Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-24

I corn meal and three parts ground
oats or oatmeal scalded with boiling
| milk and finally dried to a crumbly
state by the addition of middlings.
| BY making use OF these four different
mashcs the chicks can have a daily
| change of fare such as will be d.
gestible and nourishing. Twice a
week a light sprinkling of pea meal
| and linseed meal may be added to
any Of the above mashes, as they will
give additional aid as feather pro-
ducers. The mashes should be fed
in conjunction with the best brand
of dry chick feed procurable; a COM
pound which includes hempseed and
linseed, the oils of which greatly as
sIst feather production. Needless to
say, mash foods should be served IN
SUITABLY, designed troughs or on clean
feeding boards, whilst dry feed should
be scattered over litter to enable the
chicks to get the scratching exercise
which is so essential for their well
fare. anil
When the chicks have donned their
first coat OF fea thers. 1t may be truly
said that they have succeeded in
passing through the most critical
period Of their lives. The produce
ton of new plumage is, at any time,
more or less a strain on the con-
stitutions of domeS ticated fowls, anG
the least likely to survive such a
! strain under adverse conditions are
little baby chicks.
Following the frat pIumage DON
ned by The chicks, the latter will, in
due course, be called upon by Nature
to repeat the process of casting off
and replacing their clothing. AS the
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old stage of life, the DOMINIC of the
cockerel or pullet plumage, according
to sex. will begin. This mott will not
tax the constitutions of the birds SO
much as did the initial one-that is
assuming that the birds got through
the first ordeal as well cared for, ro-
bust chicks should do. 1t is very
probable that the birds which fallen
to feather kindly as baby chicks will
be in more or less denuded condl-
ton right on up to the time when
they should be DOMINIC their second
coats. The most humane service one
can do such debilitated subjects is to
hand them over to the cook-that is
provided they are meaty enough. If
the birds pass kindly through the
initial feather producing ordeal, they
should. other conditions being favor
able, pass kindly through their cock
erel or pullet mott, according to their
sex.
Feed plenty Of green succulent
vegetable food to young birds, even
though the latter may have grass
land to run over. Little chicks can
not break off the blades of grass
when such are long and tough. Cab
rage cut up finely is one of the best
vegetables foods for assisting feathe.
production. Green food in live con-
dlt1on tones up the digestive organs.
purifies the blood and keeps the
skins of the birds in a healthy condi-
ton. thereby assisting nature in her
feather producing function. Nj
agents other than right brooding,
sanitation, clean and nutritious foods,
fresh, cool water. grit, vegetao Bic
matter and exercise are necessary t.
assist chickens in donning new plum
age. Chickens whose plumage growth
will not respond to such agents may
be regarded as unsound in constitu-
ton, and the Dlaco for them is POT IN
this old world. the troubles of which
1t Is the duty of the inha bitants to
diminish rather than ipcraa ca