BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



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CHAPTER V. 



Hatching and Brooding. 



34. About Eggs for Hatching. The grower of 

 broilers generally begins operations about the time winter 

 sets in. He may have from his own yards a part of the 

 eggs he needs. If he is running many incubators he is 

 likely to have to buy a large proportion of the eggs he 

 wants at this season, and if he is wise he will be as par- 

 ticular as possible about where the eggs he buys come 

 from. Once in a while a man will have very good hatches 

 from eggs picked up at a store or commission house, but 

 as a rule operators of incubators find hatches at this season 

 none too good even after they have taken every precaution 

 in their power to get good hatchable eggs. The most sat- 

 isfactory way, when eggs have to be bought, is to make 

 arrangements with poultry keepers in the vicinity who 

 have laying at that time flocks of the general type of fowl 

 from which it is desired to hatch, to take their eggs every 

 few days. It is not always possible to get all the eggs one 

 can use in this way, but one who continues in the business 

 can within a few years work up a connection of this kind 



