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Show CARING FOR LITTLE CHICKS Cooked, Chopped Eggs Are Good for Them at Start Give Free Access to Sand or Grit. In regard to the feeding of chicks and this, of course, applies (o chicks with the hen as well as those In (ho brooderpermit mo to sBy that the firsi duy or I wo, when they are old enough to eat, cooked (hopped egK are about the best thing for them. Hut before feeding (his to them I suggest that you feed the old hen well, or else she will gobble It up before the chicks get a look at It. After that time give lliem a Rood chick feed, writes Harry Haven In tha Chicago Dally News. After the first week give them ground oats or cracked crack-ed oats, cracked wheat and sifted cracked corn and boiled broken rice with while bread and graham bread. Also give (hem meat scraps which contain con-tain botli dry and fresh cut bono. A chhk can be perhaps kept allvsi on cracked corn, as half (he farmers ' do. Hut that Is not what should be done by the man or woman who wants (hem to weigh fully three or three and a half pounds at ten weeks or, at lesst, H weeks old. To accomplish this you must work them for all they are worth; hut I do not advise you to feed cracked rorn alone, as they get tired of It the same as we would of bread. I,'t them have free access to coarse sand or any kind ol grit. Do not leave any holes open at night In your house or brooders for rats to crawl through, as they are very dangerous around your chicks. |