vi. PHEASANT REARING (PART V} 89 



from the eggs of other nests known by their cards to 

 have been set at a similar date, and thus the eggs in 

 each nest will hatch on the same day a result which 

 much simplifies the work both of the hen and the 

 keeper. 



The nests should be filled up in regular order 

 from one end of the line of boxes or coops to the 

 other say from right to left. 



This procedure will sometimes result in all the 

 eggs being transferred forward from one or two nests 

 at the right end of the line, in order to make up the 

 nests that have lost eggs at the left end to their full 

 number. 



To counteract this, place in the nests you have 

 robbed fresh sittings of eggs due to hatch out 

 together, though possibly later than the ones first 

 set. 



Some keepers write the date of setting on every 

 egg when it is given to the hen ; but this is needless 

 trouble, as cards on the nesting boxes or the coops 

 will tell you all you require to know. 



If it happens that a few eggs chip, and show 

 evidence of hatching much earlier than the others, 

 place these in nests to themselves, so that the chicks 

 may, in this case, also hatch more or less sin-mi - 

 taneously. 



A week before the date of hatching, carry a basin 

 of warm water round, and, with a tuft of feathers or 



