Three Feeds Daily
The following morning the inclined plane is let down, about five handfuls of Corning Chick Food to every hundred chicks is thrown into the litter, and a little is scattered just at the top of the inclined plane to entice the youngsters down. No more food is given until the noon hour, when, into the litter is thrown two handfuls to every hundred chicks, and again a small quantity is placed at the top. No more feeding is done until four o’clock when five handfuls of Corning Chick Food are again thrown into the litter.
For the first two or three nights, or more if necessary, the chicks are quietly driven up to the hover, and the inclined plane pulled up after them, it being let down the first thing in the morning.
Fresh water is supplied in the drinking cups each day, morning, noon, and night, and, with the night filling, a brush on the plan of those made for the cleansing of milk bottles, is used to give the cups a proper cleaning.
On the back of the record cards, hung behind each hover, the mortality is kept.
The hovers are raised every morning to learn the exact condition of the entire brood after the night.