RAISE TO HOW Fowls, That Book What How TO or You Get Tells How Want What About How Eggs, How Incubators, White PRINCE managing is AMERICAN POULTRY CHICAGO, Feeding, and Hens with Chicks, How and WOODS, to D M. JOURNAL POULTRY by published AMERICAN Raise Breeding tt. T. editor Foods and Diarrhoea Manage and Hatch to Brood to Prevent BY Select to Know to Hatchable FACTS DIARRHOEA WHITE ABOUT Practical OF REVISION INCLUDING A CHICKS JOURNAL ILLINOIS 1912 PUBLISHING - CO. COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY PRINCE T, WOODS. M. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED D. FOREWORD AISING the that chicks has been "poultry problem" "everything else with well born so prove named and is easy." chicks, very say begins rearing What ficult dif- most poultrymen If one chick difficult. the as some right, ought is meant not by to ning begin- right? For to and manage and care and happy, will In eggs of of how to It will not are pay by lacking in full of and sure with rearing. revised for and four and for management object years is of booklet for given under a so contented, dant abun- qualities necessary time for comes and a want power to begin selection of sow eggs from stock strong live breeders, the to seed " and better a solve to poor rearing is to chapters the of helping and on to standing under- "problem" seed. poor and ling weak- birds sturdy there right with natural the About is that chicks, safe one sound, well during growth, to remedy of range climates " as a been and bation incu- foods all and are pre in chick has been part of this book. success Diarrhoea" White has artificial chick reader incorporated which and of preparation chicks "Facts wide to that farmer If you the given health. including and the pay that found largely rewritten formula vigor; possessing the I believe produce vigor. the earlier My and it easier not to " be care management food. make vitality breed will fort. com- great and been and hatching and brooding, feeding sented will get them and also and to constitutional stock Herein care, breeding, to way care fowls poultryman health, vigor selected The the has space to It does chicks. raise for with comfortable, when eggs chicks. subjects these chicks of hatchable constitutional good asset good livable manage stock be begin have to get good and productive hereditary stock, relation the they These considerable breeding of and of will should must healthy health breeding them health. rearing book this mating foods and maximum find invaluable an prove the that will get good for your get vigor, vitality and hatching can't breed you of chicks You in order eggs Select them you parent You chicks. unless rearing stock. hatchable healthy for the success the with thoroughly conditions 7 87284 tried in the 8 HOW and prevention It comfort the friend chick for advice in satisfactory hoped, in success by is the herein the to of this book and better if " book the given and majority more themselves, chicks diarrhoea that Reader, rearing, CHICKS white of treatment and successful RAISE TO it help chicks interests will be Lake. 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D. 1912. open-air open-front, Farms portable 23, T. greater to and worth Prince Silver to you and you well proved reported. cases will has which is a will colony used Wozelma by house accommodate 's Journal Poultry for breeders, a flock of CONTENTS Chapter vigor in is of Selection " 1 he service plant grows " 21 MINERAL AND food all the How " " of body temperatures its Housing EGGS of VI" brood chicks test to happy Fertility " Period " Well " tance Imporhealthy " fed, eggs. incubation. 55 ARTIFICIAL How " incubation with hatches good get to during eggs keeping and Gathering " of AND hens guide needed with the made home- Simple " chicks for white more than Contagion has prepared food thermometer a " 89 food " best foods prepared Freshly " Live " " necessaries. Other 97 and coops and layers birds ABOUT one form? Prevention proved is " effective for Chicks of Symptoms " of Has " " rations in Changes range" " market. 107 DIARRHOEA WHITE diarrhoea " Comfort " CHICKS FEEDING AND how Colony " stock FACTS W^hat than chicks brood to brooders " CHICKS GROWING Weaning Growing How " 71 chicks and hen chicks. Cooked " BROODERS. WITH for Fireless " temperature right FOODS food, foods hen coops confined brooders teaching AND HENS Brood " the keep heated in chick Commercial hens to CHICK VIII" Home-made WITH CHICKS chicks " better Patience which eggs with but range Small brooders X" hatchable and tester. to IX" yield NATURAL BROODING VII" 35 feeders automatic Hoppers healthy kept hatches How " egg Chapter balance to 49 be may good get " of INCUBATION" to Chapter chance a BREEDERS OF and comfort Sex " eggs incubators Chapter Maintaining " HATCHING eggs Time " Let for FOR Selection in " managed V" feeding them Keep and comfort breeders How fowl the food of ration Balanced " -Digestion " Give " necessary Chemistry " individuals- with varies is MANAGEMENT AND Foods " of How food needed Exercise " CARE IV" eggs is food of Disposition palatable " cells living The " ration. own Chapter principle life food Live " 25 FOOD the body wholesome, desirable is AND fowl's the Variety a bird male" a vitality secure male to ANIMAL of source and fowl living The Chapter Chief " FOWLS III" Chapter Chapter to elements. Food Chapter females of VEGETABLE, food What the of care Number " stock Sterility. vs. FOODS" II" Chapter Mating " Fecundity and " females 11 STOCK breeding in necessary ^^Seloction chicks the the of BREEDING MATING AND SELECTING I" Constitutional germ Treatment in " the specific 9 in Causes " disease for Formula cases many years. disease many been a simple climates " Is found? there " remedy for four Ehx^ CHAPTER Selecting ^O and 1. Mating SUCCESSFUL BE health for in right, get start now future generations to select your common good for health health for hatching the eggs of life which intend in live and Unless hatchable eggs said pen the to be this sturdy chicks, quite unfavorable chicken As lot Eggs from one of from is not duce pro- manage healthy. expect Remember a that seed good get vigor. poultry the vital business, seed have full of the to be from eggs abundant in stitutional con- the force. chicks. The power become said, "get the right 'em; stock they are that is sort to of Nc^rth H. HILL ^aroHna LIBRARY State College in be chicks hatch are stock of the without will what such of in has breeding the will stock victims born out in under from results prizes strain parent 11 D. winning even possible Condition thing Chicks not best satisfactory your do the obtained. whole on in in vitality, often and kill breeding kind, well-fed conditions. breeder and battle build to healthy, sound, ailments abuse their the condition strong, a stock vitality get of cannot half foundation Eggs take to sound are of chicks than more value. to birds sturdy Physical without subject and your must possession reproduction and room. and Vitality and would your of You stock is the breeding the for show breeding the of source chickens. keeping. have to constitutional " a ing, hous- good thrive. condition been foundation the in chicks. get good and ical phys" management. cannot health ning begin- vigor by corn. You possess the is seed seed. cannot you produce to vigor to not undertaking is vitality? What poultry eggs for house You poor your stock your you from does breeding The the crop are seed good Without good poor wish keep seed. that eggs stock from sow stock good Feed, would if you Don't by poultry your if you chicks. healthy and Breed fowls healthy care into sense Breed of breeding them Keep must you foundation. vitality, constitutional food, good Get poultry, solid of health. " breeding lasting, a soundness, word Stock Breeding sidered con- are "white and not rhoea." diar- it will live." condition, either from other or to hatch, slow breeding find to only Here again, have been the lies cause the cause the prevent and house fiock your of because flock the good dity," fecun- to again at healthy keep health food, good your and cess suc- ness Cleanli- contentment. and find removing have would Comfort that you or and to care cases When if you as housing, many avoiding and good care, in essential comfort breeding carefully up the find by furnishings. and yards food, houses, of the cleanliness, " hatch against the birds produce to "C's" three in into health for manage Remember healthy. wish may provide management. trouble if you health for incubation them mate will their or further days. exceptional the carefully You stock. stock the can Feed, with for with Breed chicks. season. breeding the you cause. stock the of of hatch first ten "provisional over and Look exceptional futile. go Select condition. physical may stock, breeding the ing breed- vigor be is, the to remarkable in nature the trying the often and of that was are ing, hatch- after and the errors constitutional results an flies in stock; nature of of efforts the feeding that get sick possible it is quite lack of you off like trouble shell, investigate good not will the be, may are eggs breeding the but investigate incubation the die incubation; faulty to eggs, cases sometimes beginning the days indication an their and ten Oftentimes because though the within all chicks cause, Abuse stock. learn numbers investigate extinction, To off in large many the that simply was in is all WTong. stock the die good in very fault; but are chicks With stock. food, sickness worth When trouble the lay don't improper that them. rear die or chicks produce never and hatch to it takes at will causes, CHICKS surroundings, unsanitary inbreeding, of abuse RAISE TO HOW 12 contentment housing and good management. treating the of of depend him upon which he is mated. afford to be cockerel in careless which vigor, the to judge. He must be capable of performing well the eggs are from sold results. his for pen should hatching. be Failure eggs in your He pen. physical soundness, duty incubated to and observe by else ing breed- a convenience them to when of the pen; i. e., all the hens with do, you selection should carefully to laid whatever reason, you for the indifferent head for refer is half male the fertilize this or is to constitutional to For female, simply and in breeders. female standpoint breeding the From you section head this is essential breeding in the necessary these what particulars many under consider will In " is equally male we Bird. Male The be of as health, to watched which tested these is he at rules the near see cock possible that he assigned. home or perfection it is as cannot you before is fatal to is The any good HOW should male The which variety breeding the whether taint or selecting is well matured; furnished ibut full-breasted, tendency to carriage and large bit a viewed the appearance. of capable clean and Do how plumage breed perfect which faults shanks which on the plumage or or kind; wabbling bunches tendency foreign condition; or unsoundness the mucous but if it is choose the of like mouth and is obstinate, bird and feet pale and to or or any small, thin luster and of and comb discharge side; on ing shak- frequent halt"; wing following droppings one other or shortness foul ing stagger- paralysis part of body; or in face throat; from good bill, crooked knees, stain foot, hock how hawk violent "string any kind; and of any bilitated de- emaciated, ulcers, swellings of symptom ical phys- disease. membrane another any a it against the way; in step backward on in businesslike lacking service; (dizziness); walk length, physically shows wrong rattling leg weakness; or Examine after growths deformities abscesses; the to gait; jerking of to grass-green vertigo vent; a plumage, or when carried kept, legs knock rumpled much lens holding and deformity, or and matter no that points, turn too mites. female, or other comb; of well and bright scale no neither eye and pen deep, and medium the of Crow-head jumping of body the fully variety, keen, sharp, bright curve beak to and apart wattles, possible male badly to that one joints; good aggressive, standard blue-green with mains re- the hock red; stout set the condition be inclined and of head in or face vent; there broad-backed, best unsoundness: running below parently ap- to size for well and as in alert, active, and any be be to discolored from from variety; seems breath should roach-back the for has or choose out be at comb head as swellings indicate bone, breast an in the place it may in difficult whether size legs, thighs proportioned bird His should well-shaped, be his not He egg-shaped a the from the physically had pen, good bright, healthy a well should free of rear; taking all comers. of whatever is always filled of appearance somewhat being He well well-formed and gives that has It breeding be should stout, good-sized the head the females. symmetry, from that not, and or and grown "knock-kneed" small a be place no illness. head to He the for full and whole manner or a too nor bird plumage. with have specimen should trouble. i. e., full overlarge not from he bird complete is cure male a to as a birds serious any chronic In eyes, from breeding all else male breed Never pen. above but 13 CHICKS standard good a unhealthy or recovered determine be represents, he Inferior sound. RAISE TO and that throat carefully unhealthy. will is not not so Simple yield affected. to and discard canker simple Note may the be remedies, carefully the bird if cured, better condi' tion the of Is something breed Don't from later; either germs and days tendency takes to does the play at harm action than fresh, of other method get him away he in energies gallant and not a attention harem the of the attentive given will to be in amount no This is running of food to keep supplying repaid him in with the and heart few a food of he in good gained away a of his active, an order. from day a is out wasting for meals ture mix- a for flock, often his occasional by tid-bits and from the this him where good during be important, him in Avoid him with results the allowing him should keeping save quite fighting after run lungs coop, it may been breeding wind, feed by comfortable and for without fresh, green risk has incestuous to to ardice Cow- whipped that out," he and when male, well run a females, service. useless sufficient will hens disposed badly stock condition. of he from. try to keep as out get fight bird. bird uncooked), or You grains. from trying occasionally flock (cooked the gallant easily may the of test other above and been of "trying male and is attentive from sound of named disposed and better a healthy good, a meat hard sight and eat prove season, sweet two often with "pit" stock generations little A has breed "quitters" are he of that full of breed to is from he v/ho several struck. are If he removing that that faults him him and is cowardly that that fanciers Game stags you breeding indicate often healthy. is aggressive using It evil to uproot disqualifying advise some indirect, by body. by "flirting" ability prob- inherit or them If he several and possibility unsound chicks for live, will male If he of and losses, direct an get weak cause keep the indicates usually tell you any condition. his or will When placed Breeding will you the management breeder. not it may in or the if they and the of good a cock in aone, is a for disappointment incubation from and females. I would blows few first bird bird and often always result Test " any closely. result will or make will purposes of develop the too the the there leg is vigor. all at during taint only Bird. presence time, some inbred Male craven in will males healthy probably will before are source, breeding careful not Scaly disqualify trouble in eggs also such from which of the the germs is inherited in the males sign. toms symp- that means constitutional result development There the in to sure of Breed legs sure be should fertilize disease of Care and Weak of chicks years sort. is hatching. continuance and It is a lacking not stages that feet closely for other necessarily not cured, chicks. weak after dry, look bird. does male will he all at dying and withered the male a unsound an CHICKS yard. breeding the and and It is easily breeding. in wrong hot or with disease parasitic dry Hot, disease. of feel If they legs. RAISE TO HOW 14 A does little from valuable HOW breeding bird. strongly fertile breeding condition. not pen there are Do where that good a brought they kept of poultry convent, a him for a be will he don't the male bird too long this when them. So better pullets, they better their results period of over-attentiveness Raise the try in make of during birds. male with give and more believe I rule a true the to maturity, can, them and change little when be to far breeders run as growth but take from away to and flock a ruined better subjected, not been make in hens. of have seems young you to If necessary keep fail and in pullets your monastic a method of cockerels. for mangement good or injury or flock a sterile better to husky if in matter males habits allowed always when weeks bad and reverse layers lot nagging insure not kept this other males become make with with better to The of overlook to breeding and liable eight from growth will for, and cared up it leads develop better, and male running females develop breeders hens importance. excellent breeders. usually as many females, less well is 15 the with breeders breeding no with are around all the males up he sufficient many Young way. Too CHICKS bird male unless eggs continuous than harmful the Keeping it of consider to RAISE TO for vacation off better a time, a enough, are for from away days not month the himself by run do each during except and pen few a female the moult until well feathered. Female. The great will care apply sound as both to in necessary large and that than the eggs of number eggs is less he laying, as The legs a of good ordinary they and produce females a not hold breeders. are inattention that true because the on have been next part cases. use rather to produce the greater the of a size not layers of long all Do liable a is To the in good more is the governs for layers, chiefly male and breeder. good as vigor shape parent Choose layers females to attentive male, established in rule. breeding alert, active and ones. than female sickness. Prolific the of Health and for it does though serious Size male. the selection females. with Constitutional requisites of shape progeny, had have exceptional infertile comb standard and size the in as for the to selected be consideration. first female should requisites apply well-grown, fully-matured birds as of shape the they the then the extent Choose be the and consideration breeders Where sexes should body female male. the as The " good and should female size busy; face bright and well with and have set bright a broad, deep body tail apart, plumage; of good, healthy red well for spread bright eyes, color; and the ety, vari- at a base; bit other full; essen" 16 HOW tials of CHICKS in description desirable of qualities male. in hens, Unhealthy breeding the tumors, which used the in The produce females and in will hatch The pen. are the which determining Mating. secure to that say and it is have will usually in growth the men crosses? Again, sterile, and of such Where of distant results you lot of good faults you abundant are ones his from the records. should inbreed. the breeders for. working the and start He past that and had show A had is an do as this last (crossing) and do why in tendency good inbreeding that not so many for first been have jected sub- ment improve- show size, less for ous, vigor- their eggs who plain com- breeders found to far so doubt that lacking a order preference a be there in quick true strains strains. that sure as noted is know found that breeding let the told me too that a he record relationship close are sessed posbe relationship obtaining fancier, who kept the birds with consistent pigeon always could the and vigor thirty years, he it repeatedly be of vidual indi- blood promotes found inbred closely in of means go to new generations often constitutional between carefully birds must all utility values, secure of many for I have sure inbreed utility values, then so are why also? smaller come very but cate indi- about breeders to If market it that work will nest, keep I beg and cross. in breeding utility values, often as is why inbreed meat. production for tically prac- breeding poultry only to Introduction grow incestuous to in growing the are that in trap Some points. to improvement who The is to seldom the type" of record. fancy of in come it is necessary shown. offspring practical to be hens practical "egg usually breeders as quick in all varieties. that egg constant brings layers necessary and to be not selection another or permitted certain hatching in quite stimulates should Some cause be not any in pay a results laying heavy like found and best in good It is conceded " the abdominal the in hens. one experience most hens record egg bred containing having ground, in addition be eggs or aid sterile from should The be to types many the on should those or invaluable an and believe to prolific layers. the drag detecting birds with men behind, is nests Such disposed not eggs, and. pen female in males pen. trap sterile. breeding no place no disqualifying as the deformed to sick, have above from or abdomen that been mentioned, down broken of eggs females bar already cause have mentioned lays misshapen breeding use breeding also Hens clots. blood which faults faults habitually that The pen. those to hens or should breeding for to RAISE mentioned bird healthy a TO had of by inbreeding the has bred to inbreed all of a his reference produced HOW results, loss undesirable "idiots" pigeon less part;, harmful to of in mating similar of As chicks both be healthy months of Some males serve well give not twenty-five The deal how on to lay. Test to determine The male, be takes male will him, safely How " soon The place the in chicks it may be how known. as two to for will with will some serve results. depends recently for would easily good also male a cockerel. a and upon confinement hens, how may largely good a they it is the began only way mating. "covering" of his weeks after get though, " the male service It is probable that the eggs. to (possibly by of the it is possible fertilized long be thirty which females in them, fertilization of no not than number have and be imperfect or fifteen range, laying is the fiock and that should incubating the service credited is not by of result to hatch or are often free on will more ten dozen a strong, matured, should depends which male, a male a half with when them result for care Often cock cockerels a females of cockerel a livable season. Commonly, for results of should a number hens eggs Service. that preceded can of the bird. and there are number or bility lia- more fully weakling breeding faults mating and conditions that ularly partic- the is eggs by or males is healthy male birds The " cock a many. many which true progeny. (fully matured) the Male. male good the of days as hens; producing of a thirty hens or tant) dis- more it not (this hatchable such eggs properly not number Under with the in two-year-old breed sufficient too any proved ships relation- (or there fully matured, to mated will results advisable to twice pen the grown beginning a of in full upon is considered sides not are Females and conditions most is where as faults or the faults practiced), two-year-old or the successfully be or is mating pullets. that at Number by about worry old the possible, using as similar these best yearling It is seldom bred. the and had closer why female possess the obtained Birds chicks. same and far so inbreeding rule, healthy for he fourth breeding, pigeon acted sister breed and some system that to third avoid, the yearling well-grown, cause in and to stated wise me nervous brother and not was the of showed he looked surely diseases second, pens to healthy vigorous, it true male tendency general will with the where on a a they 17 (and breeding and is possessing necessary are 'idiocy" " breeding aunts up females claim CHICKS breeding? poultry In and his that If this cousins. also vigor, incestuous uncles, than of considered satisfaction own RAISE disease, to He "fits." form his prove resistance to liability to TO females After the eggs in obtain if another before last introduced. it may occur duction introfew a male longer) impregnation the by of as has all eggs the egs early as 18 HOW within 16 living of been with ovum it has made the of live Rock a result Orpington the reverse there these of It has been proved favorable conditions, laid the from the a this breeder for care made is him served when Fecundity layer after sterile, doubt the her giving good per This mentioned of this is a it as is, in part, explained by mate, new by to about flocks and flock, each he could breeding cock and once say, bring to week, a the have of of her or well hen a rule, her the that is eggs to prone necessarily not prolific infertile. come eggs does the fault eggs will it is not that when, a cent flne stated often fault the proved be can made between, to number large number fact, yet a to birds with animals intervals, is considerable a that or this Often hen. " producing desires lay. It Sterility. versus with several care endeavoring her Where females. domestic regular strength be could particularly a he month a good of other at begin to and rest always weeks, twice providing service. only eggs Some the waste into layers days keep to service about the under of serving. of he him cases weeks. which possible, number with common for two every of from by mating few a large very a chicks dividing run male with some month, useless and fine flock by or to oviduct service, two one necessary the majority time Game a female, one of for the at promiscuous of practicable is as to it is not in interval cover litter in In the period a is sufficient particularly to brief quite stud," that that fertilize to for lay her number male a to females even a lay; the him giving "at service considerable very their permitting It one bird greatest a begin be male possesses the obtain to thereafter a ening moist- properties of produced. experiments suffice day it follows valuable a eggs many to that Game of non- have fluids sperm favorable, exist. often is just starting hen From of that the ing remain- crosses the of ripe any so might will second claim observers by in capable chemical in vary actual conditions, of much a and is Where example, fertile conditions male character conditions less the contact. the it would as be might service of act that impregnate to undoubtedly find or certain favorable in for is of power comes that, so the under that duct long, as or the the varieties, not might it found been lining of different in full which it sperm oviduct, possessing and active fertilized The the but between ovum. in CHICKS service, elapse the time long a dees often time longer impregnation RAISE after hours 24 to TO of the again come be- out Withlie hen with by a come fertile. very "Incubation," explanation), few writers published that the the on fact the in England, male when easily observed, but subject was one introduced (Mr. of into E. Cook, the first a flock to date author to of give hens is he that which or that fact the male that lack of the for eggs vigor (though that same reason the first the which service although sire, the hen one but flock the at service his the service of chicks Some No. the with work), be that both may and in Overshowing, form other hfic laying combined for sufficient be after only Where of can as with the of the balance eggs one with run has served introduced escaped do may hen's the litter produce get of No incapable of chiefly is due sterile" but lack and of sometimes produce may of specimens 2 production. re- to should is another the bird of results hereditary in put sterility good condition, be obtained. ment improve- again or pro- variety disease, no may taint of Such cause. is sterility. Prolonged result. insufficient food or rest, good of cause a like a care when result in cockerels celibacy often sterility. permanent breeders breeders healthy when is egg-making, period while for intended 1 either causes, such discovered sexes, by opportunity good thing to males young both no a to which eggs many lay than then eggs absolutely When fault. with cause rumed are from be ceeding suc- expected. ""^ 'l??^ K-f that h habits sexes road any to more No. in this the hen allowed 2 of often or of 1 and but traveled a sperms the of part result temporary sterility is be active most because not second cock No. cock produced escape of impregnate to get of No. abuse perfect sufficient a and large a marketed. Any may the lay a If the fertilization for been example: likely that hereditary or be (or the are of For her has males parent of result birds killed characteristics will 1 This disease why the time. seed the by is in eggs well a having beginning for eggs fertilized and cases), which explains the short a frequent, some it is reasonable some on grows lately or laying flock, infertile it is possible chicks of the it in and neglected produced, into seldom become may been impregnation, escape may in of eggs enter grass is This produce will laying near less laying sufficientlyoften favorites more begin have or proportion being that service service. a the more Where his has usually for more are to those which prolific mates prolific layers, there expect in these serve responsible measure With to to about to hens unproductive are Failure those or those while productive, time layers 19 CHICKS particularly attentive usually IS become the by surrounded soon RAISE TO HOW adult introduced growing to are hens. into it better so free grown reared breeding pen are and on are erels cock- males sively, excluit is While doubtedly un- by annoyance that certain less bad and good of from equally being abuse many flocks females. pullets appears for Males the the seen in the with run keep growing, I have them in results range males with a be likely to much less ber num- sive abu- likely 20 HOW to "go to by the monastic lot of put one two or A the pen. should be not It with of the is of is by been in attend become a to sure order and rest, long either respect expect of do up eggs the females, that but he morose unsatisfactory that has sults. re- been to season, running strong possess cared well year from become to in pens the the bring male, long a sterile the throughout as his practically enough a during to Mating fertility of particularly and test the large for. See "care its be bird and incubating good a If with out the percentage breeder. a tried If make when plucked destination and breeders still the or is he is to one cially spe- three and a her trouble produce so in their is that the eggs fertile of will with seed plumage, share in eggs Brahmas) interference the male her. and Cochins from another with discard using, lost of produce to and nests trap number try (like clipped, not of means fails worth fluff downy sterile is infertile, she her by incubating after prove long, very as as further identified If again. to fluff right may cent per appear the useless be male then show not the of and do eggs probably he can eggs with the fecundity females repeated. numbers sometimes If records. egg a the test several to sire, a test to way is females hen all herd be them together run mates to him as any reaches keep year. low throughout one male the Sterile If to for his mating. the Individual Hens grown to females, can and out intervals has he following in hens he the and sufficient cockerels necessary the to females birds reasonable only desired prove from mating fertility, hens is bird." from eggs the kept of male There that the needs unless fecundity from them himself wear bird not flock a the Extremes is reason with responsible cases, cock indifferent. and than it away cocks breeder a permitting some The breeding any flock all often as and fall in of for a old given will season, in CHICKS manners. bird, male useless and weeks If strong good RAISE few a cockerels them first in method. young teach is, pieces" TO of they fertile the vice. ser- male usually eggs. 22 our HOW life, in plant all of source and grasses grains, This better understand which cannot known know With these the in which varieties some of roots, chlorides in the of form of Some matter. vegetables is, therefore, water, carbon and dioxide oxygen, the supplies chlorophyll, and and for into high may of salts by the of its by up and 90 essential and life plant and development, light Sun- building. and the also tributes con- formation color green to carbon of growth causing the gives plant water. Next life. combination a oxygen of cent per plant to gas), and part of all vegetable as sustenance which of up is a cell is capable or life this a All " plants, like directs conditions proper two Grows. which grains made active and Plant the life principle seeds are certain form taken of use received Hydrogen important acid its substance make of leaves the to stems. How the as for toward something the contain for phur. sul- and be being magnesium. most energy plant, we phosphates, nitrates, sulphates as a used the any nitrogen chlorine cannot also in the and (carbonic is largely by Indirectly through matter important an plant may which oxygen, iron, element for constitute Water the we matter elements hydrogen, form. chiefly water which substance any of the carbon, this food iron kinds Among Mineral lime, potash, In different oxygen nitrogen occur vegetables, insects plant life that phosphorus, of supply these and important of or chemistry life are plants. elements mineral animals it is. uncombined an form can we most of element. magnesium, absorb as the in sively exclu- Therefore the essentials into exception elements bacteria another, through what an to plant calcium, potassium, grains). directly the decomposed essential are and is termed means in us food be feeding almost plant products. interest should and or either indirectly and plants fe"l upon herbivora, (grasses one or CHICKS are form food; poultry RAISE animals, matter vegetable on consider have food important most TO their for live a of time their is In and dormant ing wait- Each productions. protoplasm division a the all plants animals, encapsulated spontaneous Protoplasm cells. with endowed are development. Also, like and up the by reproduction perfect more for cells made living organism of is awakening. of and growth principle multitude animals, of the cell jelly-like albuminous substance. From the This principle plant. the sun energy works the Carbon, acid and gas into carbohydrates water plant derives within the changes wonderful hydrogen are in and absorbed the form for its energy cells under which by the as form food cellulose, and cane ment. develop- of in observe we plant starch, and growth direction in combined oxygen of the as the the life ing grow- carbonic converted sugar and HOW RAISE fats or by manufactured also are oils Vegetable glucose. TO CHICKS found the 23 chiefly in the combinations of seeds carbon, and grains hydrogen and oxygen. and Nitrogen to matter is far so the of make-up as Food into Water, may 90 as which to appear protein, cent; per compounds; present, and sugar be low as of consisting fats other in the the vegetable because all to 10 the high as nitrogenous like compounds vegetable five dry to other vided di- but how cent their are contain per and of elements matter no as albumin or of and said non-nitrogenous glucose; is largely concerned food, as may from found value study foodstuffs carbohydi-ates, cellulose, of always flesh content. is be, ranging element, into Various are the Protein protoplasm compound. and uses Cell of starchy food substance its protein special that so groups products form the converted animal. protein convenience and be compounds upon For " composition essentials: food or is based Elements. chemical of its important can an of protein. as most that by an roots, in the portion a albuminous nitrogenous plant food a the one example complex or matter another is grain, protein Gluten, substance. protein in only plant known compound assimilated when the with substance, the known, as tissue body and nitrogenous a by up combined are nitrogenous complex a and, a form taken sulphur, sulphates, and nitrates oils, and ash starch, eral min- or matter. The into food plant tissue heat. building The returning food in food earth over or and to serve Protein, considered more all to protein place most the body. for tissue by for the in form the animal process other animals food for work further until the repeating tinued con- eventually going on to the returned are and fertilizer, as is process animal, or converted of serves The manufacturing of source of Animal of health do we animal chief building and is the It has element. value but as repair. a that animal Protein protein. food How tissue the (contained demonstrated know, is perfectly more poultry. not compound, protein and been It has costly Its nitrogenous food. available protein. the the vegetable a complex a of the as becomes process again. over constituent necessary by whether animal energy earth. food multiplied matter, air the to becoming animal elements, all living is voided elements the by fat, and material, which waste by the the consumed when is the the will most widest builder. It contributes valuable meat digestible food) than animal some differs protein latter most in not from valuable of range and uses It furnishes largely to the etable veg- food completely is is etable veg- take it is within material manufac- 24 HOW of ture from is protein that of It eggs. of other also constituents, into a fat aside from heat. to The waste rid get of than economical an (excessively narrow very and difficult more that so feed to CHICKS and dangerous more food RAISE convertible is it is unwise view, TO point nitrogenous) ration. Carbohydrates supply fuel, energy, they not or In as are fat a with experiments carbohydrate lean; when fat act as starch and it deals is the by their due and Fats future serve to fuel as the cells changes tissue. Fats is not a all of crops our therefore with careful food being life and of verted con- ilated assimof excess the liver to be to loss The of is in An all foods and needs the They carried are chemical storage formation. egg service of undergo and stored heat. fats health. and be may as deposited share mineral It is chiefly fat as Fats are of fatty excess the or another It is believed by food to and grain foods now in investigation. to also to depletion of use are more another less rich than form. ever through in to is a health part in in the some growing essential than matter eral min- and that supply tity quan- of supply frequent some food necessary building varying life claimed mineral This a ent pres- provided the important is lacking in in the to an It soil soils in which all of play the of body, concerned is essential assimilation. aiding through it is food the body, of of is usually it is found shells, although egg form in the supply to is fed. tissues one owing large and the in of sections, of quantity of individual. digestion in diet, rapid too droplets is found "ash," or making and matter the easily sugar heat, cells. fat to necessarj^ matter, variety bone in of and food, converted partially greatly disposed against their a starchy and working minute liver, troubles." so before The assimilating a fat. desirable. sufficient good of of cells contribute also Mineral in form the food important food the in within body of contains fat. of act remained partially form are too a work or and growing the open place which on of into "liver body, the protect for in ration, energy, the within to digesting an fat, but ducks and storehouse out still in rice, put carbohydrates the for they Whether into consumed on They heat. is fat, the transformed so-called get we use insulators as in available are them Where proportion overtaxed and readily tissues. food use manufactory a be and in and converted abundantly the for producing. purpose to protein to bile that carbohydrates fuel heat work be cannot fed added into other any they little manufacturing to seems for that ducks was chiefly converted for and be to by furnishing saver much besides be to available It is thought question. rather believed are erals, min- formerly, our which fowls needs III CHAPTER Fowls THE fowl living is like more with is supply great fuel, digestive with the tissues, and work in workers some to products excretory the which system, nervous cord, with parts of the next Xt to is body the make ability understand The II. making Cells. Living "Food infinite number various duties department " v/hen of. " to with and only H. is and the spinal all with the regulates whole. about which to convert this well body, and their and while with some passive no is as HILL it, but into " that we the live Mineral,") is productions. are confined movement, LIBRARY and create which sesses posman- mere a which we derful won- fail we in succeed to trolling con- do. we like to povv'er living 25 D. able remark- and obstacles wonder as Animal perform, gifted meet us cells waste there brain grasped has while The living have we death fowl's The supplies communicating and great a most Then attempt we itself we serve Vegetable, of and live it is are called be returning the supreme which of meaning the it and when like machine, plants to a of parts Principle. reproduce to man-operated made, that the " something Life remarkable cannot we is the " lines polices governs, this nothing not living which all various represent in repair, carrying and into fuel the There matter. telegraph which body, over last headquarters its and body, which, and for for system, the undesirable of has substations Presiding know rid getting for system food liver. and ing manufactur- storehouses the There organs, of is live food manufacturing and It of perform. materials great which body. myriad a but ful wonder- a great development of machine, receiving converting these parts organs, for of circulatory various to such respiratory building tissue fat the transportation, of system and like need, of time to by represent connected intimately a to also With body. the to living duty system and maintenance the own and capable plants just as its the heat, hardly city peopled living a cells, each a likened organism complex upon often is comparison the Food and plant made These to there ter Chap- (see of up cells their are an have special others 26 which active more ranks its has the from ill fed get germs be number given then cause, will of up harmful of no put stored fuel fats, mineral chemical disposition order to and and of unnatural on under left be to supported It is possible to feeding estimate results fowl not would show digest natural with little or exactitude sincere "prove" and almost and results. in honest he he anything that of his may sets can of in a that the to makes be, it skilful may out following, to when digestion observe what much however, are them. upon of, But the artificial,and the that or under manner is experimenter of he approach to himself to live his has thing any- matter no and a mal nor- dealing which experimenter, handling and disposed it digests demonstrate is fere inter- digested. difficult an by handling which waste influences deceive and induce composition, like in as killed first based necessarily of food A exact Obviously food the Accurate about the of disposes subject of be must theories, of are fact knowledge, we what proportion living organism, accurate no fowl The must chemical analysis experiment chiefly their conditions known an like we experiments constituent the during The making the and the functions. of how a body of appearing body is drates carbohy- knowledge brought theory. each some body examination. unnatural food conditions. complex a like how amount fear careful of prepare governing do result for before observe the practically impossible, place and a for and and living matter debris fowl from and same the conditions to living difficult, as the cells let strike a fowl's Accurate is take restraint drawn to the produces the by complex kill The attempt any be the few but the these sugars, the other likewise or it. in each w^hich observation with after is condition fowls food). only changes food within going ably leaving the of assimilation from exist to analysis an down, knowledge must relation make broken and which compounds matter starches manufactured on only again. Chemically, " A is removed cause ing fight- and apparent; go ease dis- of army powers labor, the rights is abused, invading invaders. result until Body. protein, (partially converted as the out army danger been this rallying organized to Fowl's the water, like has and army is little army hand, drive trouble is the an this as the fighting cells, there body, and to be active upper chance and, population Chemistry mad-e duty healthy in as long fighting trim, that and combine there dissatisfied the recuperative fair a their cells of and serve As when good of put out concerned are cells germs. healthy It is only foothold a normal normal wonderful has neglect may the ill treated, cells to in All active disease with of disease. germs and needs found body. the of of form filled well be to always the in invaders repel the over Some body. the of maintenance to all travel CHICKS RAISE TO HOW he own stock. may isfaction, satAll HOW he really show can and fowls or for him to may the results experimenters and arrive the do we know by of of fat The different in which or perform not all day from as we to or have in the daily change finickyness The the is not unnecessary lot food of widely vary chemical grains tables whole grains, them. age With and meet all to sons, sea- to date the ration would might make time to the elements she as cording ac- manner food elects ration and that will ground common practical, possible as folks some gift of second and amount each to a accurately digested. time balanced is not to meat. certain on great as like One according results individuals food a and choose strated demon- is nothing the from vary exactly the in disposal eggs will been is not digest individuals as of widely. and require of of of U. so S. a foodstuffs Government with grains may in obliged are we its food the at and shrink flock from value different purposes the average only from would sight and Such values. an depend used. will it the glance show samples is of the safe to nutritive will over the even the grain same foods and value considerably, the accept value meat commercial causes, each average that their unaccountable of of samples upon A us excess analysis an different and to it shows as feeding have reports feeding sound, ground us cannot if desirable) the practical when is of saves We (even of food a and food, make-up, storage appears but there the assimilate good it, would but use will ration material. For same able several It has ration might "Nature" An considerably vary examined. trouble the composition analysis same it into body direct. a fact vary matter make-up purchased in would its analysis of make-up the necessary. chemical costly Could be for difference ration, but a uniformly do in and proof, " given a a individual of balance they some real the be converted and with To believe us may day desirable. results variety of functions. conditions same of the same the of parts certain wholly cover makes the digested of another different. results tain cer- it is possible as experiments that may matter needs the exactly widely similar with results, but as Individuals. digested another disposal to be the With This constituents where will had animals individual digested the and heat lead very we food supposed. different make with of such his same with Varies the individuals the of a of each that Several any experiment proportion show or conditions, such. of Food is popularly as same consider might we Disposition in the the at the experiments same not conduct certain obtained do, and 27 CHICKS under he follow manner then methods fowls several repeat is that prove certain different with man RAISE TO set for mixtures and, it will be when well 2^ HOW and and analysis to much much be anything and feeds that as that is can fowl has food another. The feed an answer in the highly properly Foods the man on "nutritive of out his variety a ten, fowls of good when the fair a fully to results make your ration is fowl than the is compounded chance is its to chiefly food own than it it would ture. mix- compounded" "science" name cerned, con- infallible an better or "scientifically the not select to well of that good as the of appetite abuse foregoing The " balancing to will bear high of as plied ap- should food dangerous also is to by the be far health the protein do we better the waste to individual the not values us give that one costly food difficult most to more sake perhaps of that are remembered the that mean cheaper when and not proportion elements food well as so economy's for cost just ration a food and does reasonable a nitrogenous elements It of mixture as food you instinct fowl's and it appetizing balance digestible. composition upon yield and and feeding. or nitrogenous most studies chemical the to Desirable. purpose flock. who Depend not daily mighty excess our cases palatable pure, will the do elements to be elaborate a protein non-nitrogenous and things The " with nine man palatable given to Is than of tance impor- other are brain in "ideal" that poultry want from much pseudo-scientifically, a appetites an as attention no pay be been and their The an Ration other health chemical Necessary. his the relish leave upon with foods should w^ill digestibility same too There out digestible. a far to depended Balanced and give Is not, as or purposes. if the There we its positively unwholesome. Food shall particularly provided to So safer invention, when the Don't wearies analysis with it. commercial be other foodstuffs. etc., will sufficiently for but and food by consumed eager guide, show figuring to palatable it is for of food. that show neither food time according wholesome may man's of successful as essential is not his energies, them is fowls the stuffs food- trouble. index might and manufactured for cause an Palatable ration like plain be yet of potential It a digestibility. to these of never foods analysis balanced chemically food is Wholesome, of spends honest CHICKS important. Variety ratios," good chemical more who found food essential mere a similar be one is Palatability be food can Two RAISE composition lysis of anr palatability. or the if therein see Chemical A into carefully look to TO rid get if not voided. may for breeding or medium be balanced stock, laying ration should according or be market fed to meat to the and layers, object fat. for whether of feeding As a breeders rule a a narrow medium HOW 30 presented been do I all them of purposes why so training special of range study essential the theory the he ratio has even selection for detail or plenty are his all and practical which understanding an every-day chemistry There chemically non-essential the food of make can balanced for for rations. balancing over worry and the all at which from sufficiently well are " and with chemically rations practical good is it himself of CHICKS 1:6. that bother details the with 1:4 as to poultryman of and consider not RAISE difference" "split the apparently have TO requires of the first principles? If feed we the using successful practical a food (beef scrap, that contained form of of to grit, crushed all food secure elasticity to enough of members all fowls, have to on their own their note little from they to time most crave " will rule general perverted bear feathers, eggs, we healthy is have we and an The to add or milk). to supply it of Live hold not sticks, filth, etc., in and last Is a quantity grains on in all powers to locate the cases meats to keep except This need. cravings management, the or feeding otherwise and trouble food calls for that observation of widening animal a what something your of the with appears up and our bad a ration fowls craves or do to observe they or of each for abnormal that and narrowing if obtainable) applies for of it from Dig them use method fowl a needs she with. her suply (fresh fattening Food that needs table craving, abnormal an to ,neglect and variety vary crave letter exact illness to that feeding greens the in they and body desired. to the surplus a are have and supply what cases in opportunity will to to individual the preferences addition supplied the up separate a We endeavor due mind in take or and the animal sufficient fowls account. most sense Heavy of in simplest This weeks to common it. for indication failed your in time our tioned propor- food), in that use contain dry bone; and set it, will be build contain cannot afford appetites appetites must but on will balancing little and the and individual We and will meat requirements the meet flock. eggs fairly well form) and of foods every-day ration granulated must in a food and enough mineral (green some maintain in ration a and to results the such in mineral shells necessary addition Obviously milk or have balanced roughage some and and rations, will we well foregoing, oyster elements in meal the food food practical a grains, meat in of Such of variety sufficient greens, animal poultrymen, ration. balanced wholesome majority the in of variety grains, common recommended by good a a edy rem- ration (meat, an is scrap, abundant the fowl in good the last two or dition. con- three market. Needed." In addition to the food elements I have HOW mentioned fowl and proper feeding the to good have must It must free necessary by the blood changes important condition of There stuff do that know not and In necessary; the to and of food makes sometimes foods, and of considered exclusively an Cooked strong. of digestion and food the intestines and the bird starts food onward work the up by it over which converted matter, down into waste processes heat. with from the all their special place the work tissue from the on or the into food at the rapidly mixed gizzard and the select In building, or crop, with as and solved, dis- (proventriculus), contained tissues, the forcing increases is tissues. the in true gizzard the soften to food the liver over The " in body, and frequently. stomach, crop, fluids in cells energy too is taken the manufacturing in well the purposes. repair keep them stomach paste living the chicks or not a be may fowls contractions After a and feed production and fowls and Food muscular carried The going over supplying crop to juices suit takes in all Heat of and tissues. to to germs. afford will Temperature. place progresses. reduced circulation the in The a not wish fasting. organ make and week the damaged of undesirable sparingly place been secretions intestines the of make have digestion the by fed take not It takes generation. also mixed in does to heat of softened be is chiefly times Do you digestible food case etable veg- anything destroy iVIaintaining Body activity of that once the should if add easily the of all foods. green Cooked in appetites results. diet " alone. the Suppose Food of Digestion or the better grains will three We there ciple." prin- of not more and ration green it is foods does and palatable. two that succulent starch cooking food cooked cells the stimulate toward help a live fresh of properties. uncooked fresh its food. of "antiscorbutic the as live in the to cells know we of in more meats, cooked variety, will desirable on variety particularly allowance An food the adding in service spoken renders bulk, except is, but the destroys food of live the as healthful a disposition proper up chemical is almost insure to taken the which sunlight, exercise in supply to and assist to the sanitary- night inhaled when in abundant it is most sorts, but Cooking and day sary neces- that under disease-preventing found it is housed tissues contained it is measure a air the something that what it is that fresh have in health-giving, possesses kept well have aid to course which must It and something is also it is understood It must air. body the Of the to goes there. fresh and life are of plenty lungs occur as care things other II., there be and to the in that fowl. of have conditions. oxygen Chapter in herein 31 CHICKS RAISE TO combined and it is taken pancreas, body what the in and building is returned meet to they require chemical the up to mands de- and mation transfor- food heat. the is further Unavailable and the breaking circulation 32 back carried and voided food taking up heat to How Some a fat and as system regulator and brief within will of using their food to fuel, used feeding scratch frequently that strong sings as healthy place and much athlete or equal who in deep she eggs is they too the man who much even takes a "physical endurance, normally good of and and health laying to of a them birds will they for be should will be busy by have to eggs, the in channels. proper making the growing or assist to living a her the produces that is and flying behind dust hen the well. generally a the where necessary is this aid an Keep the with hatch will but prove scratches usually that deeply as consider, the or food that litter Exercise urging. have exercises the works opportunity health, hen, perature tem- roughly conditions fat. or grain heat body subject and normal of it is seldom hens to in hard well tissues flesh active fertile germed, is possible their busy tail seen repair the the only to through under additional of The With without man it. for the in forming portion a advantage which food, exercise, into best the tain main- so subject Breeding, do to and is feeding. food. exercise of heat control to importance of assimilation proper plenty diverted fowls, system. which the should and trol con- under the patience foods vital into goes physiology" of and the covers and time time of the nervous health the out Through- is under Whether in ways. insulation by with this surface feathers. degree. down is have as this the production slow, or it probably find "boiled heat of with the of all voided against of rapidity all the While detail must burned their variety from part a proper same a expenditure excite rapid be the stock Without activity, with is more form the the at body Exercise " to to in body provided heat control system. understanding and after contribute maintained in the regulation, of about of Exercise. fowl is began hours muscular all radiation by is this power the scientific outline of heat nerves temperature body poultryman better of fowl the have without the and which eight body, breath, by clothing delicate regulating the intestines or tissues, the to exhaled loss rapid with remains and six the of the production, temperature is disposed some healthy production heat the of lost is the a expended the in Too heat in some organs down Heat off life of of These the body heat? and body the of occurs crop, of normal the of body. the of the refuse maximum breaking carried is droppings, the with CHICKS production. is production the mixed the activity and building share and RAISE The into The meal. the be to droppings. as with of TO HOW to take good thing. torture" disease naturally. it overtrained The exercises same but necessary, resisting The exercise sufficient thing, it is Given exercise. force is power applies seldom of to the your HOW fowls. Let them them work isn't that of out and ALL of by Try Give to the it has throw If out permitted chiefly of quantities drink freely to according as good-sized time and has Poultry the fowls flocks that within the do certain its own in things, if it fuel be can work If fed that under and or fowl chance poultry feeding It is agree must of seldom vary with individuals, have in view. be into in normal not to is just that either on to opportunity There yard? with fowls, quite definite a amount fowl it to left to should, the to some living treat and work. as principle the of bage, cab- well impels amount of wheat, and they let of as life conduct a good. often of plenty by attempting gained given a go of roosting boxes of as normal which generally presiding success not the ear do such range are system the do variation the the shell largely before often The able, avail- the quality Nature does way. ordinary an a for has live of wide supplying fowls will when be keeping its nervous things resulting from and rations. interfered results, why the them season. machine results variety. a pieces a fowl the on the These Where a were corn simply before is nothing it will living responsible has and their dominates is have in ever what- on fowl and grit ration confined food will rations, elaborate more There make scrap greens condition as range meat of quarters, own fowl, which organism. not who their have feed good own Supply the green if the Yet, season. good sleeping farmers, or in a inclinations. morbid of good and roots fowl gets balance oats corn, provides farm, of foraging scratch in live to food some to they are chance. own ration her of success bugs, The water. siderable con- fowls your its obliged a a exercise; digestion balance or and its up make extremes. will abundance an their chance them find and worms of the nature seeds, keep runs Give and range and grains on hard them? to to get bare burn opportunity an fowl a not get you between The yours with quarters you food Do them mean " to do excessive should to but want unnecessary give happy 33 grain not Neither to Chance. a their do in amount the chance. a cramped failing sufficient Fowl You feed feeding. strike of food. you CHICKS PART a their in a RAISE for food economy about order. and of the condition run if scratch for part TO balance to endeavor balance a as to its where its similar ration opinions there is in the matter of subject. The needs and at times The saying is reason of the will that not individual vary "what with is one of for to or the the in man's meat pen of beings. who for will the particular particular a subject human seek factory satis- giving by "experts" far liberal gives the on diet body it confined of a has results when difference get together fowl ration own achieve own the wide will you the conditions diet group object we is another's 34 HOW bane" this also will saying for, and If not be Sea if our they they in less poultry with they content, well fed To and our them keep content, true. feeding, salvation fowls, not not CHICKS the none own are are RAISE is the Study sense. contented. it apply seek must we common but trite be may TO certain a when observation own not are well well well agree dis- experts comfortable, and extent fed cared and fed and for and cared they will comfortable. beach poultry good, hatchable house, driving free eggs. fowls (Photo up breeding sturdy hardy, These plant. the for range from by healthy Dr. the Woods. rocky stock birds on a Rhode produce Mrs. beach.) Woods an Island abundance is at practical of right of CHAPTER Care and IV. of Management IMPORTANCE ^HE first be may breeding for has been desired, So chapters. preceding observe HEALTH, else feed house, other for fail making teristic charac- that do, the keepers flocks you and in foundation a first qualities emphasized or for " giving precautions strains Whatever here: after poultry vigor their in aging man- HEALTH such many ordinary even constitutional sound for and " and feeding always vigor health to place to and constitutional sound as breeding, of fowls Breeders I repeat BREED FOR for manage health and comfort. Like does in the type is time, breed to Handle every Pick deformity. breed cockerels, depended and other that sure one are all it is in of has the foundation You birds. lack They good, cannot use too Unless vitality they cannot live, their offspring. to time any be get great the in care losses your breeding expected Breed in to fine 35 the little stock impart feathers quickly that chicks succeeding possess you of in be specimen details vigorous tions. genera- breeding your due are vitality, if the These of are out get healthy, selection that breeding, sick. the be diseased or for sound, into pullets cannot Fowls bird seriously vitality and old, and without for any males Immature to old an of alert internally condition vigorous at cannot that vitality. use lots fullit. shows breeding. overfat for that months liable very be importance, you Remember of sound, been greatest are in your and birds. twelve results must you never stock under may When way. that old, years old very for flock perfectly-formed, active, it as foundation of vitality or much as a all specimen very satisfactory five vigorous, every birds in and full-grown, young quite build to Avay possess discard rule, give to that health good-sized, a condition. breeding some as or, upon four three, and out Never females. and bird safe strong, birds in chicks young from only specimens, healthy grown, only in disease of prevention all is plumage. or like begets The chiefly to a an abundance of or the to will, but power don't let Z6 HOW blind are of -^vell known least was and had, when were in physical which described a of the was When yard." slightly deformed purchased Corn from back, and me bird he had crooked I had great a you breeding whom in at plumage, breast. ing breed- a and specimen slightly tail, WTy Two confidence I to cause I purchased husky, healthy arrived that diseases, yet excellent Once a decidedly a in whom of one parties, frequent me, as purchased poultry while development. to astray fanciers, on these sent the breeder a authority specimens sadly lacking male "boss the I have reliable from far so you occasions an birds buying lead and considered because complain several established is CHICKS plumage On all else. to birds have beautiful for fondness your RAISE TO females beauti- were break for ideal wind an piled against a wire fence makes The White Plymouth Rocks scratchingplace for breeding stock. stack fair day in the illustration enjoyed the south side of this stover every all winter hatched well and of that and long they gave a good yield eggs Dr. chicks. Woods.) (Photo by produced strong healthy an stover outdoor ful to specimens showed breed keep them Comfort By " When healthy " in one is the viewed when breast I had Although them. Housing. management at crooked decidedly back. not look paid bones, a breeding deformed have selected you by good the on fair housing, a ground. deformed price for specimens good and shoulder these you sound, healthy food, them Handling good formed de- birds, I would invite trouble. breeding care and stock, good w^ord, COMFORT. keynote to keeping fowls healthy, happy and con- outdoor iave will range, you fencing wire \long :er t does not )irds do A^ill not your exposed in as consider the and the production birds only the the with fed not thing Number experience abandoned I have in aid an breeding For and ration moting pro- essential appears trouble. and that eggs of As matter a want years supplementary a as Here, flock, the chicks. mash time least is mashes well-made of the You breeders. to spring. happy. many dry and sort some or less tendency to cause less a dry you to cook overnight a in its of number most ovv^n bowel action three Mash won't out do supplied or it by by or which combinations fowls, Dry times a harm and may may it in do be a used, to cut rye, shredded green clover alfalfa corn hay, or fresh fodder, or cut fresh food and green cut 10 plement supIf it allowing Mash. short as good. is excellent: Best pears ap- fluids month it and scalding mash it is not because four six or is always digestive the cooking five or there trouble. probably from any of heat, the mash, moist same ration get the will used the food. grain and daily fed are before kept are than gets grain hard dry, or indigestion to trouble and so are mashes dry week, or moist either a other There of eggs mashes, freely eaten does moist mashes doors important birds sturdy strong, of out of yield. After or off in better occasionally. times so will produce both is better mash Where more most the getting flock rains be The and breeding importance. feeding continuous egg to will that with and the eggs secondary poultry the It to early fowls. contented they when winter management of the comfort Feeding " most and well is of eggs with Feeding. to get the the comfortable, birds the and the give chilling winds. place some fall, winter late must hatch will of in concerning keep .in huddling or winds weather then will They seasons in bad about in cold water. bet- eggs. and from in all at out go scratch about run ice matters Foods of trying and snow other attendant is to chilling to all good any in to doors place to outdoor birds the of ranged or admirable of to heap or hatchable protection ample have them outdoor house, keep to out doors the an scratching of stover, corn more run can have they of help compel out go squatting than house the much about paddle to birds will securing outdoor an they that See to. makes in to are you Provide opportunity an vant that mean food. seek break, fowls the that front and aid an prove it is said When :o and condition all seasons at place scratching wind a as south the near when always stack, pile of straw a litter, placed good iny that find and winter, in range CHICKS RAISE TO now 38 pounds cooker. the lowing fol- Plow Wheat TO CHICKS RAISE 39 toran 10 Cornmeal Buffalo gluten Wheat middlings Best fine Best commercial Table in hot give what Some and a water will they that The the The grains. labor as a as the be may The is the ness damaged not at ration. Simply in scrap the plan but the by this system rats so and happen with old Hand loaf hens that one feeding the only mainly by as dry. cracked or structed well-con- a automatic feeder you wish the supply to locality. is free from is the have can let the to no often as sweet musti- or in economy price ble availa- Sound, mold is using Such low. are than you is that in Some seldom to as the until had always requires two the There some localities but old been all flocks used regular are hungry are with waste and hens, to beef keep each the feedings balance will weather liable again. and to fill up This is most grain this favorable hand-feeding of be grain, Under trouble. the the of some this to will grain much own and objections are little is ample they and partments com- their and hopper can. cause mix and oats, barley rest will they or do food flocks range individuals the will balance wheat, corn, several with hopper a birds of fowls mice. around that or your There use. cracked The unless many convenient is fed be fed quantity because fowls, particularly some hopper with and of feeding, to ranging, if you corn, better occurs and compartments chief is mash should according grain just plan keep much and stolen good filled. ration that up; months some hard, dry, whole in is fit to grains separate compartment time fed, mentary supple- minutes. to twenty and to favor mix little toning a Moist any vary of "heated" feeding, it is a then this price. any hopper sound, may that "heated" "cheap" For kind only or it. cut dry and week ration and long. prices been any for it feeds mixtures not be disposed because prevailing has pounds Give need a fed, hopper I am it all day grain the that grain and want dry and pounds 5 added fifteen times The be hand feeder. saver birds pounds 5 food hot. to in from in condition should been not seem may food. animal has but three or variety automatic salt birds feeding seem the warm readily up of ration regular the the it twice or scald when clean birds These which when time supplementary moist fed to I feed all. 10 scrap Feed times at months at be feeds. food not is to ground pounds Vz pound mash with the pounds 10 scrap fish salt If the alfalfa (white) beef sweet pounds 10 a at the does not common method. day, with HOW 40 beef fed scrap and grain take a show part of the little, or grain of for preference time, mixtures grain any Spring Best cracked Whole corn Hard red sifted Coarse solid amber heavy Oats that less run may be prices and the Whole Best Grain it. of be running than 34 pounds each. of should heavier to pounds pounds 30 pounds 10 pounds 10 pounds oats Feed the weigh less than grain Winter Mixture. Five five pounds pounds amount of of of the beef 30 pounds 35 pounds oats, oats, according or to or both may market Summer Cracked be prices may and Coarse of oats sifted pounds and beef barley if desired. for to the better. pounds substituted for the for entire 30 pounds 40 pounds 15 pounds 15 pounds 5 pounds scrap corn get Mixture. oats of kafRr the convenience. Barley Ten pounds substituted corn white pounds 10 be Wheat Heavy 25 5 barley either to dry, the scrap buckwheat or the bushel. pounds 50 oats sifted Coarse can you and is sound it is, if the the be according value best wheat should light in weight. too are barley, for corn white good pounds red to Wheat Heavy next four 10 Oats corn cracked to if they 40 pounds 42 bushel or not enough are the for change. 38 to the oats for to Mixture. such from them mixture Here 5 may out through- and the save same: substituted price favors quality the of use it in of more get less Fall oats Barley and get large watched are scrap substituted money. bushel, fowls oats wheat if the the they adjust barley beef white Barley your white white wheat best The but can you feeder a wheat full-meated Good the amber or with feeding busy built, such for and birds I like they mixtures, corn clipped Heavy Best grain the keep they grain suggestions and of use more. scattered scrap food. Properly grain any slight if they and day. or coarse green the desired. as bushel or loss and waste greater much of require CHICKS else or day a feeders labor, prevent the hopper feeding one Automatic feed the in RAISE TO may be substituted for five pounds each HOW Grain Variety I feed Sometimes I because and made am Cracked Clean wheat Kaffir corn white all at pound should be used and Food. the animal best none reliance for all beef and the meat, be rather feed. Scrap scrap of certain is soluble wheat a rather fish On full the is a or hot lot of free of from poison your It is that color, should be scalded white much particles meal meat a should and our no strong, always offensive is not on fit to breaking fowls. product a the be feed. some have show and fit to as when to enough, well lumps there fertilizer lumps as coffee scalding like scrap that always are has contain life seldom there is not scrap corn dark uncertain bone. in insect it is very it is poor of coarse, and be stinks to If at grain This other and beef beef medium light to a is damp, that is almost Fish that scrap of crumbly. dry and Beef best of name be odor, should rich, meaty odor. size from Commercial The should period short a had. the sick. moldly it. and stock, but breeding for be fowls well, stir it around feed dusty or trouble. seasons. scrap should portion, for under the are sound sweet, musty feeding you shells, These good, make to between before keep oyster Moldly, before oven even to are Only bugs, grasshoppers foods masquerades bone when use water. drinking mixtures, grain should you neglected. the of Worms, " sufficient is when a lot a save Animal Good to grit, crushed or pure choice hot a scrap it is liable as scald in it out beef and be above to fowls, then dry and bone fed, come it will supply pounds satisfactory very gravel not in be never the but found be clean granulated it should starving 5 will times and should down, 1 scrap grain food the to should water beef mixture charcoal, time feel pounds moulting. are essentials sweet, 4 V4. pound sifted addition grains of pounds seed seed variety poultry that pounds 6 i^ pound fowls main 8 flaxseed in the pounds Whole birds times 20 V2 pound This are pounds millet Coarse work pounds Golden Hemp any 40 oats sunflower mixture grain 20 buckwheat Russian of variety follows: as screenings Silverskin grain sake the variety a wheat Heavy all for year, cheaply, same corn Whole your Mixture. of the season buy to approximately up the at any able 41 CHICKS RAISE TO and by-product contains of some a large centage per- fish-glue fac- HOW 42 is sold and tories animal a good a substitute poultry for food for RAISE TO for When feeding. and fowls part of the a CHICKS chicks beef good of added scrap. mashes to Don't it makes quality feed and fish used as from scrap a hopper. animal best scald or mash the the (beef scrap should fish dry codfish salt When used so feather and and cutter fowls be may fed preferred Milk is excellent but should Food it. they egg hang up want to. eating and get or pen, and when be had hung meat a where up time a can through run then little at a it the excellent are scraps. all ages. of either always Can be sweet fed either sweet always or or See sour. Green The Foods. live cells will and cabbages, cure keep are health. sound turnips, scorbutic anti- an know food raw and vents pre- vigorous. Raw and apples waste keeping to live some Travelers Live scurvy. necessary III, contain food green them beets, mangels, and all available helps Chapter in raw to life and and prevent stated fresh of is necessary in poultry raw As " breeding rots car- in birds condition. good Sprouted about oats seven the sprouts too old are before boxes days after from half and they by sweet first put to feed don't stock breeding for are inch an and feeding clean food excellent are into inch an them sprouter Don't long. should be when or let them if musty. Keep the sunning after each and scalding the and get ing sproutlot of is removed. Cut clover vegetable fed fed foods in plain cut clover and cut runs short, but mash a with hay are is alfalfa dry either scald first lightly seasoned dry in up cooked only fowls fed is excellent raw plucks and for and potatoes raw are be or to commercial be is needed. potatoes, best After of Simply like that to birds. pick it when habits is fed). much too with VIII. disease oats eat the Boil or addition confined. let them hanging by them principle that fed fish in before to be meal when of one chicks. and hopper, always must bran mash a liability of bad Fresh for to be Raw how of likely not and cooked fed plain. reach must Chapter food kept are pen out from fowls is less either meat cheaply sour, they where each there be with fish) is growing or pulling. Fresh and in plain should help a left being fed stock mixed or salt-water or breeding it plain feeding is either be and first greedy Salt a feed mixtures, grain for fish and scrap fresh-water (either foods mixture Beef in fish sweet Fresh, the the salt. ample it is not or cut Feed for a moist, hay substitute it may but with boiling but warm one the when good feed for not 100 supply for be water hot. fowls. It is plain. If to that Five other food. raw fed of has been pounds of 43 if weather day a once or Feed of plenty Raw droppings if the Mineral food, but minerals the poultry and may of and grits, and will of and as food building, in for as Where small helps to oyster of unusual Among health shells, silica of our pit, ashes earth, will help monium, am- mineral sand, will some in iron, necessary in and found sodium, the some grasses, coal and potassium, of gravel with in food. salt), carbonate, sulphate and Some and eral min- some range supplied or freely. contain maintenance salts of hard box in the helps in use the are eggs and kept on be bone, fed out the of other source of secure better in plumage. close range powder mineral necessary fertility, better assimilation various maintaining tonic following and digestion and repairing fowls yards valuable large are in supply food. Mineral well A very bone the grit from scrap. on manganese. grains in and beef mineral and found shells oyster fish be grains mash, slight colds Feed and (common in various and magnesium foods readily. in or have brownish. or growth, found also if fowls in minerals sodium of lime plain fed food are the to Chloride are: fowls deficiency necessary phosphate sand be raw wooden a them at get freely the cut in supply can and desirable green the unless there resources fine yellowish Fresh " mild, fed food. and soft are Foods. is day's a fowls where pocket particularly are place and cutter a If weather garlic, chopped and and excellent and vegetable raw onions through run cold. is very netting wire a be chunks large into vegetables rack should vegetables Raw or tissues be must or tissue food, and food of I believe hatchability in the confined will foods body, in very be found that its use better and eggs a in chicks: growth Kiln-dried bone meal Pulverized oyster Potassium sulphate Table salt Sodium phosphate Sodium acetate Sodium sulphate Calcium fluoride Magnesium Ferric or the have salts) phosphate Manganese Use (Glaubers' pound 1 pound 2 pounds 4 ounces 4 ounces 4 ounces 1 ounce ounces 10 ounces sulphate 14 ounces dioxide 14 ounce acid i/^ ounce commercial a pounds 1 10 trioxide Ammonium Silicic shell 5 salts manufacturing obtained chemist through put up your the wholesale powder gist, drugfor you. 44 HOW half ingredients all of above Reduce a to Use half that to of dry CHICKS powder a ground is used and scald thoroughly mash grain chickens for quantity this Where old. months pounds 100 pound birds. RAISE TO mixture from the and Add for adult months two mash mix. feed six to it moist and crumbly. free Ordinarily with crushed and plenty mash, Notes besides eggs, size, fresh clean, essential you the to been used have been kept plan such A 100 Island or from an dry mash ground mash. If beef meal may grain mixtures scant handful give an a Pure, is of course be and will shell your will be up. system, ent pres- pleased straightened a out for a My birds Fowls that stuff selves them- may get so advise not feeding. and have little time a of feedings to White and little out of and to used while require 100 add pounds added. bird a full of from sand or a feed table and straw This is With fed grain wheat each use twice one 100 pounds 100 of bran, and middlings pounds and hopper clean to on results. pounds pounds salt well fat. scratch better 100 do often internal on 200 mixing separately Feed good give gluten, 100 fed of at will WyanBarred treatment. to laying by i/^ pound is not they hopper-fed made Rocks, breeds. lighter different feeder be Plymouth the Cochins susceptible may in litter occasional I do with you it takes the that If you regular of drj' mash scrap per feeding returns method get them suited automatic oats; It is sometimes of I believe that and sometimes cornmeal, pounds meat once clean. kept satisfied not living from to peculiarly good pounds and hopper a is best combination a trial rations on Brahmas, are you are Reds, Leghorns feeding, they in litter ficient suf- living. of Rocks, fowls and of recommended. different a of way of feeding of plan because to months few a order Plymouth vigor built fountains or satisfactory Remember scant on dottes, Rhode this up methods or here you fair a this to it takes My any method first placed when new the than are oftener houses pails ones reason accustomed have the in is superior in health, hoppers daily and rations the as obtained. results become order; If the clean is giving If for plan, give this with if supplied salt feeding of results fill them watered food good that change. flock food bone, raw plan good to reasonably results good plan of feeding to dry my me necessary in many are give equally a claim saving. be mineral health. to There labor should water get sufficient sand. not it gives that not fowls The week. I do " proving it is and gravel simply but to others, of will shells, granulated oyster Feeding. on fowls range pure, of of sweet the whole daily, allowing a feeding. plan of with exclusively well-boiled grain, hopper-fed corn, wheat fowls or to oats. 46 HOAV get soft-shelled you be the square of of the the yard you have to floor, to or grain scratch don't in make in Scratching dust pulverized is be to I have seriously work of out eggs failing to place of way in by birds. the disease decreased hatching, quantity with other the chicks that dry filth, and this of clouds contains dust diseases, vitality of means exercise, house and catarrhal create clean a big mistake. a dust germs sufficient a it is upon is This with litter, scattering That filling the all front sufficient encouraging get. at Where litter of 75 covered take fed. the use in all they spores, that to sand is or in space a ground 65 doors of away hopper results condition, for and for inhale can Remember the use often satisfactory a mold Fowls the birds than out run clear your beach inhaled droppings, vitality. litter and exclusively dirty litter must is unhealthy. you I used fowls. less not them when are white birds deep, that they litter the this of fear no clean use do Allow Let exercise the change possible them clots. exercising of room. bird. per though even yard If you outdoor need exercise, of room year. for pens snow, of blood contain advocate ardent plenty fowls feet seasons but CHICKS which eggs or and RAISE better. Give of eggs enthusiastic an learned TO to and get impair breeding stock, will live not if and thrive. when Fowls about and the ranging houses in moldy and of place if milch cows it will necessary. Too extremes. nearly repairing always In the energy attain for caring fowls is will help well fed, they of keep your in tissue great importance. you. To quarters must not be stock vigorous bear Keep comfortable overcrowded, be will they kept comfortably in them the although happen will tell exercise is Don't they will but up few very to go building give you be to germs. he all. that into development, healthy, breeding much food poultry will Some at needs. apt cow, what day, and none nook the disease yield. so of is too milch every as and and farmer milk their muscular producing in bad fowls your muscle high very succeed in floors the any freely off as contained stringy, tough Athletes to scratching for their Straw compared almost exercise the on dust falling a of exercise it best. ask day convenient some dangerous exercise to in is can like of exercise forced much the contain frequently result You all and matter are that you exclusively litter so in amount straw is this themselves sufficient a the during busy sand hen In so. be white and musty laying inaptly taking clean will dusting run, about, used The and pen I have fed hopper do they put and eggs. not children. mind that comfort comfortable fowls must be clean and and have must well free cared from for for they fortable com- and vermin. Vermin. the bird once a take In a Also time. throwing desired or in use all kerosene glass jar and put before using. ply Ap- roosting before out in house sprayer may should sand or it to prefer mixed little a be vermin containing ashes a bath. moist It helps neither are if dust tobacco little bit dry, dusty with contain coal fine always very a affected Fowls with containing sand size convenient of be fowls, but it must that thinking box a by the enjoyed be happy comfortable. nor fowls the chasing used to have a wild, of It is the birds, breeding is managed for that speech and tame and birds poultry the to run for, well fed, happy, comfort, that keeper most to his on away healthy, the yield flocks, the loud the keep to birds frightened cared with movements, credit no touch close Aim pens. It easily well sudden the handling. gentle lot in about in keep to avoid well, to them observe attendant the for It pays to dry poultry will of fine loam much lice. down keeping and be loam simply The will fowls the and should be powder. insect a over boards in Shake about mistake The it may or in all plumage Dissolve fresh good dropping mix it will that the and dissolve. so thing common loam. sandy moist, good a "bath" The "dust." is the make not do it into roosts with year a mist. bath" "dust A work occasionally this spray fine a morning in the roosts times will than naphtalene more the to three crystals, naphtalene of crude up little keep to clean. following: the like it pays but necessary, On skin. killer lice a or powder; the to down well month it will two pyrethrum Persian ground not reasonably and fowls the Dust " order good in neat, things is cleanliness scrupulous Fussy, 47 CHICKS RAISE TO HOW proach. ap- contented hatchable eggs. Remedies. and Diseases there won't little need for remedies. especially breeding well kept from unavoidable It is or a more known as positus, and Warm, warm soapy the small of cases plan to in that and simple few a be fowls, remedies carelessness through appears will there doctoring and dosing though, Sometimes, trouble sold damp keep or a weather or variety crusts remove cresol start of camphorated potassium crystals, or of soap, of trade liquor or scabs, for cresolis a same com- names. If chickenpox. and two substitute commercial good great may ounce an permanganate some cresol, fluid under water, hand on of quantity creolin saponified and bathe so after parts drying in apply vaseline. camphorated In off diseases from believe and managed properly are causes. good a vaseline, pint ward applied early I don't stock. flocks trouble much be the If " of frozen comb or wattles, rub frozen parts with cold HOW 48 water, rub mouth out teaspoonful one Use needed. as bird affected the which creolin canker all of surface is a it dip fresh the head necessary. yellowish-brown use it pings dropfew a cloud help. solution begins the a a drops little of but not of Where sweet there of creolin away then heal, or through a oil. one straw. Use gill in two of to turpentine of a raw, droppings the soft is and fed garlic, disinfect gallons until remedy attached and noticed worms daily home tube onions ing remov- bleeding. often. good a teaspoonfuls two after without less grain one spots easily germs, rubber about of or use Chopped are on of permanganate canker tube worms of mixture this comes to crop, proportion glass a crush cause, in that parasites, into tablespoonfuls with mix Mix and if air, to other dust sugar; mass and syringe, a enough mouth. treatment, can or the the water. daily to of above warm wash camphorated roof tomato a droppings powder through on clean introduce rubber oughly thor- noticed, as rub the to repeat or fine cheesy blown intestinal For also to powdered the be may to fighting from of ounce an like just soon then in soft exposure water, crystals potassium It drinking the pint green on green cleft of can bowels, as and the solution; the them water promptly a or then color, milky. it turn For to in turn in pail a of looseness For to in it take into in and vaseline. respond not creolin of feel normal warm and do that colds For with nostrils the of sneezing nostrils into vaseline CHICKS camphorated and colds and and the of some sudden For of in soft until ice or snow RAISE TO water. hard two is V. CHAPTER EggsforHatching EGGS CHOOSING [N medium are As should be large that large should shells limy having discarded, send is fatal When time. does he If seller. the good, of instead hatching, to ill shaped, you buy you ' sound-shelled eggs cull Sex the In Eggs. of If shell the breeder a direct there second a normal, good, to should and for buy you complaint a be break to in when entitled not long position of Several ceive re- the known well produce males and that the absolutely is ascertained English of likely as when to the writers, and the male predominate male's to the theory in strength the of vigor and 49 one of the years ends would belief, hatch be may as early in from his vigor American, attribute male and bird, Briefly, ground. chicks to hatches. condition good duce pro- have wrinkled ones this for to supposed recent round than more on is full test of having those smooth, certain been also the old. centuries is egg as writers or few a their has foundation no making chiefly sex base that by cell air the of of sex foretelling of theory mentioned are eggs eggs There The formation the by the determining of way egg. long control season, the of that apparently are known no Horace, sex. Several effect hole a stock, Those should apt trade don't breeding belief pullets. the you the expressed easily The the is chicken future males. would eggs shell are enter are with hatching. eggs eggs, good, make healthy appearance writings indicate normal clean, more checked or embryo. thin-shelled poor, hatching There " the by the of the leave used. eggs. of chick sex and contained the to not from warts be Eggs out. the lime incubation during that these as produces safely seamed on eggs containing for excrescences small always can those saved be not producing very culled rough, which those fowl hen a be water-marked, or they and eggs should yolk one thin, should When normal are the for large very rejected. Abnormally off rule, a eggs than size average or them. select hatching, for the is they the to cockerels season pen. (sexually) it Later decreases, in the the 50 HOW number of bird pullets in his apparently the the from which do we control of developed is in April. There of the have take the control eggs or by handling Fertility done of been that on be will determine for which condition they puny are or get weakling may weak be selection fertilityor broken is running, not and and are or be the observer whole, it is fertile non- It can't shell males of can the until the egg is there egg no has days. depends chiefly and the eggs many food. that the on allotted females kept do to one If the not male, the breeders hatch ing breed- of the condition conditions in poor that duce pro- are well or chicks. fertile or which grace infallible stock. experienced an the well cessfully, suc- good by the shell you do can you incubation. egg With whether of are will with few eggs number you Eggs germs a fertility of stock, the under flock a the examined, not. or how before If is yolk fertile from determined whole. egg the asked frequently am be late regu- gives any either may can as breeding the of as discover chicks, This will get with will anyone we you long as prone this that chicks, you future management I " can it is incubated The Eggs. the spot to and egg keep whether known test an and germinal say of of as mating line chicks that sex the same of sex the in far so are and matings, in sex when males. produce particular a sex the probable of or of regulation families to some and generally dependable prove at largest the for some prone and control from or that equally desired whatever for known bird the it It is not rule fertility male to of usually change which proposed seem birds of the a none well others of breeding possible. fact a solution and as far thus breeding percentage continue but question that usually season, prove elements, the fact are breeding been not other into season, have considerable cock methods the does known undergo the and and some true of of obtained, pullets that enter w^ell a out through- be in however, probable the of testes theories It is If you larger to to the it. a height females apply prove the chicks, male the the at test. produce will of and 100 to This, It is early 90 appreciate, or male majority a could as cockerels it is highly the vigorous have to males from chicks. offspring. the many of sex 150 and organs are put to the to in seasons best of understand not sex two-thirds when pullets predominate. on vigorous as and thing later July hatches, theory, generative different and hatch a the disprove season, However, strong common while nearly later, in June obtained the had healthy, a flock,with same has writer while or season, CHICKS increases. equally it is early in the From RAISE progeny remains entire cockerels the TO and poorly yet not nourished, hatch because well. of This poorly is because the balanced egg HOW food or This content. to for forced and is taxed die all in keeping germ too trouble from eggs chicks for the keep and care sense be eggs to and then removing hen that and to carefully handling or A avoid The 40 The even more been a for I do keeping the eggs better. They be may when stood eggs do end down kept on not and I believe without woolen be regard cloth that as or room, need to in ordinary egg in this If such the blanket eggs. for wire or for a in clean as and the for length the for get eggs hatching. fillers,but pasteboard place and sweet. carriers egg at the which is dry saving any days few handling is used, have Eggs be air not degrees. 60 room should particular. should of time, eggs the large so. best the during is necessary. kept go The in clean case a eggs eggs this the while if kept in them less turned cases the chick Handle above the The be the hatching are for devices manner, well. them to not and purposes. not as eggs where turning egg do leave the ventilated milk duced, pro- of of of for was number up for degrees. 85 it eggs. neglect by keeping and well kept in end hatch year which purposes incubating They by better 75 leg band broody intended egg where shaking the between for in ered gathing frost- or becoming Each intended eggs be hatch. temperature, believe not a should well a many and should as to common should are hatchable bad Fahrenheit hatching of kept are eggs and good identification of A every room the purpose storing ruined the the temperature good remedy chilling is allowing number pen fertile spoiled that with handling. for degrees ruined wholesome a of the of has are temperature fall below the chilling than hatching. the possible rough place eggs for with source shipment Many fertile stock and Severe hens under save is for the suitable to where This it. ascertain and quently fre- produce breeding hatching dangerous more marked for injury. prevent nest them be date, and laid Eggs to the in remain should the Eggs." and food good eggs Less Strongly Obviously healthy by Even avoided. the incubation only use after the hatching. well conditions. chicks days several eggs. hatch condition Keeping intervals frequent should to good exist overheating for the mates many management. and Gathering at is in often unfavorable eggs breeders by saving chilling will stock healthy apparently unproductive from result for some injured too conditions such while place a has birds from breeding that and be also may may good, under incubation breeders part of the from male a Where capacity. warm the on results from or of stages The exclusion. or his beyond at debility to trouble 51 CHICKS RAISE due Similar production egg will be may feeding. poor TO plan position to is place to of protect the eggs them the eggs and against to in cover drafts clean them and boxes with conse- 52 HOW with a never be done where mold the hatching for date shell Don't better. the is no need than three will Period hen common even from compiled of a than period longer a for than two kept and they degrees, 60 or climates, warm very week, at or most two hen required time and those Mediterranean American Asiatic or standard accepted the time eggs. considered be may of incubation practically as will and sources of period of length of for for interesting prove the It correct. varieties active small 19 to 20 days 20 to 21 days varieties 26 to 28 days Muscovey 33 to 35 days 28 to 30 days Turkeys 26 to 29 days Guinea 25 to 26 ducks Geese fowl Sum Let's if not allow It does broody they hen not do eggs intend is ten temperature four or hens to chilled times good any to save a remain in days the above nests zero In time. the purposes or such eggs day. in remain them short a in long degrees hatching for to remain to eggs intended are broody allow become to three if you not the liable collected be Do Up. Do " When are eggs should It weather. weather cold was poses pur- Ducks below, is than more some the of incubating for varies " and Large cold at hatch. exclusion is, however, days variety eggs Bantams a There to. comparison: Hens' in the incubated longer above one Bantams of earlier of fowl kinds various for cared good a of successful Eggs table following The used in put when them not dry length The to eggs hatching for required days is where obliged are you than longer for " Twenty-one varieties. level, conditions. hatch often varieties and exceedingly in kept supposed. commonly first should four or Here are eggs if properly still give and or Incubation. of sea ones long. keep to not degrees 40 favorable under weeks this three incubation for conditions, days safely be intended below altitudes, high the than longer it is better ordinary not cannot eggs and in too fresher The " any eggs twenty-one keep In keep weeks, temperature a Kept. them keeping of Under weeks. Be May and box of them any but above cover help. a proves Eggs Time another to keeping avoid to the on shifted be high Once to necessary evaporation, unknown. is be may climates dry very mustiness it prevent to in except and can eggs blanket damp them altitudes high In evaporation. quent CHICKS RAISE TO for the nests for used several hatching by hours purposes. the ers. lay- under the same time Eggs should weeks is before it that or under Dr. of If ;ind hen of water cliicks Woods.) have possible, very all a the Little used in do same (-arinj^rfor Kliode the tray one good. any the Three or set egg hood likelieggs when egg in an less not one At trip. older and germ times them. The fresher in eggs Conipton, them Preferably The the nearly wa.uon on old. weeks do safety. the chick. strong a two the incubating of of vitality hundred a during not before limit the getting does eggs long too maximum lower than one Food by is better. hen-reared the set more are the is receive eggs jarring kept be not and trouble, the jarring and CHICKS the causes the shaking probably is there the than dangerous more whr.t is cooling and up RAISE TO HOW 54 set machine age. many flocks Island, eg"^ of hen-hatehed, farm. (Photo CHAPTER Incubation VI. IS IHERE than well surrounded by Reader, there world the into the incubated, short nothing mal good reasonably food, wholesome within have we Chicks are hatched. chick season nor given be to kept attendant to and a of care Why, in ply sup- selves them- is then, difficulty of The and, need take to live; to it. quarters taught sound, born sensible a thrive normally vitality comfortable they and kill simply With comes and eggs will health from practically abuse quickly each complaints many "0 after days few a is not? that properly wonderful providing are and actual happy. they the you. for live to With Do why animal equipped chick of thrive. will by new-born possesses and needs, their to of it care, contented comfortable, minister chick breeding hen healthy, for. to stock, " cared kind, chicken. breeding healthy well mother given well so springtime sturdy, if not, no domestic the as probably is of and that proper flock are care of thoroughbred up, fine that possess With set a chicks downy PICTURE PRETTIER NO proud, a Artificial and Natural " it that rearing chicks? The today. are breeding fowls surely a big are part and weak for conditions, the specimens out chicks in a are less are is naturally and season brooding is bred. inbreeding wiped show pen. stamina plumage, good this out resorted stock the overlooked and "fix" practiced hardy of to ago. artificial persons 55 or who have their of form requisite, that In ing try- do constitutionally standard methods for Birds under to perfection extent an or hatching. distances secure would they expected desired long race for few keeping to market for diseased some to season by used long to Very that pushed then are hatched are attention condition is are effort chicks neglected. same shipped and To the breeding room, In been Stock overshown, breeding the from eggs and in normal has give to animals. farm yield, and incestuous and other conditioned in and healthy to give egg careful sufficiently few health for breeding years breeders comparatively that is answer For the would effort of little have to get incubating or no ex- 56 HOW read such with perience do or wonder machines and understand not millions that RAISE who, of many directions the chicks of CHICKS for either operating. well not are year every them, do not it any Is born and do thrive? not the certain most and seasons of egg methods and raise to in Get the chicks good-sized, to her of excitement the place of packed down so dish the hen when she settles clean straw or the her place you are the the Feed leave she and the the feeding hen only provide a for nest time this sit for a day or give her with as many very from spread thin readily of layer Dalmation Pyrethrum). before you eggs until nest on or the away she as eggs sack much it a powder on The into make fresh two best sod too well a confined her burlap a out fresh-ground same the VII.) roll pure, taining con- inverted not spread the Keep not barn, coop is an to will with pure, with more. box the will they box earth little the the can nest slatted by screen. dark. nest water, of no hollow a Over straw stay put, then will front her not the that only dusting Let nest. comfortably closing pure the sure cover Keep in eggs the (use thorough a that so Dust hay. nest them. on powder insect hen so enough not the of or Do fenced-in in Chapter earth Pack selected, small run flurry a sitter good a Coop, with in center. center down soft or Persian Give and in Brood shape. in enough just concave; under dish bunch the out filled be shallow a will Island stick to developing individual choose to is inclined a poor hatches, poor wise quiet place A doors of out others get with nest small a to one ence differ- great a motherly daily. but Rhode should quiet a feed serve, placed (See nest eggs and shallow and into the corners will room a hen. the and if stock. mothers, without good a is that hatches methods, is always hen handled provide hen, exercise It motherly With and natural get good breeding expect it. hatched, by year There " sitters of be can cackling. can nest set bottom that that one storage to may live poor or healthy always spring are to all at I know artificial Hens. good are you a mature a she or With quiet-dispositioned, and where shed make and nest, preferably Some poor that natural sound, yields although each learn to easy that one practicable plants, chicks chicks from Hatches ones large the either the It is not thousand eggs Good broo.lj' hens. With ones. by chicks fresh good, to for is comparatively good with How run It and run. of most four to long favored where two only. starts and farms method natural the in widely not from grow is the results is several that hens with Hatching a TO as dust bath food, exercise possible. and whole on In cold in and cracked the run water weather for once cover her use. daily at the grit and supply corn, eggs Allow as with her regular a to a piece HOW blanket of flannel shows she as an the off long too Do the Keep are in washed As give in soon the nest little too of care 14 Nest chicks than she so can nest can use is made of wide. The 14 box used on burlap, for to remove the eggs the to F. to eggs remain to Remove will the Do hens. not for take to try four a good crowd too Size 14 in. on a Nest If sitters. of good infertile and to to they ones. set two, have Give a from been the four few a chicks too with home, many cloth inches wide inches nests to and box: nest against it is well wire one any- The flve being four back by bottom. no of into is used use four has Dimensions floor less few at slat board floor on protection better when sits made box is divided It her bottom frame. earth an cloth wire plan wooden in. wide. 14 be This the a brood. can bottom has allow to cost. apart, hen whole spoil the Front the give (see Fig. 1) inch one hens. afford It is a out or than tools, at small slats high, piece a sitters made in. Better perhaps or for four room hens If fully care- enough are safe Accommodates comfortably top is solid. door burlap ft. long, wise dead afternoon. Some Rock. never brood. for care back a sitters. one them good who for box into lose A it is off. be chicks chicks 25 to time. degrees quiet. the hatch. 4 ft. in, by many and ]. but in or 15 Plymouth or flocks noon hen; one them keep again brood and the remain to should 104 shells soon hatching they Allow hen. and at coops to Wyandotte larger Fig. by chicks many sized good the to family allow brood all remove hen take about at to the due at to as hen are nest hatch water the hatching after day over under room more one is hatch the as the or chicks the ready until during water warm Dust the off same the weather. her pip eggs soiled or luke chicks the after fouled allow not before days allow or nest, removing Do cold extreme hen dark nest eggs any the is off the return. three powder disturb not hen to in nest Dalmation with the while inclination 57 CHICKS RAISE TO 4 to commodate ac- wall place of nest door, in place of rats. or under six hens the remaining hens at time. one for fertile eggs a week to as Test and many 58 of HOW the hens hens with H. fresh a hens are there merit, and "Among and freedom yard for yard is the teaches her heavy a high perch into bring this. to and is activity proper of evidences diarrhoea for in by too to up these cramped to meaning a and proportion, not Anything is of use ously vigor- of flying again. the A confined sitters and constipation between is the Nature wings if There wings. bowels. the of proportion, large a of down and if there do. her penchant is unless will use and up. Even distance, a a and legs connection close a has kind any of to fly quite she of place and day every of important afforded long with rage hunted most be quite such to and not but will muscles the play There the quite sixty degrees rapidly. run will good sometimes high or and run, them are chief the narrow she and breed, a one Sometimes incubators managing of choking leading ways of to of ways poor of like run other varying without cats requisites room or one, to also. many maximum large a of of the reset methods many as good mighty some plenty her are killing of great number a 'There advertisements the that chagrin are and comfortably eggs. are a CHICKS them cover says: there as There butter. to of lot Stoddard H. sitting it takes as RAISE TO muscles sometimes quarters show and will their layers of turns, foul nests. "Have sort, that if space square, rods rods six or in long each has near each a row yard has other as in of the As a had to a eggs a duck as of the that it. like using, If she water, home and fence sit she to is worth at sundown, nest stands all a a other cent as anyhow, of five the yard of rows nest, these or a required. hen Every sitting breed. else it. fowls of is put and which to of lot a a or Every start. side each two purpose it of rods all alike, and side as the twelve if only even sitter's a everything and has one and the at nests yards that offers looks been to hen fowls in hens laying hold to either serve ten side, and has to twelve or be either on yard is, each enough to of that except a division in fiock adjoining next, yard she large empty note other soon is is intended a is yard "Now, That ten run, by located sitting become they as must way the according to be fences all side are coops fence. coop and other movable division brood, yards These of any division time to twenty, or is supposed but afforded, the of time from dozen a Each on. direction wide. or stock your sitters as four be can the Each coops. with use or operating are you to yards for yards of mean you Two broody. scale number a yard in it and the that looks the fence same a if not she sooner. is are other where she like It has take If she the in position will just duplicate a the exactly surroundings. sitter yard a One over in in sees one regard nest some to not. them does as not. HOW then "Now nest cornstalks, of with nail exactly keg south and north such objects as be is to How hatching them for unskilled the from have time for he he to appears learn take time to make a business think the of it the of hatching that it have we and with this, a safely be can very very it is not take time fear of masters army novelties remarkable to than that with Chinese with get there; he to to the chicks ness aptof perience; ex- oughly, thor- lesson tion, contradic- incubation who ceeds suc- natural a practical of or tries lessons successful of them American to to learn artificial millions by handed sometimes the of experimenters of done directions he attributetd said, without few large producing not the The before That advantage to but study to it. be may take to will an or been hurry a incubator with eggs haste learn he often too and to race of is in time of waste operation spite of heedless in a the hustling the ing alarmof is has are part hatching means With and confidence has the causes centuries, for chicks the generations. many how. learning little when different; for incubation artificial at by eggs apprentice to adepts are concerned hatching of artificial hatching machines the Egypt In incubators. about exchanged similar that to mammoth country and constructetd poorly of use good art counts country the master been things often of use experts; down to due in undoubtedly but knovv^n used or that incubation times, was the today, Egypt country, this in to authority in artificial It isn't in is, yard." hatched be idea ancient wholesale near, eggs good on prevail customs mortality are it have well. to thrive chicken losses We similar and ovens their brought ovens, chicks. and far from people this ing incubat- commonly were by the hatched were eggs the and these and Egypt, run of the incubation artificial brooders a side prominent The In " with end another Incubators. world, fireless has south shade. is in of fences where and she With the to fowls adjoining badge west or is coops coop side the that in is the division at roost a that know Hatches The chicks. such exactly came yard short, another lot of a bundle a nest keg the shade different box, in north yard, by for the of madam Good in incubatories end is Suppose bower A these nail a fence of occupied yard have let side profession. anything, if and farm recognize each. Have the over the to at or instance, same and south the Christianity the said the layers object position. roost not practiced rear and Get to before and same done to course, then it at the a in Why yard. of in whatever, disgrace board a For coop, like to the of part aid prominent. between. nest To or somewhat be fence particular or fencepost a or Row distinguishing some to enough big pairs a have coops Sitter's another to precaution. little one 59 CHICKS RAISE removed is in again allowed never she it that to see TO seem results. are in our mere sidering Conill born 60 HOW and do fowls domestic But, frequently but expert incubator advice STUDY can LEARN AND If you manufacturer and. your own USE ONLY given APPLY get good But do how GOOD hatches make that intend The incubators is FROM it up put that sure the the to fault 'em, BE SOUND, to TIONS. DIREC- way, hatch to an summer. a with at carefully don't makes first make EGGS, FRESH get them MANUFACTURER'S results you artificial following to beginners THE condi- from undoubtedly swallow to it hard. matter no results good successful one TO cannot and than be under our animals. sufficiently two or more any that one vitality of thrive and them of some the for hardy report themselves apply they and do. live do less novices directions, prepared chicks many quickly they Sure first, when well It speaks season. so CHICKS RAISE exterminate say, you methods. best that would that tions each thrive not TO is not SURE HEALTHY TO ING BREED- STOCK. beginners Frequently and new clean from sound, leads to little to think "the wise and Incubators large scale. In of simplicity brooders such buying lasting, "improvements." changes in add same to the and and have we facts new essentials, chief When buy, get you too much stock well-written, it is an well-printed and personally, given that because to whom you exclusively did not the for good a one from is know have party is often one have is counts you so your found an in someone written in that and to for whom who to give facturer manu- take and get giver of Most than to a that mendation recom- fidence con- it to heard references? operation. have you makes the of one only The portant im- any Don't the Whoever it easier anity Christi- the easy ad circulated. successful of are good benefit. plenty asked They one is understand. can testimonials. printed inducement can ficial arti- that than and and not frequent learned Simplicity understand and ing "talk- but mind has construction of way in a sales," and older who methods. you a added, "helping centuries anyone merit and Bear on plausible of of purpose matter in earth green practical construction many such the yourself growing poultry get machines. are machine a in that servant in demonstrate can the concerning both in the for discovered yet ness careless- permit frequently and Novelties brooding not eggs sometimes then this on Beware operation. efficiency of incubating try to construction, chiefly are Never for necessary machines and points," complicated don't are construction easy, is learning." always are fresh good, and nobody poultry;" all about everything however, so downfall. the begins have to success, it looks because on, know "you Such breeders. later first because at enough fortunate are essentials that and they healthy disaster in does, and successful are a of you poor 'em refuse. HOW 62 the seventh the chicks day chicks give them and can Chicks air excluded fresh too much not beneficial the having incubators Some or pans sand trays in air While possible through it has been in shell the chamber egg through i"? drying needed of Conditions after the in you warm. breathing ventilating as is supply off. dry are of moisture far fresh sufficient its lungs. draft so the egg injurious loss a incubation toughen. to current much comfortably they to go Too of of a the than air forced a begun even avoid to them through in resulting much, keep and is strong a all on while to harm. stages need and allowed membranes give them shell sometimes is early first test time be may to chick the breathe and air and too eggs the to begins and time of the pipping doing the failure line which vessels the they hatched have when different very blood the in time pip. At to and same by the without hatched the from temperature moisture at they after the degrees are CHICKS begin eggs injured often are fresh are eggs degrees 105 lose the 103 ventilation much After RAISE out even too the harmful, the hatching or and cooling until are degrees 104 first week, the during grees TO by the down chicks. moisture plan use this drying down process. it Ordinarily the It outside is not below or to are machine. provide F. them. F. protect day. Do When testinjr tray. If bottom too quickly. Little old. With at which Do not not chicks ture tempera- ideal for bator incu- and the lamp cannot fresh air for the egg desirable, the enter in the also bator incu- the of purpose chamber. except to tray is the remain that have a An walks as the below eggs as conditions in temperature the glass by a protect well in as the incubator doors machine, the and continuing the eggs day the temperature any and let and on of hours 36 turning eggs to at exposed duplicate should incubators above outside by hand stop turn cooling when of Try and incubated been time testing both eggs or are eggs expose In testing. the they of not preferably have they hatch. they while turned, be after 18th that is machines. of should almost entering fumes floors fairly uniform. temperature ventilation good the, lamps lamp is F. abundance an by where room fairly constant A F. manner a a outside the degrees in maintained where has such for cement best; is rows daily test room concentrated the until the It is required Eggs twice provided Always floor until degrees in be degrees 80 60 away preventing between above carried room. earth or and 50 operation, fumes an incubator an can incubator run degrees between operate to temperature room wise 40 best is on alone which you below 40 degrees below 60 degrees blanket. flannel warm the bottom the top hen's until it is well of the the eggs egg cool nest. about to 36 darken hours the HOW front while door of the to stay the on good any they as When open the incubator tack into the a piece of knob the to of Bear degrees mind above or eggs remain tray and confine the on or to the regulator to the opening of heat run they good a matches. are plan to Drive a attach and of position this to wire the and about and open secure should arm the in top the incubator, and operators should air to of wood of the laid moderate of regulating the of galvanized outside metal the run attached disc close as maintain condition such ing turn- center flame If allowed to of ous danger- while pieces an plan, heater. losses comparatively a the lamp a adjusted be of 104 about. having air hot superheated much the the heating over- of more eggs adjustment an incubators by in smooth with in is the of rolling close as result and them small, eggs cooling, temperature a testing, only place incubator With frequent to handling of the your heated too in them doing. Overheating after means prevent to and it requires is in disaster Rough When, by possible. as it end same eggs well. machine, the them to height heater iron so door too the invite hatch cooling. in try medium device other and of to do injurious. tray egg Always the hold by front ought do not before two or of the will exposure liable is is also them few one above much too if they even prolonged than or door that prolonged chicks, two It does off in chicks degree. in and the turn incubator the desired the A off. dried of machine the of wire. little wet chilled well width cloth or department nursery are the dried are 63 paper The become to chicks door front soft they cooler liable are little the until the into heavy a hatching. are eggs tray egg hanging by the fall to dried, well machine the of CHICKS RAISE TO possible as to the degree proper is injurious embryo the to high too run chicks. Incubator and brooding be is hatching and been is usually running vitality as hatched The best each those from back artificially hatched results year which of and are possess of stock generations, stock; not can- method breeding the not and poultry, there the eggs, the same generations many of chicks. succeeding Mammoth breeding incubating normal several fertile, do percentage stock where for the in rearing of plants brooded machine that natural, the poultry and lacking fair a excel or On hatched something though each equal brooding. machine has hen to mind in artificial method purely a expected bear in by hatching. purely natural Incubators." reared and generation until It is a methods Within it stock apparently difficult becomes wise plan of hen the past to grow hatching few years lose a and a obtain to few hen there trifle the breeders rearing. has been 64 a HOW tendency to methods the sizes from coming 50 or chambers heated loday fojnd in machines hot water in of or egg the by in tors incuba- water small specially a to reach of and economy small than the incubatories coal 1,000 to from or in sizes of the lamp moth mam- These eggs. ent independ- burning coal more machines that still but are there yielding they certainly best makes heated of system efficiency operation and water having Such operation machine large but cellar. in hot 60,000 maximum of be to are incubators one built ease ovens advancement heated hatching them sands thou- great were greatest individual the hatching of incubating. from holding of the before heating order better incubator water hot these such find filling and to radiator individual the well series number In results. as a as require considerable a ahead quite or perfecting need good pipe They heaters. are another one of capable really are of Fresh 1. and dung; we represented incubators return to unquestionably, capable Orient burning Today Egypt. incubation artificial the in by Fig. hot and heated incubators, used were eggs, small own lamp some incubation work. mammoth ago its to eggs, excellent Centuries of again 200 to eggs doing are back the Even days. earlier of be to seems artificial investigating those among CHICKS RAISE TO are hatch incubators. poultrymen Some a How once germs, hens good fertile the the resetting are by started ones in quite a should be are from eggs to get fill for tested home a of the at are a can machine. of cooking of to the eggs are save the week. first well them cover number the stale of the end saves too practical out the hens. streak." as incubator, This that and the as the at and eggs. sufticient an tested fill hens fresh as possible end the at tested well under time ''blood or many to hatch. number eggs good heat radiation eggs, same eggs germ as to the at the with to obtained with Infertile are hens hatching been popular to hens incubator, to given of have Dead 2. eggs the water or from or fertile, it is often testing eggs other enough not air Eggs " machine set are it is difficult When hot by infertile the the percentage Fig. giving and from sitters the 65 hot of Incubation. incubation of a hatched diffusion by During Eggs number a of chicks removed running time that during least When believe CHICKS drum. Test to dead not RAISE hatched heated air hot TO those than better HOW eggs of and to hatch and avoids well plan the be can fertile the when works there and hand on week a time The sitters lation accumu- enough well and is poultrymen. incubator purposes at and the often end of bakers a week will be 66 HOW glad and be If cooking, New they as testers, equipped electric light, of good egg a that is enough of board this and diameter holes these old rubber holding place? in up a window make two four boot to sunny soft a the tack the them do apart about hole window soft in or pad eggs to can be 7th day. You very small such tested the the a egg very long center in of edges leg against board, All inches the from make and the Near About be cost. wide or gas can can one-half cut press lamp, of edge). piece a With testing. the to Box these Any and artificial room. with room. one (edge dark a turers manufac- other or inches ten the cost. a incubator felt, leather a on for about your holes make home at out used be cannot by use work. reasonable board of for fertile egg cooking tested eggs lamp require good at use pine inches soft to of carefully for flavored. with reflector houses daylight for is fit in to and supply tester needed most those testers egg them hens strong use powerful a under with for in infertile as prove Strong germed 3. poultry to test eggs from eggs testers excellent are sold supplied but use, Fig. bought out are with be liable are simple to easy should to necessary clear, infertile only Tested these are is, however, they incubators and light sold incubator. an for It include to sure purposes. from them. buy to CHICKS RAISE TO fastened of an when in quickly by hold- HOW ing them light which sunlight clean, tested as it and the to of not and eggs did the by the board I necessary. had have shine. not smelly and infertile lent excelIt is a lamps. room, should eggs dead and eggs chance. better a eggs hot above it is sun time save get rid to remaining with away want incubation during gives does not do if you used but the contents egg be testing when 67 the can eyes, when daylight just method easy Kven curtain A satisfactory with viewing and operator's the of very results holes through. shines light out keep to find testing the to CHICKS RAISE TO Testing be germs, is easily A learned a help are whether a few illustrations air The at the such herewith, fresh a cell shows left. an There was a of is dark as the is fertile egg This egg at shadow The seen. days. after days' 14 incubation. photographs, from will prove beginner. 1 shows plainly center the the Figure tester. 4. and to Infertile egg Fig. no or it looks top and the yolk to way not shelled until hen held when the pores is seen in in a tell, without it has egg and been was front the little of the shell egg above the breaking incubated it, for comparatively fresh. Figure 2 shows a dead germ, ''blood streak" or "broken yolk" 68 HOW tested as egg the dark egg. 3 shows Figure and at end large chick embryo Fig. into large the above 4 is air the the days like this in the developed 14 vessels space tester be the brought days' incubation. embryo hatch not was seven air the of often can if the be plainly of tion incuba- balance conducted. an infertile in space center seventh the eggs generally will after also blood could and death after egg yolk vessel This before right and fertile egg blood the through appearing well diagonal of buried. held was egg shadow red fertile the sight at the shelled light properly Figure of out and healthy area, irregular stopped germed also this deep bright out many Strong germed In Eggs is the When egg. was 5. focus. seen. on of tested The to a and strong dark considerable the streak, be good a right started should Note incubation. days' blood CHICKS incubation. the at top the eggs shelled days' incubation that Such embryo. a left, is RAISE few a the from lower indication the after out line, running at TO of day machine egg large the used was no the and This egg. and it end for days' fourteen after egg shadow of should have cooking longer fit for purposes; use. incubation. the Note flattened been after tested yolk out fourteen CHAPTER VII. Chicks Brooding With lEFORE TAKING want to a say about one day are ready brood her coop should rain cannot the and warm rule face used to within on mother hen, first the few practically brood coop sifted, Fine feed food and brooder pure as range A chicks. and food from that After they grass be placed where the chicks scrap little as food Keep then they should the put and are land can be a the placed in supplied with in colony 71 an start, the in the their coops should coop given be can In cold weather an open shed fresh air food chick coop. manner 50 in run. their Variety for as until mother to or should them giving same 25 reach of mother's brood hen be expensive more indoor grain dry from chicks them have good her should out they in of water the of and corn chicks desired. shelter may front just to a be coop. of pure old week if under chicks are close a of this as shelters the hopper chicks little of waste cannot should sun little tered shel- during sand or by the covered a she the for dry coop front close fortable. uncom- mother supply fountain drinking The on beef in constant a that so some Provide boughs should soon green them days. the before kept first weans coop front open be free hay, screenings, or so Confine mixture. grain the board brood or and wet the brood weather hen clover and box in the for coop. have accessible. feeding a the for easy run. The day. brood wheat reach. The placed hot brood slatted a confined be it too brooding having make be are and hen comfortable and evergreen or a the chopped the should clean easily be the of boards good of in from in chicks mother permanent can to hatched hen little protected should be straw, floor mother hen or coop of the burlap, wheat, fed Cut hen beat not part sunny litter The will it south. canvas, also that so the method, in the barrel or I natural to be case, be It spot go permitted chicks little the old to box that so When should packing front, the occur hours 36 These quarters. coop, frequently to BROODING about flocks. brooded and words do losses since ARTIFICIAL UP few Brooders and Hens a she flock. n HOW Hen chicks the is box It is 21/^ feet and boards cube with has about is hole i/^ inch 4 the inches (see The of and door above diameter Rhode is for brood and with Island brood removable a pitch the and hen combined 2) has double a for coops Fig. 3). stuff addition in brood Fig. board ventilating a best coop (see box CHICKS the brood hens of it RAISE of Island brood for coop One " Rhode the made is coop Chicks. and TO of window closed floor. roof lapped front; by slide a the when desired. In into this the Fig. double removable. This The coop not will accommodate the large enough. In desired a brood the in the hen when the brood lid 4 simply that so allowed it chicks The floor in diameter. box (see Fig. 3) The hen is used as it is when or is soon as range small, are can is 2i/, feet It inches to a front or twenty-fivechicks. and are a coop, hen is just fit end one chicks. boards. box window chicks and and of made above brood a but coop, cold weather for hen coop is coop in hinged a will is in this coop. easily be set to brood has that box chicks for box pitch roof and ventilating hole The leave this hens This coop. opening of Island coop brood slatted back Rhode 2. with cube a box a the of with Fig. 3). (see does half box cracker is used coop rear hatching cleaned. This with hens brood hen box can by simply used be making a in nest the in brood one when coop end of brood the box. The weather the give the and the floor box. of hen when and have As the is whole of chicks more to let space they brood is allowed grow coop 25 always the chicks the brood house the of kept chicks the and and chicks. brood need are confined small. and coop The room. run. coop that more run eventually have she brood rule is brood the Later the first At to is to they left they are is box have in to removed to the given of free a hen the only front practically permitted is keep cold in box the run range. fined con- run of brood outside Each TO HOW With paces five thousand hen mild springlike plan of the of only he fall had Where same comfortable. that Fig. brood constructed it with Make for and a sun. in deep and 3 front In both to run. Fig. high feet are made styles the Fig. 5 and feet of a has This coop a mother Fig. 6 show It light 6 hen a back and to protect coop is the is about has a of brood roof the and which the coops high slatted wide, chicks with 2i/^ feet Door in are run brood gable. slides at against Island in coop slatted flock Rhode ventilator and feet a 2^/^ feet sash, half cheaply shaped with duck ficial arti- over and 2^^ shown This coop. mother. "A" and the sitters. brood simple or two system for hen A " the kept use you advantage base is confined field used cold very are this Island apex is coop good peak. Tent. at square awning be given that play to in With decided floor, solid brood at by is Shelter this loss a would chicks sure be may Rhode Fig. 4) is the tent 2. the (see illustration shelter or of and board Another shown coop, and and hen rain operator 2^^ the hens, Run removable a In peak. the coop Dimensions: front. the Slatted sure quarrelsome. that and and sometimes that make to half rear chicks Coop, brood the coop, house, doors are be to be to hen- record of out together necessary for box where brooding is inclined the teaches Brood coop fit into to order in 864 1908, to this system. used off come It Brood 3. is made hen which one not are coops ready the during uses brood a remarkable brooding for done who April, in and This are in hen grown 864. any brood in well of with brood for care could is breeder field rearing each chicks out hens two more box to 862 these brood hens his duplicate to weather into he as brooding Island field, about a comfortably easily as where Rhode allotted chicks two difficult One put 25 quite in rows to man one brooders in weather. chicks, in chicks brooding hatched for chicks brooded of number same in placed coops possible it is apart, ten brood of battery a 73 CHICKS RAISE cleats. allowed slatted runs, 74 the entire field told that and it was the it woods. the for care How Khode about (Photo by Dr. ft. Chicks Brood high if management to vitality. type the heated for under in and brooding artificial make even cared method, in properly Probably Coop for hen peak. Front chicks grow Careful incurred can inches by no more of the graph tele- wire. walk an losses from the on could in edge stretched apart attendant the used was crows the near used, was Brooders. in brooded natural or and at well carelessly artificial were it was plant The below it Brooder " of door no matter Dimensions, base 2% sash, 6 light. chicks. with and chicks, one-half Woods.) hatched, are five Before located twine that so is this protect taken there I scare. chicks. 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The lids are used only HOW brooder when at hole by 12 8 and Figs. which 13 inside by below the roof. of 3-inch a by a ventilating inches 16 is provided are construction with and of door a and top lids in base is shield and and is top is board fitted inches 9 frame with above made to removable the floor fit lids, front and peak. at hole four-sided a floor of This inches fastened is simply edge wind a inches 5 details For is top vent Lamp mica window and holes Ventilating There 9. the form and back glass around rabbet the side. 79 removable. are side each in each inches. brooder The inches 14 of a and doors of out by has Front inches see peak the slides. 7 inches 5 window used is CHICKS RAISE TO 2^/^ inch a made by tacking the over hole and these in opening protected half-inch nailing over is cleats a sheet of the lamp door the on above tin. 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After two take under more 15 or brooder all they will in the have they must be the if they themselves of Never If You weeks, care moving. confined a wholly closed. two them losses left be ventilate teach elsewhere. or bad the down and them Keep on windy windward the close period. chicks occasions. ordinary all mother infancy the the On time. roof, weather. Never wholly are in cold should and iron the near other heat your fresh of galvanized vents temperature closely hen these weather. slides very early the cannot ventilating natural all open The outside You chicks the during know are the one the to even wood is comfortable. brooder still days of closed. if the zero. if these Watch be or kept be weather may even below degrees to cold according one-half, sunny on fresh or and chicks the to inlet with felts chicks This this the the of the tube time. upon covered sides the chamber the keep to holes the should they brooder open properly open in night air of point wide weather at half or highest all and curtain entrance air cold the at in Tuck the lamp or open principle warm ventilating has vents mild of supply brooder your slides In your the kept furnace the ceiling iron is that sure finger When felt opening Keep brooding your the night. at brooder. the little chance a and scatter feeding. of get three or of have small a and with tabs down let the Be chamber of depends run space be close apartment brooding of cold-air air and or two chicks two leave if clean corners them let chaff in or weight if I can chicks the chaff barely litter brooder start one to should the the with brooder mow to mow making in and in Raise tabs put of hay sand the F. 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From Dr. on with by the On The nice first the farm. Woods' brooder made grees dedoor outmarkably re- big strong legs. time of under the chicks when out until days ing durside possible. whenever hover warm chicks space expose sunlight the or a all food February, 1905, temperature 18 easily operated out of doors, although and below. frequently fell to zero had well growth, developed bodies and Woods.) should hover your of Dr. by or litter to keep a always of 21st temperature fine their often. chicks of bone, raw food food. the at charcoal, with granulated grain in willow pure and scrap the the sun above beef the for chicks and food little dry Scatter hours the chick sifted, pure fine CHICKS RAISE TO the you have brooder 86 HOW aim should at extra heat, under the get degrees hover, will do to the not the the 110 to It is always mind in degrees F. if they have sides of chicks with A all the chicks fatal to when hover, prove little opportunity an circular a may with temperature by the they is and a mon com- of surplus stand can than night they a beneath changing is the high as than great deal the not felt, height 100 degrees. enough. 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Usually the pin little a let chamber brooding felt curtain, run day third will the be and snow healthy has large HOW filled well legs, thin! shrunken Small, legs Let ahead. trouble apartment. In which be may enough first at always brooder five are range be when A good deal of their plumage. weeks six Don't The to teach naked of secret will and chicks you chilled little that, less to they chick as raising a than or dead or them in crowd to that same the this spot on bad some old. weather. started them easier are broods. weather outside acquire when weeks nine broods weather hot condition coops getting in is cold may fledged. the cold in free well are to heat chicks Chicks colony eight are the When and the to from rule, they chicks go are away huddle allow to your Clean shelter. if and practically have and the of patience do them Keep days. them old ready be chicks in find require If them lot size flock. few let weeks the until not rua smart month a weaned. are shade is eight will others chief little sunshine. day. a possible, to upon Some old, You permit find depends take right. six be teach once new a every run there where from for they the if old, land grass on weaned ground until clean weeks six to fresh on and the then however, ground fresh new brooder week must, exercise of will They You the use then later. to same every daily. size trouble brooder the can to and first, at freedom the care. vitality while them have better low little a birds need mean have themselves. for brooders the in they in and taught you little your they only for as days avoid your run chicks out to Change just increased look to well a signal, out them few watching bear danger a again back them drive are If size. its to will they legs wizened proportion in out 87 CHICKS RAISE TO Never brooder habit cold, in you the will stormy 88 HOW A husky first practical httle green early grass outdoor chicks of TO brooder, have springtime. been RAISE with let (Photo CHICKS chick out by Dr. shelter and run of shelter to Woods.) get the attached. The newly started CHAPTER Chick VIII. Foods and GOOD _SE Feeding FOOD if ||l|l There LISm chicks are vitality, the Corn have when food fresh mixed sound Foods. all to prefer each and mills last mill of not too almost the yellow whole wheat This barley grind together of amount meal food it from is be need not is wanted better easily to will into This fine be done make a sifted out when chick If out litter the that the grinding so or that by to food: measures 3 measures 2 measures 1 measure will be will will in use it will fitting a coffee a burrs chick trough are chicks plant, be 4 eat an not sieve $8 Such usually ground chicks feeding meal than the excellent when and $25. if can food the as as to poultry mill, and an mixture meal. for sift well home $5 run one common a from low to the at small coffee work made as a harder no and in cost had on hand used oats coffee. ground sizes be even are the white clipped, heavy can sults. re- good a ground ground corn and chick feeder do Sound, considerable If fresh freshly small have, formula hard, the of of good feed to ever food and can second will Sound, as in and A following Heavy, fed plenty yield prefer I have burrs, power to Sound, coarse plementary sup- abundance will is some and and that chick mills for lifetime worn, food steel size. same The Mix use chicks good grow variety I meal, oat commercial with food one home-made a handy a badly cheap. is size mighty are will for available, food, chick grinding larger a best having mill, Small needed. general chick The " others grinding iron insects of plenty grains. sweet Chick 1 and good grow some to wholesome, green For and used used succulent worms been and sweet will with johnny-cake, grits all that born live. to corn chicks. good grow rations dough, wheat, to are power meal foods chick of chicks the " cracked and number a if want you ^ Chicks are had about as contain or a hopper it readily. automatic be wasted. made of 90 HOW netting mosquito and placing sifted so at out bulk equal Corn grits, Steel-cut size much too have will and to a weeds that you sure mouldy value feeding has that Buy use only freshly on seeing Insist not are food any in prepared equal other products foods and food for from is before in take of not many foods that than not to a in old year. goods accept or with chances or bright. and spoiled, is whole mouldy or clean do to something months sweet, any cheap are article spoil six Cheap, quality. cause of chick musty and buying Don't to smells that food chicks. your that mercial com- chicks. loses grain liable more some crop sweet pure, Cracked is a it is and these best the even fresh-made, it the growing for chick sample to and starting of eaten chick warehouse sample kill may a if like trouble in in in millet much seeds result them Chicks too and of without bowel chicks grain. chick but the buying and ages harm a are most use. found used a every day millet usually in There food so-called found land chick indigestion, by weed the no causes relished but get do of musty a pounds but market, the for it may obtain stored been 20 foods. chick on can and taken or pounds grit food kinds it as Never grain. that be out foods of the over pounds 20 Vz pound If you not should 45 lowing: fol- 12 1^ pounds commercial better feeding all from page the pound about frequently for corn is pound Dangerous unfit home at 1 Some are mixed grade sifted chick are be can 1 injurious chicks. screenings free (See Chicks," size little very indigestion. make supply bone millet. prove Care an ground. the charcoal much a foods foul or excellent of only a raw words few a of the it with chick dry, sand Coarse Just loss mill Meal week's freshly '"Feeding cracked "C hulls poultry Granulated, likely more when the screen. mixing than wheat meal, barley, Chick millet of beneath inclined after under that fine cracked oat Cracked food sifted or sound Clean, you grind outlet another the food food chick the and chicks to not better a chick good contain makes made Another number Do from sieve down runs fed hopper bran. it incline the of it as CHICKS chapter.) this in be home for end itself wheat as the at sifts can of time one formula 94 food RAISE fairly sharp a box one The sieve. at TO aged dampoor food. Growing foods sort and of as Foods. the growing " Chick chicks food. grow food be must it should Generally by the supplemented gradually time chicks give are with way from other to some three HOW weeks to A growing good of food chick cracked Kafir is wheat Heavy white Use same your pounds 10 pounds 10 pounds 10 pounds for 50 pounds 18 pounds 16 pounds 16 pounds fed pounds 100 them ing grow- from of mixture ness. fine- before Add hopper. a the flour to ground the Keep dry mash any to is with skim Best yellow Low grade one- mixture ground green fed and it into Here water. is the wheat meat fish meal scrap chickens green of the quantity the 100 meal blood or running are food, omit the bowels low of pounds of Animal Foods. worms, bugs, the clover or the flour. ground The green a reduce grade " on animal grasshoppers and and pounds pounds 10 pounds 10 pounds 10 pounds have of in for of plenty there is and scrap any increase table salt to thoroughly. chicks growing insects other 10 20 pound mix best moist pounds If beef foods but 50 can meal. of one-half mixture grain best alfalfa amount Add or range weeks following crumbly a meal alfalfa or the formula: flour clover six are desired if dry by mixing had they food, meal corn quality Best looseness be may after and bran Best *If be cold or chicks corn It to are milk market cracked excellent. results quickest For " their to mash *First that they are get on range. Fresh form pounds 30 mixture grind miller grains. as salt Mash. Food Wheat open have sweet manner addition forcing the and table of place thoroughly. old, in raw mash dry excellent an oats sound only Forcing mash above together pound in 40 barley all corn. the following: Whole in take corn Heavy and the the Whole chicks amber) or screenings to ration whole for gradually to oats addition chicks mix (red wheat Hulled half used good any corn Clean Mix can on is substituted corn be well very corn wheat Whole do following: the is Sifted In which food will they if cracked fowl laying for suitable old month one 91 CHICKS RAISE TO flsh, well of animal food of being easily even when too scalded for boiled or chicks of digested. freely fed. It rarely Use feeding before all ages and it has causes only good is the an indigestion fresh excellent tage advan- great fish. or rhoea, diar- Spoiled 92 Plow fish chicks fed easily obtained Fish fish buy of but quality. desirable This up, mashes, to is scrap much fish and during at scrap fresh it is wholesome difficult contains and excellent obtain to other results; proportion of fish of it well test excellent an dependable a manufacture and is fish, large a in time a Plymouth herring with fish, all. by-product a 1911 make fresh White my chubs, of will well-scalded I fed perch, from It like plain. spring and Nothing losses. muscle or yellow bones if made scrap, addition of before supply fish bone. glue. Don't feed you much it. Meat, either sparingly to Beef meat foods IV. to Feed will get in all in the keep be sweet to from the cheese little cooled out, such clean. white eggs If the to feed Is a good drink it for small chicks. used, don't is milk to apt Salt made to pepper with good a the the one of and all stock. milk sour milk always time and sour The best way curd separates the it dry; squeeze I sometimes ages. the add cheese. curd thickened with and at it until little a chicks milk adult and diarrhoea. heat should ginger, boiled is bread excellent flour, for and small soned sea- chicks troubles. for fresh mixing, should at just for nutmeg diarrhceal of curd the milk sweet are the is excellent feed milk is to it and sweet and sweet Either sweet chicks Use poses pur- time a chicks, chicks both troublesome selves them- get cheaply. weaned them. start young had Where Feeding sour. for for alternate be ca^i should drinking at the scrap It to for frequently. Chapter the ages. amount "scours" less be lot. chicks milk small a in new all must you used not of prepared scrap a the Give milk it before eggs only when black Eggs give have permit milk. but beef on chicks not the mashes lightly The with moist remedy food similar life first with at small given Scalded to for will other if you slow go that founts, whey. so to and sour good a insect remarks first feeding another use See at excellent up always or milk is and for before like be to well is meal substitutes chicks fountains milk not cooked, or blood quality. to fountain Sour are as earthen mixing I do serve smeared scalded for meal, good a milk given raw meat It is always Sweet and chicks. sparingly before. be fresh scrap, careful a them CHICKS cause mash a of fish cheap cleaned they in quantities chickens may bone all, either and RAISE if fed develop and grow bones Rock and dangerous is TO be small egg will hard boiling chicks stirred help in boiled point for but up should with raw cases of before fully be not a diarrhoea. feeding ten fed little minutes. too scalded freely. milk, Infertile,tested to chicks. Keep HOW 94 for warmth food for cry of ready are brood coop of is the should be given sanded well will dusty and food article small a with and or food. See happy; that is drinking pure this the a Alfalfa average little this They purpose best. the a in daily scrap fortably com- require charcoal. like Feed kept They of for hay needs one be air. and don't I chicks. beef of amount in their how and meal, clover but small it to of to fresh exercise, cut dusty, for need supply bone to each place and learn to constant a with too not commercial They supplied bone covered is it and chicks. opportunity an floor if serve food granulated grit, dry water, well wholesome of variety and clean contented rearing, chick give chicks piles out chicks VII. Chapter the to you to hours the well brooder small the near comfortable, chicks understand and warm, a in successful of secret study to week the keep floor on first is before of begin thirty-six It bill attention Attract will insistent coop. its dipping by they to becomes cry" brood or finger for care to Try brooder water Usually twenty-four "hungry brooder. or tapping by detail of from are the to go drink a they When to chick food when shell. the CHICKS hatching. after hours some RAISE TO litter very the of to chick age encour- exercise. fresh equal coarse parts by meal and rubbed the at litter food free be the results. chick some size the supplement Feed scrap in and feed from bran wheat very For oats. crumbs, to millet. from with mix fed be may a is cracker add and coarser food to excellent or gives hot, the a hopper. The dry occasional may be meal and fed supplementary granulated not care soft thoroughly or or to over times or the the of food. this a water lightly in up cold week food until is and Sprinkle too just the until cooked This greatly relished little a Cook bone raw chicks meal feeding. before are well or with seasoned much. evaporated. is by wheat The rice. grains cooked supplemented cracked water or warm be should boiled mash most variety three wheat well slightly bone raw two cooked thoroughly be salt, taking grain of ration food chick grain feedings should rice one little a afterwards and first it should preferably ration, but this egg, chick Commercial grits. corn bread food chick rolled of some during or ground wheat, part one loses grain this one coffee iron any place for and little oven-dried a grind week first formula barley in ground damp a and chicks, baby ground or in The added is hard-boiled with up After with alternated first week Cracked corn, which to be can if kept and quickly. measure starting for results, needed. as spoils weather, humid food good overlong, if kept value box given made and mill in always has that chick home-made good A as a or Feed started. HOW Hard infertile boiled simply cutting the chicks to the for Be just pick vegetable eat eagerly clean but in up scalded given halves and all. 95 supplementary as leaving One it in is egg food, the brooder sufficient fresh, for carefully should be have fed been small 25 frozen, provide first, as In grass and rye, be may the range of to there fresh, culent, suc- should Onions feed that any diarrhoea cause supply is will given chicks. never to way which be Lettuce the liable are they may available. cabbage ideal on any they will than form of potatoes raw they upsets feeding vegetables time summer good a frozen as In older form These daily more it sometimes sparingly. very chicks. that no best of mangels. or grow cut green food green at they The daily supply given As food. green a beets, be hours. clover, is apples, should they feeding chicks raw few a cut fed food green plenty white of in is and clover. the By time grits; corn or food and chick beef raw be In best increase proportion the to old for of any the the new a for agreeable to change change the old of little each day until to keep take should in amount a change begin the considerable reduce gradually the wheat corn, usually but fowls, ing grow- from is excellent an can corn small- the away table begin and fine-cracked prove laying making them home they old cracked substitute work will days ten sifted screenings, largely the weeks ration it is usually of from to fine gradually or potatoes three regular wheat Gradually cereal abruptly. food, quality ration a cooked When the made to on week one chick wheat; chapter. Waste ones. of part not food and food, best amber this scrap. variety from in the of clean, or from are portion a red given expensive chicks some hard grained, the for substituting is be and in winter wholesome a shell careful for chunks, large in red in egg at CHICKS also may boiled little a food cut to eggs RAISE chicks. small be TO ration a food the and change effected. Keep the quarters busy always lousy. day two or for good placed tapping The has a Some generally, coop floor chicks brooder, or of brooder it with failing to teach to eat and influence if they drink on contract a whatever bad first allow drink where day mentality the point a to each the chick, neglect warm Example and and places is when dipping possesses, in first food the up come be- what to crowding to eat by chick chicks chicks water to two. the attracted Don't or of of be can and habits it and give growers little the make drink finger. it how the to chicks your try them, learn successful very and Don't brood you the near clean appetites. how attention by great keen that see brood education how matter to the and with No them. in its bill. and reasonably by chick's what habit and where HOW 96 they chilled become can it is, if born, well were foreign matter eating of or chicks the CHICKS RAISE TO result the to a normal petite, ap- neglecting of early lessons. An early poultry plant. the roadway for the the coop Woods.) summer leading small at chicks. one in scene Here end chicks the and the through Tlie and brood to the a Island Ehode brood field hens hen's hens to are the barn, tethered leg at field hay have giving by the on houses tiny a other. a practical placed an string along ideal range fastened (Photo by to Dr. CHAPTER IX Chicks Growing EN CHICKS REARED is ready she ready to when the to the of season guide your the during of part they chicks' life. and brood Sometimes the for nights it will box to or it that so hover good made as comfortably they to If bodies. easy. until Chilling care and that of have been become they and any in at it does heated weaning errors well fed not " feathered, the coolest quarters in It brood too order to days them in cold brood they or tabs felt well Or smaller than middle, makes be can cloth weaning. the can make their the keep soon and where felt little a placed recover given a the a cleats on cause from they doing to " a failure check it and in a to serious keep the source is "hardened" stunt of own heat. chicks so they their setback. or a should, weaning artificial growth becomes by gradually without that until heat brooders, be must less be to chicks chicks supplied tireless mean may and that need Usually Brooder less except in chicks out. gradually. be reared management may feathered brooders time Little process. heat accustomed in on to down coops. well time, without chicks in cool weather frame, weaned are weaning If reared cold hang brood until hens go and with high for gradual a warm approach ready are in use be under and times sleeping flannel, hover, wooden a slack chicks legs. should brooded are to short with Weaning kept be will frame to the the well her for in inches useful prove tacked sack bran burlap six about hover a board A leave year, wrapped water, up. warm legs on litter, will the above or it to built beneath, hot of jug a old, and other of seek for be weeks all are to comfortable provide to necessary place around cuddle bag be chicks If they will the of season little the as will chicks at until wean. hen a eight the comfort time brooder or to the hen chicks to of disposed coop ready are Let weaning developed, well six development year. the Brooder from at with run them. wean wean according be to should Faulty ble comfortathe loss chick instead profit. Chicks should be kept all growing 97 the time; there should be n(" 98 HOW still standing V/ith all. at you If the weather rapid brooders from small in be too to soon brood for ruin can you a does be larger been but in or little by keeping to keep to coops a be hurry a practically use to appear grow continuous and it grow." It is easier in not should "see not have flock chick almost boxes. houses, CHICKS development to than broods colony the cool, do boxes promising many which able is or brood RAISE chick healthy a should " in periods TO the move them comfortable colony houses. ruined by judgment it confined A good moving in them this in long too chicks matter, small crowded over- quarters. When the chicks is sufficiently mild, houses. growing open-front will be chaff floors floor no cut or in drafts. soft Weights of in young growth and season did four of of should in rapid maximum the in 2y2 and Coops well-grassed, a chicks. grass, clover They or add birds a and in at 22 of Range. which made old. well-shaded range need of newly sprouted the coops make fresh the and month until will the an admit of old. months get much can attain can shell. tration Illus- chicks tended in- weights author, an homes of made with ten in best air, plenty grain, be can remarkable by growtli old, and and located a it Wyandotte (Photo be old you from to the months each market weeks White of Colony ration for 28 weeks " plenty to flock a ten forcing first it It to as old increase seven it weeks months an from intended from shows few Such at a two weight pound a feeding At weeks. a the said that three to ties varie- much be may is it is four variety. chicks three at maturity and each weight. time about the with breeders, the chick rapid during After pendable de- a Some as weight start. the it did as healthy chapter time by for weights 3 pounds Colony ten-day-old can growth this its the out conditions twice first there at for in on according vary favorable weigh gain no that the again you heavy for on weight normal, confining more is By much is full grown a there to sand normal kept. are Under ought dry with clean. for will chicks others. old life, so as a Flocks the still preparing twice varieties bird days chick's doubled weigh reaching By the as which than Usually constant. double the under ten serve all varieties. there littered figured yet standard or that Use reasonably has one shaped semi-open floors, well weather. weather "A" or the constructed so houses No " if the coops of be cold such will quickly when have "*iould heavy in standing be should to chicks hatched. days period that more chick when table colony wooden for Chicks. feathered, Houses with Keep conditions develop normal small should best are Growing weight they Houses straw, weather. warm into well illustrations.) best, and are and grown them move (See type well are 1903.) orchard for sunshine, abundance of of or ing growgreen good HOW food wholesome of tresh. good growth. plied daily with other or IS a grass, are be to made of Cloth will make trees like spruces weather. and shelters old Board to afford and with h^h be for to used and A b^ Ixce;7$5""* tall even held of it is after close t use is often needed Probably the partly open-front f close '? scrl.n screens to feet from the high, makes chick more small ' in results even at in Low cotton Evergreen serve. pine boughs 3 ft can deen ft q eu^a ins U,' cotton c^os^n^t built'at a growing hot fine a corn sun.' summer summer night ^^'^'""^ ^ in '^^^ stormy Shutting losses. than house colony health and provided heavy 6 ft. long, coop front coops life are tight front. a best box to essential are with one stifling coops breathe few a colony don shelter grateful If shade heavy Tall shelters. fataT is ^ range chicks. ^^^^ters ^;;^'^-f^^' Most Of the ^th. fronts; chick making give weeds, corn growing c in advantage health provided bv wide raw- growing to cheap will Cheap colony house, for growing chicks,6 ft. 2 ft. high in bick; and m front provided " -'*"'"^ "^^*'^""- ^""'^ -^P to chick run be or shade, for excellent must lean-tos sun- sprouts, cabbage, cloth, fine afford pines and some and be should successful sort awning canvas, shelters. good in shrubbery of they runs shelter suitable no life, health to Sufficient sunshine factor important had, burlap, tents vegetables. bushes trees, berry not and with sun bare on large quantities require clover, oat in hot very hot much Orchard these grown cut greens and necessary too are of is important Shade but they plenty chicks It is essential food. green Where 99 CHICKS Growing variety. succulent raw, potatoes in RAISE TO 3 ft. during for deep, """^' ^'^"^ weather. Fresh, pure 3 ft. high f^^^t ^^d houses open in up the good partly chicks growing Such to and with snug air to day chicks in is front cloth cotton can the and be had 100 at HOW prices various do that The wooden not Woods it White Colony to growing in built house built Woods skids for poultrymen is described for breeding at ten American supplied stock. 6 ft. wide as house by England and growing for grown New a quantity on small as but each, box at house. each house, published by in stock. weeks For 10 and "Open-Air Tliese Journal Poultry a small a ft. deep book old. with birds (Photo by tained at- Dr. Publishing 111. floor, stock. with be can "A" shaped built cheaply Illustrations chicks quarters. sleeping $14 houses $5 for chicks CHICKS 21^ to 3 pounds each houses In housing front The from Houses," Co., Chicago, close be Wyandotte weights Woods.) Poultry as good a can peak. at high open-front house ft. high RAISE such exceed floor, makes portable 6 as is manufacturing factory prices to up TO quarters Small and give show flocks, don't and two plenty them as shut a built roofs, these of them up starting quarters for houses. provide Always room. rule, do roof excellent make of with best. closely Don't at crowd night. opentheir Protect 102 HOW Always throw to be soon a to erect head range, and the pests, runs, and running or wire hang bits make tall sure to fasten cats are get poles and the trap troublesome cat proof. thief known and Often a cat the steal to more and a good plan kill will chicks pampered adult the You can of steel with pole any same trap trap on wire. wire with is an pet tabby fowls. ing shoot- about small and hawk but work at a the chicks bright jingle in will good them. at the the over rags, they raids placing to extend, all growing chicks, for very that shot a these colored that makes protect will such Woods.) so their a it is suitable remedy no usually erecting I have is sure it gives zig-zag of Dr. latter This usually Be made the sun. If you are want From runs. cord there they can chicken hang and hawks, some stout by chicken and glass; you them shaped colony house stock. (Photo by grown as cats, or glitter in the day, pole. Where pounds, cord Sometimes hawks of full and each some the looking scare. time top or breeze the wires and they trouble. and the is best. farm makes rats that crows Burning part of the full of about type of ''A" and "^rowu crow hands poles from them. dogs, meat against heighth. Anotlier tin, glass skunks, your slender burn or chicken of CHICKS out-of-the-way crows, have RAISE chicks some protection above half by taste will you For in out eaten prowlers dead bury them TO size Shoot up to the closed en- corrigible intwo thief TO RAISE if you live HOW is if there if any trap, easy and or near quiet dwelling houses it you way rid get to take to that cats fine heavy a thieves the in yard, is a an fowls upon prey and business, poultry the chances any pay Trapping sized good a is risky in placed of on don't liable are shooting. and catnip with baited country the plant, the of complains in city lot against ordinance an person box town a Shooting firearms. using act have If you place. the in caught when 103 CHICKS and chickens. Foxes good more or one night at placed dogs valuable Skunks about lantern chicken chicken the will poison and do except while leave Rations. in Changes made change is fed. food variations daily ing morn- with the place in Go reduce the take to the Do rations. rations abruptly. gradually food growing ready-mixed standard any regular to apply in add rations in food chick a chick no placed the about a dead with careful Be eggs or with in gathered skunks. changes make and fed until day little each it, a food chick of amount as flesh strychnine with food them baited traps dosed killing off feeding When it gradually. about Don't " strychnine is risky, poisoned hunting carefully and the only confined. is safely all stock but go Steel poisoned any with them in fences, the animals. you eggs of method easy not few night at runs an prove A dosed Take domestic if high about are get may evening. the in effective. also are outside o'clock 10 chicken a shoot usually can you foxes killed. be poisoning avoid to the foxes of runs it and eat may of carcass the near day the during The localities, and some shooting and dogs remedies. effective in troublesome very are of place same with any Rule does not the feeding stock birds to or the of plementary sup- foods. Stock Birds the give used and to have of plenty healthy normal, It is usually are three or food other breeders little you Or adult are If range. is intended conditions the ers lay- first laying and confinement ought stock breeding favorable be to are the more for as and pullets them in stand will Chicks and in possible as to growth. best to they old, gradually keep can half ration grown so to practically chicks when stock, you ready get that house them and you them. chick from them wean weeks laying than more regular time or old. months results there all they up. range four until for marketed, growing when pushing liberal only, pushed then best For " chicks growing layers as season Layers. and on then have For food changing the same from are a growing by ration work to them time to breeders on to and to adult the ration them they food weeks food accustomed growing as ten begin the chick from three until to it by a the the layers I 104 HOW like combination a whole grain mash. Green should ration mixture, of a should supply be RAISE of supplied be dry with occasional fed mineral with CHICKS good combined food abundant an TO mash, freely. food good a feedings They charcoal of should (grit, shell, dry granulated cracked moist also have bone, and and a etc.) and plenty of good water. Market Chicks. materially fed from rapid growth beef scrap for part of age, the the cracked will until keep them A get and corn beef Alfalfa "Mixed you are to from make use through ranges. growing good on place of in the roosts the winter, Make the these plenty deal of them. of ones if unnecessary green into of the "going whole and corn corn. before the that food trouble measures 1 measure 1 measure J measure and a they middlings. other and meal coarse chicks develop ingredients in winter will of the fall to yards the prove the are them that way gradual one, if and have the green and raw is started and until be to ble possiopenSee roosts. confined vide Pro- possible. in to direct when vegetables each Use plenty stuff bring houses, least flocks. If birds necessary, When measure 2 sufficiently low start a 1 the As comes comfort night. change yards. other to one don't keting mar- scrap. time Provide at all cracked bran reduce beef range and of litter,sand chicks wheat grains. the change crowd of parts and habits work following: gradually summer the yards, temporary A feed with some without up market pushing these When " the with Don't birds low, supply in barley ground of cornmeal Birds. birds houses. stuff and age mainly Stock interference the equal oats marketable prepared from them is the clean to enough it to for by-products feeding stock is about is corn, Housing house will they give get largely with them scrap the approach the large exclusively feed" and the are green to them the away and meal food" with that take food and weeks two food Best front that mixture within range dry; let cornmeal Stock be scrap mash them and differ fed fed scrap feed Coarse In the beef scrap Mixed mixed of readily, give dry and supply can freely confined, more the If birds it more good "Stock out food not want be trough-fed beef coarse less You chicks (yellow) have you foods. Such green should with grown fattening and Give food feed." eat hoppers litter. then corn and chicks be can cornmeal their floors, cut off their in market meat. coarse bran grits in corn forcing or of They soft, tender corn and feeding chicks. on and cracked on other heavily more Early " of green yards runs daily. fall by making HOW an of a food, green and a Eock Plymouth to market grown in demand 28 the make the weeks best old, ration. birds will few and get (Photo and by quarters changes it with the in such least comfort dis- possible. as bring to abundance an crowded necessary accustomed and vigorous Dr. yards, all capons from with range, bare Make Brahma chickens markets liberal on changes 105 CHICKS small houses, in as RAISE coops open closed change that and 22 to complete manner quick from change abrupt TO 40 Woods.) to dressed stock. 50 cents Specimens capons. The per kind pound that are dressed of in at CHAPTER Facts X. About HICK White MORTALITY in alarming most the years of ages of losses three of of sixty from After remedies thoroughly and sure mortality of in ten small be lost relied are already extravagant chicks. as a real extravagant apparently so-called far too is no The "cure-all." claims absolute, of cures thing remedy the in legitimate are made cleverly-written guaranty 107 is to of a chapter, disease, repair the No prescribed which five loss this applied. and death exceed the in care the not provided poultry and book given the If due prevent remedy advertised much is of employed, without to safe, breeding management this year been prove the need diarrhoea, the for have are in which many minimum. reared cases white made such of when gone are for majority upon found been cure commonly to managing the the found are incubation, to of have the subject have remedies equipment reduced formula the cure claims There broods in during season all of the I that relied of directions any remedy, upon and vitality not Many The the at deal of and prevent These be brooding be can following cent. and rhoea." diar- become, stations great a chicks methods and chicks chickens chick. single can small per chicks small can my before eggs of in and "white study a broods chickens of loss a many experiments, to diarrhoea." tested Where the care exercised rate "white name effective. Incubators, of in visited me cure. upon disorders and tried handling stock, to the to and depended to experiment men and cause have termed loss giving are best investigation be this that country their the learn infantile under classed of can the of the time study, which cases is to careful over they has yearly, proprietors I cent the amounted Some acknowledged per f-fteen past have which plants reached between weeks annually. which general the chickens ninety disease a increasing endeavor to During two have period So an chicks has years small and poultry this from of days practical during recent proportions. millions to in Diarrhoea for backed in your medicine remedy "cure absurdly for practical is chicks every which by an case 108 or HOW back" money your seldom safe might find wished to You latter in in poultrymen too low in much lower at pharmacy the market, In of many the White should chickens. may The with this termed, die glairy is off itself of I The keep it tion. tritura- following am followed with "white used lime-like a "paste and chicks. been aptly behind," up evidence no small condition young it has as in excrement This of rhoea" diar- describe to rate symptom. warning made been name diseases frequently apparent no or remedy it and death high a duplicated the machine have the whitewash," chicks the present little of large manufacturing commonly a only variety "voiding of in the poultrymen. discharge or considerable a not result is of mucus by to possible. as book I that r'3nerally and so this of in had thorough in that one used unfortunate is diarrhoea symptom with and which actual in occur Where been ailments public formulae It " have all practically mixed intended valuable Diarrhoea. the to given diseases they produce to for for number a remedy widely afford is diarrhoeal homoeopathic any curing diarrhoea and price any claim testimonial that the as that hundreds proposition and out calls preparation remedy the most deliver by the results commercial I could which the ordered at white for a of the tried than cost originally course and it prepared the as giving a it well have can As prepare have if you in the Canada, was treatment all do used States, with pleased so and received poultrymen times. to to poultryman the were in years to do honestly formula sold report Many You back can cannot four over United remedy the else was the dangerous. to remedy phosphates, Every several order of parts of and orders cost For chapter, chickens. quantities on all use young their this bug, hum- cheap a money your remedy used anyone tissue countries. successful of of get this upon or preparation. part foreign I as positively to properly that down set guaranty. depend and combined safely sometimes validity of the than of be expensive and prescribed medicinal and use absolutely more remedy of the test carefully any to CHICKS RAISE often can difficult it can disease, TO or bowel of trouble. All white Leo fatal diarrhoeas diarrhoea, F. specific of organism germ of agree other white been poultrymen he most closely than a he organisms but laboratory specific has found which Dr. and thorough with not are bacterium names diarrhoea, the more is believes which isolated chicks young apparently Yale, have apparently among which Rettger, microscopic of the the specific pullorum. they believe and general reported by other Dr. a germ, Other to be experiments painstaking of bacillary which for Rettger's facts results necessarily disease his servers obthe have clusions con- experience scientists 110 entire the absence weaklings the the backbone As the and had chick to it eject contact the and usually vent and margin It The the hot pitiful chirp passing and cry and legs feeling cold thin very The little birds away and waste On opening . found putrid or yolk In atrophied. often the grit. The or will the chicks caecae and after death all the be guts warning a or no solidified. size food and duct the in packed frequently if it will of from and the full be In at a hovers. usually in were and greenish solidified or found will mixed partly gradually or remnant as but tissues. the yolk body fill out flat under it looks Sometimes is little will blind of a when chick's is wasting the utter pain of the not considerable plugged there or of color. found gizzard be cries A.3 warm they do Frequently it may keep to little birds trampled having huddle. to fever, without suddenly watery, very be The dead condition, blackish shrill mucus. diarrhoea." inclined no a assumes Frequently is quently, Fre- glairy, sticky impossible make there There unabsorbed. cases and the lower appearance. "white name brooder. touch. die found Usually crop the emaciated. are other be may grayish intestines and the of the bowels the with the commonly beyond inflamed force margin upper in come and condition the from impossible abdomen the in it almost cases the either semi-putrid color. the be to to the mixed sometimes most cannot extent droopy find have you In droppings. remain be or sleepy, they progresses how matter it chick and in ble considera- so having time discharge resulted dopy, are red a character that symptom chicks disease no on the is without on is this vent. almost considerable takes always, bird At a whitewash-like or down piece the exaggerated more the line tail seems cases many or little the to sometimes this was up not fluff behind." protrudes but lime-like until on "pasted as abdomen In of out just above deformity it almost abdomen well become the healthy a if the as in the excrement down. the beyond dries known conditions protruding soil the looks and Sometimes voids behind out chick forward these chick the over droppings excretion older the with pushed in big-bellied, the it bunches chicks chicks to common for suddenly hovers weakling not the The off the to chicks die under always that its legs. on when result been grows almost that so the it is wabbly that rear with vent, morning. certain then These peculiarities is the dead found appeal incubator. and days would as knows from several in the weakling the to taken are being certain The specimen. and usually such except instinctively for first thing possess protruding well CHICKS RAISE who they do warning, brooders of symptoms moment apparently always visible poultryman the without TO of veteran may HOW a ish yellow- still others dark yolk other ish, green- sack to times intestines, though of millet, sand found to contain or a HOW considerable be intestines In be to all almost into empty found which is in red and the inflammation The whitish, cheesy soft or to this at say is actually be may and time a tuberculous many specific germ. old diseased has violent flammation in- apparently no There This germ and of cases any not in chicks the ent pres- reality of that in believe with sick a bilitated de- or from come may pared pre- rhoea" diar- the of or eggs while infection of excrement the on that at are to reason result from be smeared so good know "white evidence diarrhoea direct the may no not I am as undoubtedly direct white is is known cases is so tubercles are some there do of have deposits we deposits, disease any In These sue tis- deposits or date the muscle the nodules to in them of that but disease under investigated no believe. concerning is the by That other other quite is the for reason accompanied by given this White "Bacillary name That minute ingly exceed- an of sometimes but bacilli some writing the of is the seems little bird only is greater a ovary. Symptoms Le of lack a the use substance. tubercle that that fowls that diseased there small of tubercles, as character. instances full tuberculosis. indicate and chalk-like tubercular, are to be to found remains possibility intestines described has who others or present. liver, heart, been in diarrhoea" this evidence show cases while intestines, found anyone the few by made has may material ansomia of apparent consumed body be kidneys. evidence is which this "white the the will vent, and lime-like or name through It been its Some frequently frequently of has that whatever lungs, are that the gives shows chick the portion. of and mal-nutrition. and wasted small of near cheesy shown kidneys the the chalky cases bran. substance, The excreted part of food of the been droppings body blood, portion the from lime-like tissue. kidney have wheat bowel some yellowish examined ducts or In or coarse the of white of the greater whole The has in appears evidently of into with ureters, portion full packed extend even the cases fluid. grayish a I have clogged or lower the be to packed with that specimens Some accumulation. blackish or filled entirely almost 111 CHICKS RAISE brownish of amount will they TO Dr. Diarrhoea." Rettger the general That doubt. there white symptom investigators germs probable. micro-organispag the to "so-called and The which be diarrhoea be may other may or other there of may not chick their forms the which of rhoea." diar- form there diseases is every in right contagious discussion rhoea diar- white epidemic and may white specific disease name contagious common Bacillary " to reason conclusions white identity of cause a rhoea diarvarious disease 112 for always, some When all and victims as vast and bacillary us, the of old saying, "Who word spoken, microscopic regardless of precise they are born cause and of only the become shall diarrhoea, killed and have or lost not was all off long us Prof. by susceptible If this post-morten observed as disease disease tion, identifica- peculiarly to vulnerable. have symptoms their attack predisposed so would germs follow white CHICKS us last rule that army the about some Herewith RAISE disagree?" general a victims " the reminds said is vitality through true reason, everywhere are germs TO doctors when decide HOW this. ere of appearances Stoneburn and Dr. Rettger: "As in that chick all be without lack and vent creamy, sticky less the vent the vent. or behind." "The This and to to droop acute chirp of excreta, the The breathing on may utter one may "During the progress still gradually note away, less or the seal to up "pasting as dicative in- body, them. being shrill a the becoming disease the indifferent to the and chick is to a or or to the void the pain. breath. gaping. die may prolonged weaker peep of cry each with of gasping disease weaker In endeavoring heaving amount begin ruflled. according twitter, apparently certain wings chicks the seem they attempt The weak, or when abdomen the When when become of Many shrill Frequently, a chicks They feathers with huddle to time. the of mechanical. the about of fairly strong. waste below necessarily not Frequently and labored, Occasionally while much. closed sound be much from individual. chicks hover is more are the and eat slightly goes the or more a down quantity is white has streak of mode color matter sleepy, inclined listless the not action constantly, strength do eyes that everything under project the cases in from depending, the designate poultrymen after discharge time and simply condition, however, become and their or time ness perhaps, weak- the voided sufficient in what is all of them short very profuse, It may every size. flock, or in almost organism The down the to soon remain food slight stood under- diarrhoea. appetite take be brown. observed whitish the tain cer- be to excepting, the of may latter white in with condition chicks together lose cling may a within vary wish but characteristic character. glairy or This of to mixed be symptoms, virulence discharge sometimes will within its appearance the not considerable any prominent upon The may may do diarrhoea; occur vitality. The of doubt, infection. epidemics of makes soon without white any We symptoms bacillary deaths earliest hatching, up in symptoms affected. following from apparent "The or the of the diseases, individuals the suffering will the other many in limits suddenly the until chicks they are HOW be often The with of one describes the to rear had diarrhcea this set in, and fall an will standing poultrymen the look to This abdomen to 'stilty' as condition pared com- Woods curately ac- to seem be disorders to prey be The of and be white After age. if complications chicks would the bone back- bacillary which weakened greatly which with vent.' month expected, observed. of the one ing protrud- line tail-piece and typical under may may from abdomen out if the as just above in are be well behind, deaths chicks diarrhcEa easy chick looks and the deaths mortality white bacillary chick the the while high and big-bellied, the out forward straggling few a that exceptions, occur a always it bunches pushed few the they support, which shorten development. is almost result been "With for stage utterly helpless. appearance to seems this objects the causing In lying or on 113 follows: that so the vent, with take normal as weakling 'The foreign back proportion, of out protrude weight. squatting, chicks the 'short-backed.' CHICKS own against rest apart, braced "Frequently call their support to seen legs with to able scarcely RAISE TO have had in constitution, resisted by normal chicks. "Those which survive Frequently and heads,' one with and the indefinitely, or make they being placed tacked and in the breast position, internal bone. "LUNGS "LIVER usually are areas the cases streaks in large the in which with liver portion of their and they condition opment. devel'crow impress persist may and vitality the breast with removal and not patches Occasionally or stomach less in lying food. congested will throughout. contact entire found: The epidemics congested legs observed.) red. of or bird removed are fluid slimy the and the of conditions (Tubercles and here, wings abdomen and by following size. is more followed outstretched view filled normal. with the to the cases partially or Pale, " in beaks way vigor been the covering exposed Apparently " board, a skin typical Empty " every regain has autopsy on organs In "CROP of the long This in vitality. may its back on In slowly stunted with development. method usual less or feathering. lacking bird fairly satisfactory "The more misshapen, are imperfect weak being as remain with the be met In such liver is inflamed. "KIDNEYS and "INTESTINES" amount "CECA material. of Pale, dark " With Only "UNABSORBED SPLEEN" grayish few Apparently and or for brownish exceptions, occasionally YOLK" the normal. greater matter but cheesy Usually or empty. filled with partly firm part frequently A small present. a grayish soft contents. present, varying In size from a 114 pea HOW to full sized a appear Unless the "The chick, emaciated. as muscles The Infection. place diarrhoea" period. housed when plant to introduced the to placed the incubator-hatched with chicks in well. This, is I believe, and contract the early very to 72 hours the the life old, also the four days old did not of diarrhoea same time hen-hatched and the the diseased thrived if disease, chick, tagious, con- least at only it attacks that ers brood- in and lived the variably in- in having that they they placed and trouble from as w^hite in hens were taken hatched to in the were birds conditions incubators statement in two healthy under the of soon as flocks same the of which If or disease Marked, fumigated supports it is 48 the birds out little hatched eggs the incubators, chicks the brooder a ill effects. time. the under from tion observa- all, between These infected run the completion just before very to in machines in tagion con- a of and or at hatching at when chicks not contracted before sometime did placed Healthy from in the chicks. these flocks. placed and at under remainder ran it meaning) contracted trouble were the if allowed not if it does developed hens diarrhoea flock the almost diseases, broad been flocks nests in Chicks, chicks white and be individuals this shell diarrhoea brooder the as just their inconvenience and eggs machines under to were hens' same disease. manner anaemic germ have chicks well disease. the I had the chicks white placed machines, and in the contract putrid, observation, in and place, pips placed and susceptible no takes from and developed machines when is not firm. specific micro-organism frequently the suffered first or contracted in from incubators dry nearly were yolk several words disease infected incubator another quently Fre- and legs may one experience both diarrhoea Marked contain of where the and chick off period. believed white of contagion the and diarrhoea poultry pens Apparently drying dry less breast symptom have white Chicks diarrhoea time variation, watery. less the or only occurs spreading therein. white much or or more to my take with flocks without a chicks Healthy one several house is (please affected On wings, is due In all, it only at those disease. also more time some appears disease infectious. infection or early for the of If this " course, takes is brownish to away." if "white or it is again dead whole, a wasted completely is, of there yellow distinctly gelatinous, and been from vary may stale. merely with has CHICKS consistency In custard like chick color normal, perfectly it looks but The yolk. black. nearly or green it may RAISE TO ceptible sus- individuals. By from careful white it experiment diarrhoea in a was given found incubator, possible the to hatch preceding a lot flock of free chicks this proving doubtful of eggs from the disease "The mother organism being to found be by the in present of yolks from eggs and with the prevent rence occur- diarrhoea, white Dr. a the of proportion such from the Consequently ovary. is organism produced eggs the have eggs specific the infection, of source certain chicks and hens, operator, with say: original the is hen the in infected chicks of the diarrhoea, to bacillary with infection of Stoneburn Prof. and Rettger lots of even white of breeders Following altogether. subject the On forms healthy obtain desire the possible, it is some selected disease. will at at not or that control to sources, selected disease conclusively almost practically again to the from losses heavy the develop would that possible it was up suffered had which from 115 CHICKS RAISE TO HOW disease when hatched. "In early an after place they after "Eggs "As a that those infected rule, infected in perpetuated "In all in "It is recognize of the are with the elimination eggs from white from this less harbor the the than stunted appear velopment. de- complete infection breeding and be may pens is adult from pass such Apparently summer, the fall, winter or early that the diarrhoea, the to adult. their in lay hens breeding natural spring are ond sec- larly regu- season. tively compara- through both of diseased vent is not poultryman chicks. in itself external The proof mere that learn to symptoms discharge the chicks specific disorder. should hens the they yolks. growth layers, especially poor importance appearances material "Infected Such late greatest bacillary affected take disease. this post-mortem whitish the not seasons. and spring in from free apparently laying subsequent hatched often does infection are the the at days four or in or more in place manner. hens only Chicks of this some Infection three time undergo takes satisfactory less For with organism the survive which probability "Infected and normal. carriers. bacillus become may days old. make chicks chicks chick contain eventually may female "The or hens apparently but four contaminated cannot, apparently, to chick from three are from are weak, and and Infection hatching. first fected in- be chicks supply food the within probability all in age, water or the through Infection droppings. infected food through disease the contract may could Normal food. infected through chicks that demonstrated was pullorum bacterium with it tests numerous made be eliminated possible by different pens are from pedigree hatched the records breeding of separately, chicks. and pens. If the HOW 116 This hens. "In breeders which breeding purposes, in single a equipment in change similar bird the these inspect to is marked "Great chicks "As to the to should small small made less chance of the "From brooder, the prevent first few it is advisable The purposes. eight to vigor and to ten "Food prevent young which free are Naturally, begin should picking select selection of an may early be they the group removed are will This dark. or largely droppings. the vigor intended only show which those for chickens the when growth, fair make and the for development those age made reserving age, kept regain later at be until unsatisfactory make may at hatch into baskets, the smaller the to individuals division For trays, wire pedigree of hatching after infected hatch. in chicks keeping hours few a hatching after days that chick from breeding from are greatest development. "Incubators, and use infection. chicks weeks of dition con- stock, infection four entire the from and weeks, first of chicks incubator infected "Since abnormal the of spread probable the netting. the time chicks the the spreading the ticable prac- side the in flocks forty-eight for through mosquito of bags the chances the suggest we groups breeding of breeding from during incubator infection the spreading secured be It is entirely reduce materially any entirely is It Where that exercised chicks of the in groups will to means effective. prove nated elimi- without detected. preventing of segregation chick, been has infection. diarrhoeal white from for non-infected a opening an caponizing. easily be hatching for through in be should eggs or made it may care the and ovaries. the of organs that to determine infection determining of means examination direct the is hens lowed. fol- methods. or possible "Another infected, discarded from plan, not procedure be disease this following by season the where farms of infected has are to should secured hatching for eggs records have We farm. and practicable flock entire the infected, are hens general same it is not and exists infection case and used, be should nest trap apparent infection individual the made contain pens where cases which determine To general. become the prove may in effectual be soon which chicks, the of condition the through it will days, first few the for segregated chicks CHICKS RAISE TO rearing and brooders of the water contamination and chicks should with should be be supplied infected used appliances all other cleaned in droppings. ing hatch- the disinfected and such in a manner The use quently. fre- as of to fine 118 HOW would females, adult adult. that assume and their will adult or multiplying from shells? the through "Poisoned" or chickens and young from with such breeding stock spring Make with sound taking the chicks males condition, are or quarters, Please from have or read are your foundation of diarrhoea breeding VITALITY you treatment summer but with the late that parently ap- natural breeding select to ers, lay- poor the or fall, winter slogan your by doing for and manage them disease. (so-called) prevention. of I Bear is prevention of ounce fowls keep to from diarrhcea methods "An for healthy best your all in always and having immunity white of saying, pings drop- fowls, and seasons, feed, house important more cessfully suc- stock. by hope by invariably are It is only and be cannot germs. difficult grow, time. egg disease of diseased choosing and is food the on "poisoned" laying by the what association the and of but source or It is infected smears fact, that hens be not fowl. disseminating and from safe not contaminated in common of spring can tract a is symptoms tract only carrier in from pass adult to uninfected, only whose health, It any is tainted not infected vigor wise and Management the condition result or fowls that out breeding of breeding stock or have diseased, I to IV the the that worth fat, old birds overforced on cannot full egg crowded, from any too of or grown of out are production, unsanitary other selection, feeding, be sure Losses that for in kept condition You (not Be " stock. breeding are Stock. Breeding immature from been inclusive stock. right. of of breeding from females, been Chapter management the cure." Care may it is for the the up consider developed) that all and of Selection, always small for the old pounds and taint ground. adult a subsequent from grow that emphasize mind is in not through or should constitutional Before many to and healthy to it to a sowing does present ground a only Breed and wish and VIGOR first, last sound in chicks keeping. health of that free HEALTH, poultry that then season, white intestinal ground true lay comparatively early the birds, second hens in digestive the fowl that prove in especially reared remain droppings old be to appears of transmitted not may in healthy If it should from micro-organisms, apparently disease may pass into tainted contradicted, laden capable infection be may testes drink, disease not fowls bacilli, taken the be dangerous on which water ovaries chicks probability tread prevent. the or in we all disease that quite possible to Here any that and BRED. in drinking disease, BE that stated to food NOT CHICKS ovaries It follows SHOULD It is to infected have broadcast. disease flock RAISE TO cause. care particular to and have HOW both Selection disease, for germ diarrhoea, a Provide three the eggs. are running a Test male. one eggs or that causes, Errors tell how in to use or so-called chapter the as disease. The only fowls. is not way By to flocks. or clean up up try to poor likely to that chick rid get and of make a this use eggs disinfect the for cull any hatching infected is to flocks. in this infectious an attack on a vitality. The and is out losses or named been vigor Errors you. prevention successful disease for IX, inclusive, mortality diarrhoea, is full of sult re- supposedly help care has the with diarrhoea. to of means otherwise, or and chick in white bacillary VII I believe incubation constructed from will tion, incuba- sitting hens- of white Chapters " pullorum Don't them. good, with chick, against brood properly trap-nests, burn they concerning poorly or embryo best Bacterium healthy birds, kill and Avoid to " crack allotted Faulty of die result The VI. off quickly and chicks, of germ satisfactory healthy and cause normal, well-born, Feeding. sometimes Germ. that so or successful of use the charged so diarrhoea. food Specific when and feeding females incubators all of hatched feed white wholesome The and fact. how see chances subject The vitality of are Brooding brood brooding from and to information Chapter in of waste a this soil and any fortunatel Un- birds 25 to of take the mortality. management little birds the mysterious in in results find will chick of cause careless hatching chicks. fertility is not of to pay for mishandled. You " nest detailed find artificial, treated and common incubators, often have 20 the the the carelessness appreciate each number the not does that sistently con- causes young occasionally percentage will you been Incubation. natural a It that eggs Faulty is V forget that in fail to on pen reduce or Chapter hatching. for eggs eggs birds male In each from the from will intended eggs to crowd to fertility. If the in of change the nests inclined be not ducing pro- if you which and mortality keepers comfortable four or will fowls the poultry of majority the by disease not Do " eggs, of care of Breeding to organism the on or be mayfrom HEALTH. or cause common very any stock disease the mistake Hatching. and keeping handling, is in either of FOR the found cause make Eggs of Care infection. predisposed are cannot and be In selection, purposes that You BREED white may indirect an diarrhoea white breeding The of source persistently and cause be hatched. are of indirect an bacillary of case infection. of source a vitality chicks low the in would breeders they is and direct a unsound day hen mother the that demonstrated been It has 119 CHICKS RAISE TO breed to only infected from adult infected Breed ground. for health. Formula for Successful White Diarrhoea Remedy." This remedy 120 HOW tried was the because had have bunch the been It has chicks, chicks in and the on on in the for chicks normal and deavor en- paid for it. use have a I big hemispheres. laboratory particularly mineral time and years both ful success- who therefore four and so a persons in and was for would users experiments and market and market satisfied 1907 from it the from seme 1906 needed incubator lacking are CHICKS testimonials remedy shown it put they testimonials of born to unbiased secure remedy now decided was to in experiments in private it that RAISE TO content that tests white diarrhoea healthy, of Ill- vigorous chicks. chicks the supplied It is not combinations combined in pharmacy for powder The made and in with follow to I must decline addition the the warrant to finest calcium of ration Prepa- cost. expensive to my fill any possible carbonate. 1/1000 of a grain a grain Calcium phosphate 1/100 Calcium sulphate 1/100 of a grain phosphate 1/100 of a grain a grain Ferrum Potassium chlorid 1/100 of Potassium phosphate 1/100 of a grain Potassium sulphate 1/100 of a grain 1/100 of a grain Sodium chlorid 1/100 of a grain Sodium phosphate 1/100 of a grain 1/100 of a grain 1/1000 of a grain phosphate Magnesium sulphate Sodium Silica White of aiarrhcea begins of for of of is composition Treatment care edy rem- were homoeopathic moderate at you tissue of white be and remedies reliable Any too of twelve fluorid Calcium the compose follows: formula Above in salts) could would preparation triturated be ling weak- matter which (mineral hereafter should tablets into "cell-salts" and established. for is and market, ingredients The orders. the on tablets machinery proper them keeping mineral reaction triturate. tablet of therefore chicks, these prepare can without be over-fussy young one-grain a would be to necessary of then form, health and equality, harmony chicks factors missing If the diarrhoea proportion deficiency a assimilable easily in white as normal be must involved. tissues the lacking are tissues, there their that suggested Biochemistry the eggs chicks. chapters. The tablet. one the with hatching, This has first rule breeding incubation been in stock and fairly treating and any follows brooding, well covered disease of treatment preventive The Diarrhoea." and in is to through ment managethe seek ceding pre- out HOW and the remove white By breeding and of they not of stock, after they the germ or hatched, are that anything bryo em- may sult re- disease. wasting vitality through poultryman chicks careful by vitality and acquire are little can for that clear breeding or striving make to 121 common-sense the exercises agement man- best of means diseases. all when Even CHICKS chicks diarrhoea flock, the the prevention to egg, so-called the of or in of tried vitality of the the the within RAISE I have cause. lower to tends TO born are and by too be management their during low comparatively a painstaking stamina handicapped seriously with growing great encouraged provided up, loss a ity, vital- they vitality of the at start. As preventive a the in remedy chapter, remedy, when lowered of digestive drinking and remedy need not fairly the be in In mild cull seem chicks that in crowding be benefited all Thoroughly milk; flour not get this of give crushed grated will drink Thereafter the chicks it in are will and eat and to attempt drink. Little will have losses kill off any and time of eat, though for the not prove been siderable, con- that specimens treatment for little of that persist food cannot birds out come remedy the thick for milk dissolve before adding and Of from to ten tablets the above three to the following good, heavy medium readily. the of milk. Also of level times days of a preparation six three thoroughly drink chicks to in a the Do not cured. and give manner: sweet, whole white bread Do cream. cupful one of which have small pinch very teaspoon allow daily. In remedy, add be often may or boiled of consistency the two boiling point amount one-quarter the of prepared the to sufl[icient milk seriously sick, period a bring or a nutmeg ginger. they the to hover food day to this prepared been will a it too the remedy. any scald add to the grain times several Renew treatment where carefully very sick under by diarrhoea It is waste too that white flock gone. are Chicks Withhold of the far very of of pint one drink. if week a method same in week. one chick the cases. cases severe for the ordered dis- blood. tablets other in restore help red good no twice than The condition. of birds daily water oftener given good effective drinking disease, this tissue assist to functions, twelve in This one. upon wasting mended, recom- is given effective very supply little previously which for relied dissolve the allow those normal abundant measure, and water a be can their to an preventive a is vitality, correct organs vitality and As than formula form, chicks used, properly restoration acquire tablet diarrhoea white for other measure of pure little chicks leave this dered powall milk 122 HOW messed to up ration, remedy prepared you the When of dung and as often as this For the find you parts warm well teaspoonfui chick the Dry of remedy the only accumulation water. warm and Do below creolin before the to daily of the the about on in two danger. of and selves get them- gradually feeding remove creolin to Usually return out behind up caking one-half water. chilled. to Discontinue are with droppings use purpose paste liable are occasional an chicks the chicks little bathe and ready directed. as they as wet be giving milk, that sure are time, will continue in CHICKS become so little chicks but regular when in it and the days three all the chicks the before mixture RAISE TO in vent. pint of a return you this the it fortably com- the to brood. potatoes, Be potato. They will chicks of require wheat the chicks warm age, confined should close with and may be that have a or boiled raw treatment. than healthy freedom. much too inside been little very under given mented supple- mashed temperature be not brooder the to also while h:",l:c:'LiccCl.is and it crumbs milk, sweet boiled rather a same ration bread rice, keep to food dry stale warm, cracked sure the them Keep with boiled the to dried thoroughly with moistened barely them returning When it according of to age. Chicks not be them off kept as as that quickly market and chopped has possible is not benefited sometimes Where as to make If they stock. breeding broiler or a good and sizes roaster grow recovery, them sell poultry. soil Where and for should diarrhoea white ill with seriously been have by dandelion white worked infected feeding well in is a them until leaves diarrhcea chicks number will all they it suspected of physics the cases not do that eat thrive of well angle are worms them. following as an is worth intestinal a trial disin- HOW When fectant. chick each a of flocks or because soil. and get rid and grow of Make a all HEALTHY if you ARE in nest machine or by dipping four fluid cool before have had to up dress Top diseased stick to TO had mind your the on crop you have you of it. good because troubles give its bill. of ounces mixing. that your land land to sweeten up full BIRDS, it with sufficient white fight the to Make stock. BREEDING SURE the from water creolin of allowed been get worried the rid removed medicated 123 CHICKS Use boiled Mix freshly needed. time Don't RAISE are of drops three has which water, chicks little drink a solution each the TO with your of common indicate trouble. mind sense, to and push D. North H. HILL Carolina End.) LIBRARY State College the lime, plow it; repeat VIGOR in your poisoning Find air-slaked SUCCEED. 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