Show ATTENTION TO CHICKS WARM BROODER AND PROPER RA TION ARE ESSENTIAL I 1 I 1 egg eggs should bo be from carefully 8 so lecter stock well fed and housed to produce sturdy stock what to feed uly DR 1 SAN noriN holden ma mava copy right 1911 there in 1 lear 1 fuss in rearing of 0 chicks than a fow few years ago A warm warra brooder sonio tino fine litter cracked grain and grit with perhaps a mash con ground grain ond and animal food and ou should raise 90 per cent of tho the chicks every chick deserves to bo be well hatched of sturdy ancestry ance atry and properly hearod tho egg eggs should bo be from carefully selected stock well housed and fed to produce chicks that stand adverse conditions tho the hen lien or cincu astor should do its part well sell as many a it slip la to made between tho the hying laying of tho the egg and tho the hatching of tho chick I 1 prefer tho tile lamp heated brooder to olther either tho the hen lien or the heatless brooder for while somo hone hens do good brooding and in boino somo a jasons you can raise good chicks ith tho the tireless fireless brooder yot yet for easy successful brooding of 60 50 chicks my preference it I 1 for tho the heated brooder tho the chicks when MY ere are taken from tho the hen or machine nd and trans berred to the well warmed brooder I 1 prefer it should be fully as warm un der the hover as was tho the incubator then if it too hot tho the chicks can bo be spread out into tho the less warm part of tho the brooder floor or if at any hour the temperature drops tho the chicks can retire to a warmer marmer place under the hover what to feed hem hern at the start tho the chicks get cool coot wa ter to drink and only tho the food that to 1 in the tile barn m waste ante Is used to cover tho the brooder floor ideally they need no food and what hat they find la tho the waste L plenty when a few days old they n med led light feeding of cracked wheat heat good fish or beet beef scrap personally I 1 have found nothing better than i d good grado of fish scrap added at eight days of age and finely cracked dry corn at ten ton to twelve days it is important that all chick feed be sound sweet and clean avoid musty corn scrap that Is fit only for or fertilizer and stale state drinking water vater unless there Is some grit in the tha barn waste that Is used for brooder floor it should bo be supplied ch chicks ecka need a warm place to retire to when cold an open room to get out into and exercise as well as a grass run to range over when two weeks meeks old close confinement to hot brooders tends to give leg weakness ue akness As the chicks grow in age the heat of the brooder can be reduced to about SO 80 degrees too many chicks are hatched that are doomed to die because from weak stock or incubated wrongly ron gly but the blame ls is usually baidon laid on the brooder yearling hens ens make the best beat of breed ers |