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EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS
Thursday, April 3, 1919
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FO R YOUR EGGS.
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LEE S. BRONSON
MODERN POULTRY
CULTURE
By PHIL. MAUQUAM
F eed in g B ab y C hicks
(Continued from last week)
Whatever method of feeding is
used, the grain ration should be
the last feed at night. The chicks
crop would soon be emptied of
soft, moist, ground grain, if fed
at night, consequently the chick
would be hungry again long be
fore daylight.
Chickens naturally p r e f e r
whole grain to ground grain. If
they had access at all times to all
the whole grain they could eat
they would consume but little
ground feed. Chicks never grow
so rapidly when fed only whole
grain. And since an early m atur
ity is desirable, ground grain
must be supplied them. Chick
ens of all ages relish a moist
mash.
When the mash is fed
dry they may not consume as
much as they would if it were
moist. But no system of feed
ing should be adopted which
would cause them to eat more
ground feed, by weight, than
whole grain.
There is such a
thing as carrying the ground
H A R R Y C. R EID
feed proposition too far. If the
fowls are fed a ration which con
sists of half ground grain and
half whole grain, by weight, the
proportion will be about right.
The only reason a mash is fed
moist is that chickens will eat
more than when it is dry.
It is
sometimes a task to get them to
consume the 50 per cent propor
tion of mash mentioned above.
The moist mash will aid in accom
plishing this result.
Feeding moist mash to young
chicks, however, s o m e t i m e s
causes trouble. It must be feed
very carefully, especially to start
with, otherwise serious digestive
troubles are apt to make their
appearance.
There is a differ
ence in feeding hen raised chicks
and those brooded artifically.
The chicks raised with the hen
need not be fed in litter. Those
raised under hovers should be
fed in short cut straw, which
should cover the door of the
brooder house to a depth of about
one inch, or a little less, to start
with.
The depth of the litter
should gradually be increased as
the chicks grow older. It is best,
however, for the first 3 or 4 days
to feed the artificially raised
chicks on smooth, clean boards
on top of the litter. By this
MILTON D. EV A N S
means every chick will get its
share of food.
The amount to
feed can also be better gauged if
the chicks are fed on boards for
the first few days.
To obtain the best results it is
not necessary to change from a
“starting” food to a “ growing
ration. In fact, the less change
in the varieties of foods the bet
ter. If a chick’s ration consists
of the proper proportions of grain,
ground grain, beef scrap, char
coal, etc., it need not be chang
ed. Of course, the fluctuations
in the market price of certain
grains often render a change
desirable.
But changes in the
feeding formulas should be made
with caution.
A chicken is a
creature of fixed habits, and
hence radical changes of any de
scription do not always bring
good results.
(To be continued)
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