Chick Ration
| Baby Chick Grain | |
| 200 | pounds finely cracked yellow corn |
| 100 | pounds cracked wheat |
Fed morning and evening, beginning when chicks are 36 hours old.
| Baby Chick Mash | |
| 20 | pounds ground yellow corn |
| 20 | pounds wheat bran |
| 20 | pounds flour middlings |
| 20 | pounds pinhead oats |
| 10 | pounds meat scrap (50 per cent protein) |
| 5 | pounds dried buttermilk or skim-milk |
| 2 | pounds oyster shell meal or limestone flour or bone meal |
| 2 | pounds cod liver oil (mixed with the pinhead oats) |
| 1 | pound table salt |
This mash is fed to the chicks as soon as they are placed under the brooder stove. It may be placed in hoppers. Let the chicks have all they want to eat; some of the mash should be before them at all times.
Teach the chicks where to find the warmth by enclosing them for a few days with a ½ inch mesh wire one foot high and set from 10 to 12 inches from the edge of the hover.
Put some clean grit on bits of cardboard in several places around the hover when the chicks are first brought from the incubator.
A little sour skim-milk or semi-solid buttermilk, diluted 1 to 7 in founts should be available from the beginning.
After the chicks are 60 hours old or when you are sure they are hungry, begin to feed, using cardboard in the same manner as before. Follow the feeding chart.
Feed little and often. Keep the chicks slightly hungry.