Also remember that when you take out a lot of 

 chicks you take with them a lot of animal heat, 

 and you should raise the lamp flame a little, for 

 the temperature must be kept up to the same point 

 until the hatch is finished, if you want the best 

 results. 



DEAD IN THE SHELL. 



Why do chicks die in the shell ; what is the 

 cause of it ? 



This question is asked again and again in all the 

 poultry papers. It is asked not only in regard to 

 those that die in the mechanical or artificial incu- 

 bator, but those also that die in the shell while 

 under the sitting hens, ducks, turkeys, geese, etc. 

 But the person who has just commenced running 

 an artificial incubator, loses sight of this fact, and 

 thinks that if some eggs hatch, every in egg the 

 machine should hatch, or that certainly all eggs 

 which start to incubate should bring out chicks. 



While in a great many instances the majority of 

 cases of " dead in the shell ' ' may be justly charged 

 to the incubator or the sitting hen, it is not always so. 



Again, though there are first-class incubators 

 which do hatch well, it must not be taken for 

 granted that all incubators are good. There are 

 good and bad incubators as there are good and 

 bad hens and good and bad eggs. 



The fact that some hens steal their nest and bring 

 out a chick from every egg, or do nearly that well, 

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