Show way to raise chicks 1 purdue university gives the following points for the proper y raising and brooding of chicks hatching only from mature selected brood tested males and females brooding chicks with a hard coal stove in a portable brooder house on new disease free soil reducing brooder temperature from degrees at edge of hover after the first week as rapidly as tho the comfort of chicks permits getting chicks out on the ground when a week old even though weather Is chilly giving nothing to drink but skim milk buttermilk or semisolid for at beasi the first month giving no feed or drink till chicks are 48 hours old for the first few days it Is safest to feed only the finely cracked chick grains giving only what Is cleaned up in about twenty minutes giving no mash the first five days after this start gradually on mash always preceding the mash with a grain feed to pre vent ent overfeeding over feeding on the mash placing chicks on full mash feed after the second week and reducing at same time grain w feeds to only two or three times g per day |