Show TEACHING CHICKS TO ROOST difficult matter to keep little fellows clean if they are permitted to remain on an floor it Is often advisable to teach the chicks to roost when eight to twelve weeks old when they are allowed to remain on the floor it la Is difficult to keep them clean and to keep them from crowding it if wide roosts boosts three to four inches are used there Is but little it any more danger of crooked breasts than if the chicks are allowed to remain on the floor the chicks can generally be taught to roost by putting the perches near the floor and placing with them one or two old hens or older chicles chicks that are in the habit of ro it if this plan Is inconvenient or does not lot prove effective the chicks may bo be placed on the perches after dark for 6 few nights until they have learned to go there on their own accord |