ONIONS FOR YOUNG CHICKENS.
Give the young chickens (says an exchange) a weekly feed of chopped onions. It helps to keep them healthy. A medium sized onion, minced very fine, is enough for a brood. If you have been enterprising enough to get very early chickens, don’t let them die for want of a little extra care. Give them one feed daily of rice and another of oatmeal. You can get cheap qualities of both. Let the other meals be of any sort of kitchen scraps, occasionally a little cracked corn. Twice a week give some raw meat, cut very small. At the first sign of gapes treat the patient to a bread pill thickly coated with red pepper, or a lump of camphor. It may be necessary to repeat the dose. We have never known a second dose to fail of effecting a sure cure. Eggs intended for hatching should be promptly gathered two or three times a day. It is not known how much chilling an egg will bear and still retain the life of the embryo. But it is not safe nor desirable to take any unnecessary risks in the matter.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2017, 11 August 1880, Page 3
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194ONIONS FOR YOUNG CHICKENS. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2017, 11 August 1880, Page 3
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