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Title: Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Fiske, George B. (George Burnap), 1868-
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York : O. Judd Co.
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crackedcorn; 6 p. m., cracker mixture. Skimmed milk isallowed freely, but no water. The cracker mixture con-sists of cracker dust soaked in milk and mixed withboiled yolk of eggs, fine ground bone and ground beefscraps; the first week it should be nearly half egg. R. G. Buffinton writes: ( feed the young chickensthe first three days on hard-boiled eggs, and then stalebread or broken crackers for a few days longer, or nntiithey get smart enough to run out. I then give them FEEDIifQ FOE GUOWTH. 2G7 the same as I do tlie old fowls in the morning—cornmeal, fine feed, boiled potatoes and beef scraps, alwaysusing a little of the egg food. After they are two weeksol 1, I keep cracked corn and wheat by them all the time. Pigs liver is one of the best forms of animal food forcbicks. It is extensively used by Plymouth countypoulterers who hatch artificially. Codfish has killedchicks. The coops should be often moved to fresh locations,on dry, green grass plots if possible, and plenty of fresh
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FIG. 105. WHITE WONDERS. water given daily; put old nails, or other iron, in thewater, as iron is good for their health. When the chicksget strong they may be allowed to roam at will with thehen. If there is danger of hawks, a run or yard cov-ered with a wire screen may be necessary. It is also agood idea to make a box out of slats wide enougli apartto admit chicks of various sizes, and yet exclude hens,and throw the feed for the chicks in this, so that theycan eat without being robbed by the larger fowls. The 208 PEOFITS m POULTRT. chicks of dijBPerent ages should be kept at quite a dis-tance from each other for this reason, allowing onlyflocks of same age to feed together. When the chicksare six weeks old they may be removed to some otherpart of the farm, where they will have a fresh hunting-ground for insects, which will form an important partof their food. They should be placed in small, portablehouses, eight feet long, four feet wide, three feet highin front and two feet high in

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