When the chicks are two months or so old and ready for the cold
brooders they should be sorted into sexes, one hundred pullets being
placed in one run and a like number of cockerels in another. It is
foolish to allow the males to run with the females, for the former are
such greedy and spiteful beggars, and by devouring more than their
own share of the food do not give the pullets a fair chance. Keep all
houses or accommodations used for young stock regularly lime-washed
within. As the youngsters grow and get too large for the small
brooders they must be shifted to fresh runs, keeping those of the same



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size together for all to get an equal chance, where larger poultry-houses
are provided. In the case of chicks with hens, do not in favourable
weather let the hen coddle them too long. Let the broodies go back
to their laying houses for " active service " in the laying line, and
place the chicks when of a good size in the runs containing the " accom-
modation " or cold brooders, i.e. after the sexes have been parted.
