June, 1922 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



143 



Pointers on 



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Poultry 



Suggestions on Brooding 



F. C. Elford, Dominion Poultry Husbandman 



NATURAL brooding need not be such a 

 trouble if: — -1. The chicks are healthy, 

 bred from heavy, clean parents. 2. The 

 chicks are free from lice. The setting hen should 

 be dusted before setting and again before coming 

 off the nest with the chicks. 



3. The hen makes a good mother. This can 

 be ascertained during incubation. If a hen 

 proves clumsy and cross, she should not be 

 used to mother the chicks. 



4. Suitable arrangements are made for broody 

 coops. These may be just large enough for one 

 hen and her family or a small colony house that 

 will hold several hens. They should be repaired 

 and disinfected, and placed in a sheltered loca- 

 tion upon new ground. 



5. The chicks are fed often but not too much 

 at a time and kept away from the rest of the 

 flock. 



Artificial brooding may be made successful if 

 in addition to what is said above, which applies 

 to artificial as well as^natural, attention is given 

 to the following: — 



1. Good brooding conditions are provided. 

 This is more important in artificial orooding 

 than in natural. The brooder should be heated 

 to 95 or. 100 degrees before the chicks are put 

 in it and that after a thorough disinfecting of 

 the brooder and house. 



2. The brooder must have plenty of ventila- 

 tion without draughts. Too manv of the box- 

 like brooders sold are only death traps. 



3. Not more than 50 chicks to any small 

 brooder. 



4. The colony brooder stove is the best for 

 large numbers but even it should never be 

 crowded. 



5. Feed little and often. This is more im- 

 portant in artificial than in natural. For the 

 first week, or two, a hungry chick is a healthy 

 chick. 



6. The essentials in artificial brooding may be 

 summed up in healthy chicks to start with, 

 clean brooders with plenty of fresh air and no 

 draughts, fed little and often, and fresh ground 

 upon which they should be allowed as soon as 

 they can be let out. 



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