| Show FEEDING BABY CHICKS by professor byron alder poultry husbandman utah agricultural college aront iuni at diw W a chicks should receive no feed of any kind until they are forty elret to sixty hours old for the first two or thrle ahn e weeks feed little and anti often five or sit six tinus A P day Is N about right for the first four or fl flo ve days feed eed a mixture of relied oats two parts rubbed fine and anti wheat bran one part with a light sprinkling of fino grit or cle clein clen n fine sand wind if milk wilk ij available keep it before them but keep keel it perfectly fresh and cie clein in if U milk is not available feed eed bard hard boiled eggs rubbed fine at the rate of about two egsa egas to each hundred clucks chicks a day keep freab kocl att tr where they can drink often about the fifth day adda add a little cracked wheat and cricked corn gradually reducing the amount 0 of oat besl mal and bran leave out the bran after the seventh day and keep a d di j masa composed of bran one hund hundred cd pounds shor shorter tir fifty pounds chopped barley or oats twenty five pounds and fine talt one pound before them ina in a hopper if milk is not available stop feeding tile eggs and add twenty five pounds of beef a scraps aps after two weeks eliminate the ott me meal al and anti a scratch of one hundred pounds wheat and fifty pounds chopped corn should be fed klep dry alfalfa leavo grit and fine charcoal always before them when the chicks are three or four weeks old turn them out in the orchard or rive give them the run of the farm they can get plenty of green feed keep tho the gnash or scratch cited before them to in hoppers waln wh n they tr aft on free range so that they will not have to go hungry give the young chicks a shady run keep fr arsh sh foater before them all the time keep a close watch for lice and mites and proceed to destroy them if you find any |
