Show 1 I 1 KEEP E I 1 P THE GROWING CHICKS WELL FED several rations economical and effective growing chicks should be well fed to insure health protection against disease rapid economical gains while they ire are young and quality flavor to the meat of broilers and friers says bays 0 0 ufford extension at the colorado agricultural college A simple economical and effective gr owing growing ration for the farm floel flock can be ande ufford suggests from the following ingredients the scratch mixture may be cracked corn of a size suitable for the ehrck whole wheat or a mixture of equal parts of these two groins grains A mash mixture may be composed of the following feeds he says saya fine yellow cornmeal corn meal 1 0 BR 51 pounds bran 25 pounds shorts 25 pounds meat meal or ment scrap 10 pounds bone meal 4 41 pounds poi indi I 1 pound ground wheat may be substituted for ane bran and shorts if desired when milk Is 1 available in any form it t can very profitably be fed to the lock flock it Is added the mash should he be kept in suitable non nan wasting feeders allowing the chicks free across access to it at fill all times the extension says and feeding space should be provided so that at least one fourth of the flock dock can feed at one time the grain can be fed ced in hoppers morning or evening in amounts that the birds eat can clean up readily or fed in a litter of straw that should be changed occasionally as aa a sanitary precaution green feed Is a very important part of the chicks diet when a green range lawn clippings alfalfa lettuce or other greens are not available 6 5 to 10 pounds of alfalfa leaf meal should be added to each pounds of the above mash mixture rotation of hen yard has many advantages divide the poultry range in two a suggests the poultry department at the ohio state university and rotate the tha lock flock with green crops if the lock flock Is permitted to cover the entire range all the time they will soon kill bill all the vegetation around the poultry house this will make it necessary to provide green feed from another source and at greater expense the yard will also become unsanitary and often a sea of mud after a hard rain early fall sown rye provides en an ideal tall fall supply of green feed for poultry rape kape sown in early summer will provide succulence in the ration a large part of the summer it can be pastured as soon as it Is three or four inches high half the yard vard Is given to range and pasture for the loch flock while the other halt half Is in preparation for another crop A woven wire fence alve feet high will serve to keep the chickens off the gi owing gowing crop on the range the fence should be staked well at the bottom for usually more chickens go under fences than over them hen fen that molts early not a good producer contrary to the opinion of some poultry men the hen that molts early usually does not begin laying again early in the winter says F E andrew of the new york state college of agriculture ri rn en fact the early holters usually require more time to renew their feathers than the late inte holters mol I 1 the early molting bolting also indicates a lack of high production product inn ability if the egg production goes down slowly and a few hens start bolting molting molt ln each week it Is a safe practice to cull those individuals however if a large percentage of tile the nock flock suddenly st stops 0 Ps laying find and begins to molt it la Is best to check on the management of the flock and would not necessarily mean that nil all of tile lie hens were culls mr andrews advises sudden changes of feed a bad infestation fe of lice itce or mites or insufficient amounts amount 9 of feed and water may throw the flock into a molt |