The Rate of Growth of Single Comb White Leghorn Chicks

Abstract

The following tests were run with Single Comb White Leghorn chicks from hatching to eight weeks of age. They were hatched in an electrobator and brooded in an international oil burning hover.

FEED MIXTURES

The following mixtures were used in these experiments, the proportions being given by weight:

MIXTURE 1

Rolled oats	8 parts.
Wheat middlings	8 parts.
Meat and bone meal	2 parts.
Bone meal	1 part.

MIXTURE 2

Cracked wheat	3 parts.
Cracked corn	2 parts.
Pinhead oats	1 part.

MIXTURE 3

Wheat middlings	6 parts.
Corn meal	3 parts.
Meat and bone meal	3 parts.
Bone meal	1 part.

MIXTURE 4

Whole wheat	3 parts.
Cracked corn	2 parts.
Hulled oats	1 part.

The experiment was divided into eight periods of seven days each.

The feed intake for the eight periods was as follows:

TABLE NO. I

Period and feed	Quantity of feed consumed.
FIRST PERIOD:	Gm.
Milk	1,510