
houses often for lice and mites, and
if found they should be gotten rid
of at once. Farmers Bulletin 111C
gives directions for fighting lice and
mites.
Feed Right for Rapid Growth.
The three kinds of feeds mos
necessary for rapid growth are
grain feed, green feed, and DIR,
mash. A grain mixture should bt
fed night and morning, giving a!
large a quantity as the chicks viii
eat clean, but no more. A goot
mixture for growing chicks consists
of three parts cracked corn, twt
parts wheat, and two parts hullet
oats. Kafir corn or rolled or hullet
barley may be- substituted for hull
ed oats. A supply of fresh greer
food is almost as necessary as grail
for growing chicks. They Obtain
plenty of it if they have free range
but if kept in confinement, lawI
grass, beet tops. cabbage, lettuce
or other such green feed, should b,
supplied regularly.
A dry mash should be kept be
fore growing chicks at all time!
after they are three or four week
old. 1t is best to feed it in a hop
per inside the building, or wher
it will not be exposed to rain O
wet. The bulletin suggests the fol