244 PROGRESSIVE POULTRY CULTURE 



SITTING RECORDS. In hatching eggs by the natural 

 method a record is readily kept by using stiff paste- 

 board cards, one for each sitting hen, to be tacked up 

 close to the nest. 



The following is a sample of items that may be 

 placed upon the sitting card: 



SITTING HEN, NO. F 16. 



Breed of Eggs 



Eggs from Pen No, 



Date of Setting 



First Test 



Infertile 



Dead Germs 



Second Test , 



Dead 



Number Hatched 



Number Cripples 



Total strong chicks . 

 Notes: 



Additional headings may be placed on the cards or 

 comments may be made in the foot-notes covering 

 such items as the parentage of the eggs, the method 

 of feeding, housing and managing the parent fowls, 

 their laying record at the time of producing the eggs 

 that were set, the age of the hen when set, the break- 

 ing of any eggs in the nest and the washing of those 

 unbroken, the transfer of eggs to or from the nest, 

 changing the sitting hen, appearance of blood-rings at 

 testing time, strength of chicks hatched, weather con- 

 ditions, and any other information that the poultry- 

 man wishes to have recorded. 



BROODING RECORDS. The record kept in natural 

 brooding is simply the noting of any loss of chicks, 

 day by day, and the stating of the causes if possible. 

 A separate record for each hen's brood should be kept 

 if convenient. 



In machine brooding the deaths and other losses of 



