Show young chicks need more of mineral Mir feral constituents constituent ts young chicks need more inore of the mineral constituents found in wheat bran than do mature fowls and the mashes fed them are accordingly usually made to contain more of it with this change and due regard to the size of the particles or of food that baby chicks can eat there need be little or no difference between a growing chick mash and one fed to laying liens hens the chick mash recommended by the new jersey station consists of three ahree parts of wheat bran to one each of sifted ground oats cornmeal com meal flour wheat anti and finely ground meat scrap with one part of bran instead of three and no necessity for sifting the ground oats or finely grinding the meat scrap this would make as good a laying mash as could pa compounded the above would make a very good mash to be fed with equal parts of cracked corn and wheat after four to six weeks chicks will eat cat coarser cracked corn and whole wheat and do not need to have the hulls alfted from ground oats an excess of meat scrap or of green food might cause some looseness of tile the bowels whatever the cause it should be corrected added amount of wheat would not avail |