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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
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September, 1911 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS SWITHSO/V/^
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FEEDING THE YOUNG CHICKS By IDA D. BENNETT THERE is no better food for the young chicks during the first days of their downy chickenhood than hard-boiled eggs minced fine, with plenty of scalded milk to drink; in a few days this may be supplemented with bread crumbs which have been soaked in milk or water until they crumble freely, and squeezed dry and crumbly—never wet bread with hot water or try to crumble it until sufficiently soaked; it should be crumbly and not soggy or over-wet, and only as much should be fed at a time as will be eaten up clean. To the bread crumbs and hard-boiled eggs may also be added corn-meal baked in a johnny- cake and then dipped in water or milk and crumbled; this is greatly relished by the little chicks and forms one of the best of foods. After the chicks are a couple of weeks old less soft feed should be given and the main dependence placed upon grain of various kind—oats hulled or cracked, cracked corn and whole wheat making an excellent diet. If the hen has her liberty on a grass range and access to some bare ground she will pick up the greater part of the feed for the chicks, and that of a kind well calculated to aid their growth and digestion, but do not think that she can find all that they will require; they will need generous feed at least four times a day after they have passed the downy stage, and at least three times a day after they feather out. The water - supply is very important for all fowls and especially for young chicks. The practice of supplying water in old tin cans cannot be too strongly condemned. Rusty tin produces oxide of tin—a poison for the fowls and one which induces laxity; most of the cases of so-called chicken cholera can be traced to rusty tin drinking vessels; iron vessels, on the contrary, are beneficial, as the iron given off in the form of rust is an excel- lent tonic for the fowls. The drinking fountains improvised from a flower-pot and saucer answer every requirement of the small chick, and larger pots may be adapted to the needs of the larger fowls. Anything large enough to drown a chicken or to wet its body, should it get into it, should not be allowed where there are young chicks. A little chick will get into a dish of water which barely reaches above its legs and will be so chilled that it cannot get out and will die from the exposure as surely as though drowned. The drinking-vessels need frequent emptying, cleaning and re- filling, and it is a good plan to keep a wire or whisk brush at hand for the pur- pose, as these will remove the scum which adheres to the sides much more thoroughly and quickly than a cloth. Unless chickens are intended for broil- ers, too fattening food should be avoided, and those grains rich in bone, muscle and nerve production should be fed. Wheat, oats, ground beans—all are excellent food for the growing chick, building up a framework on which future layers of flesh and fat may be placed to advantage. But where chickens are to be fattened at an early age for market, then the prin- cipal reliance must be placed on corn, feeding freely of the cracked grain and supplementing this with the baked johnny-cake. But grain alone will not be sufficient for the growing chick; it must have a The Scientific American Boy By A. RUSSELL BOND 12mo. Three Hundred and Twenty Pages Three Hundred and Forty Illustrations Price, $2.00, Postpaid A STORY OF OUTDOOR BOY LIFE, suggesting a large number of diversions which, aside from affording entertainment, will stimulate in boys the creative spirit. <J Complete practical instructions are given for building the various articles. The book contains a large number of mis- cellaneous devices, such as Scows, Canoes, Windmills, Water Wheels, Etc. MUNN & CO., Inc., •scientifI^ImIrican- 361 Broadway, New York

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