Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — POUITRY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POUITRY

TIME TO FEED YOUNG CHICKS Mashes Mixed With Milk Are of Considerable Value in Giving Youngsters Good Start. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Young chicks may be fed any time after they are thirty-six to forty-eight hours old whether they are with a hen or In a brooder. Some good feeds for the first feeding are moistened hardboiled eggs, johnnycake, stale bread, oatmeal or rolled oats, which may be fed separately or in combination. Mashes mixed with milk are of considerable value In giving the chicks a good start. The mixture should he fed in a crumbly mash and not In a sloppy condition. Johnnycake composed of the following Ingredients In the proportion named is a very good feed for young chicks: One dozen Infertile eggs or one pound of sifted beef scraps to ten pounds of cornmeal; add enough milk to make a pasty rn:v<h and one tablespoonful of baking soda and bake until done. Dry bread crumbs may be mixed with hard-boiled eggs, making about one-fourth of the mixture eggs, or rolled oats may be used in place of bread crumbs. It Is a good plan to give these feeds about five times dally for the first week, then gradually substitute for one or two of the£e feeds a mixture of finely cracked grains of equal parts by weight of cracked wheat and finely cracked corn and pinhead oatmeal or hulled oats, to which about 5 per cent of cracked peas or broken rice and 2 per cefit of charcoal or millet or rape seed may be added. A -commercial chick feed may be substituted if desired. This ration may be fed until the chicks are two weeks old, when they should be placed on grain and a dry or wet mash mixture. Young chickens should be fed from three to five times <dally, but if care Is given not to overfeed chicks will grow faster when fed five times per day. Young chicks should be fed not more than barely enough to satisfy 'their appetites and to keep them ex-.

erclsing except at the evening or last meat, when they should be given all they will eat. There is danger in overfeeding, particularly If the young chicks are confined and do not have access to free range, as too much feed under such conditions is apt to cause leg weakness.

Young Chicks Just Out.