National Agricultural Library

How To Raise Chicks

Including Revision of Facts about White Diarrhoea. A Practical Book That Tells How to Select and Manage Breeding Fowls, What You Want To Know About Foods and Feeding, How to Get Hatchable Eggs, How to Hatch With Hens or Incubators, How to Brood and Raise Chicks, What White Diarrhoea Is and How to Prevent It

American Poultry Journal Publishing Company. Chicago, IL

Raising the chicks has been named as the most difficult "poultry problem" and some poultrymen say that "everything else is easy." If one begins right, with well born chicks, chick rearing ought not to prove so very difficult. What is meant by beginning right?

For success the rearing of chicks should begin with the parent stock. You must have good healthy hatchable eggs in order to get good livable chicks. You can't get good healthy hatchable eggs unless you breed for health and manage for comfort. Select your breeding stock with great care to get the maximum of constitutional vigor; so manage and care for them that they will be comfortable, contented, and happy, and you will find them productive and possessing abundant vigor, vitality and health. These good and necessary qualities will prove an invaluable hereditary asset when the time comes for hatching eggs and rearing chicks.

In this book considerable space has been given to selection and mating of breeding stock, to care and management of breeders, to foods and the relation of fowls to food. I believe that a better under- standing of these subjects will make it easier to solve the "problem" of how to raise chicks. It does not pay the farmer to sow poor seed. It will not pay the poultryman to produce poor seed eggs and weak- ling chicks by breeding, hatching and rearing from stock birds that are lacking in constitutional vigor. If you want strong sturdy chicks, full of health, vigor and vitality — the power to live — there is one safe and sure way to get them and that is to begin right with sound, well selected stock and breed for health.

Herein also will be found chapters on natural and artificial incubation and brooding, including the preparation of chick foods and care, feeding and management of chicks during growth, — all are presented with the object of helping the reader to success in chick rearing. My earlier booklet "Facts About White Diarrhoea" has been revised and largely rewritten and incorporated as a part of this book. The formula is given for a remedy which has been thoroughly tried for four years under a wide range of climates and conditions in the prevention and treatment of white diarrhoea and which has proved successful and satisfactory in the majority of cases reported.

It is hoped, friend Reader, that this hook will help you to greater success in chick rearing, to more and better chicks and to greater comfort for the chicks themselves, — if it interests you and you profit by the advice herein given the book will be well worth while.