Show CHICK LOSS IS unnecessary timely and important points in poultry raising railing given by missouri college expert though only half the chicks hatched in missouri are raised to maturity most of tile the losses are preventable according to af M A seaton of the missouri college of agriculture at the present time under unde ordinary form farm conditions the colony system of brooding chicks Is preferable th the e temperature should be about degrees fahrenheit when the chicks are placed in the brooder and then gradually decreased to suit the be need of the chicks it if ample roum Is supplied tile the chicks will regulate their heat by either crowding closer to the stove or by moving away an abundant supply of clean fresh water should be kept before tile chicks at all times in n some form of sul suitable table drinking fountains do not put the water in an open vessel such as a saucer or the chicks will get into it and become chilled feeding is a very important factor in chick raising do not feed the chick until it la Is fifty hours old or older as the yolk Is taken into the chicks body just before it Is hatched and so ample food Is s present for some time the first feed should be composed of a few grains of clean sand or fine chick grit fed in a flat pan or spread on a cardboard this should be followed I 1 with a feed of rolled oats and bread crumbs and for the first few days of the chicks life they should be given three or four feeds of rolled oats and one feed of hard boiled eggs the rolled oats oata should gradually he replaced with some form of grain mixture either cornmeal chick food or any form of fine grain ro mixture liture A dry mash composed of equal weights of 0 bran cornmeal and shorts should be added to the ration at the end of the first week this mash should ie be fed sparingly at first and then gradually increased feed little and often and feed all the feed in a dry form milk Is an excellent feed for chicks and they should be fed abundant supply of it at all times it prevents many intestinal diseases supplies vl famines alnes tar and also Is a good source of protein which Is necessary la in chick rations |