Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1919 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE]

POULTRY NOTES

Keep the house dry at all times, • • • Have your birds as nearly alike In color and shape as possible. • * • Young chicks should not be fed from 24 to 36 hours after hatching. * * * More chicks are killed by improper feeding than die from other causes. • • • Never breed from a half-grown male bird and expect high vitality in your chicks. * • • Turkeys like other stock or poultry must be kept clean, healthy and happy to thrive. - ,• • • Have the male strong in point* where the females are weakest and vice versa. ' ' X < - 1 ♦ -■ 4 Breed only from sfbck with high vitality which never has been affected by disease. Proper warmth and proper feeding are the two main essentials in th< early life of the baby chick. • • • A good first feed for little turkeys, little chicks, little ducklings and little goslings is stale, but not' moldy or musty, bread, moistened with freshly soured milk.