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Show FEEDING THE YOUNG CHICKS Nothing Given Until Youngsters Are Two Days Old Whole Grain Fed at End of Eight Weeks. (By C. E. BROWN, Minnesota Experiment Experi-ment Station.) We do not feed little chicks before they are two days old, but from the beginning give them water. During this period the hen is given her food out of reach of the little ones. The first feeds are given sparingly every two hours, and are usually wet mashes. After the third day we feed some of the cracked grains, a little at a time, till, at the end of the fifth or sixth day we are giving the three feeds of the cracked grain. Occasionally we give a little whole wheat, and by the end of eight weeks we are feeding most of the grains whole. If the chicks are unable un-able to get worms or Insects in sufficient suffi-cient quantities, they must be supplied with a substitute, such as milk or beef scraps. Green feed is given in the form of finely chopped lettuce, a piece of potato or turnip or mangel when they are not able to run outside on the grass. |