Obiciendum pullis diebus XV primis mane subiecto pulvere, ne rostris noceat terra dura, polentam mixtam cum nasturti semine et aqua aliquanto ante factam intritam, ne tum denique in eorum corpore turgescat; aqua prohibendum.
During the first fifteen days there should be fed to the chicks in the morning, on a bed of dust, so that the hard earth may not injure their beaks, a mixture of barley-meal and cress-seed which has been worked up some time before with water, so that when it is eaten it may not swell up in their crops; and they must be kept away from water.
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