Show sour skim milk good beverage for chicks sour skim milk Is an excellent beverage for baby chicks according to dr W C thompson professor of poultry husbandry at the new jersey college of agriculture rutgers university it increases their appetites and is a readily digestible and highly nutritious food in itself he says the rate of growth is stimulated b by 7 feeding sour skim milk to chicks during the first six weeks and the beverage also acts as a regulator of the birds digestive systems doctor thompson points out commercial poultry men are using 6 this food in increasing quantity gatei lately y because it helps to produce good broilers quickly and aids in getting young pullets properly started fresh milk may easily be made sour by using a small amount of sour milk as a starter and adding fresh milk to it each morning it if this is set in a warm room the souring process will take place rapidly feed the sour milk in a thickened condition but first breal break the clabber by stirring so that the whey as well as the solids will be consumed baby chicks may be started on sour milk during their first day in the brooder and need be fed no water during the entire six weeks provided there Is plenty of th thu milk on hand this forces all the chicks to get the sour milk consuming habit when feeding b sour milk to chicks chick s it Is advisable to use earthenware or enamelware containers instead of metal as the lactic add acid in the sour milk may have a chemical reaction on the metal |