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Title: Our domestic birds;
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935
Subjects: Poultry Pigeons Cage birds
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 94. Coop to be used with runs,as in Fig. 95 98 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS and small seeds, but a mash of scalded corn meal and bran, suchas is given old fowls, or a baked johnny cake, is better. Thereis no need of fussing with such foods as finely chopped hard-boiled eggs, cracker crumbs, pinhead oatmeal, and other thingsoften recommended as most appropriate for the first feeds oflittle chicks. Healthy hen-hatched chicks raised by the naturalmethod on a farm need nothing but one soft feed (such ashas been mentioned) in the morning, a little hard grain toward
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Fig. 95. Coops and runs for hens and chicks1 evening, and then, just before dark, all the soft food they willeat. The best grain for them is sound cracked corn; the nextbest is wheat. The chickens should have good water alwaysbefore them, and may be given all the milk they want. Skimmilk, sour milk (either thin or clabbered), and buttermilk are alleaten with relish and promote health and growth. Vessels inwhich milk is given must be cleaned often or they will becomevery filthy. 1 Burlap bags are used to shade the interior or to keep out rain. When not in usethey are turned back on the top of the coop. MANAGEMENT OF FOWLS 99 V -• ♦ i : v-:;- A Fig. 96. Small house for growing chicks,in Maine orchard Management of growing chicks. Of course, healthy chickensare growing all the time, and growing at a very rapid rate, too;but after the chicks are weaned, they have usually reached the point in growth when theincrease in size in a shortperiod is very noticeable.So poultry keepers commonl

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