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boards with netting, as the chicks will not jump out 

 during the couple of days the runs are in use. 



If the eggs were hatched in nesting boxes, the 

 coops, as described, will be all set ready in the field, 

 and the hens and young are more easily trans- 

 ferred. 



If you have a number of hens and chicks to move, 

 you may carry the former half a dozen at a time in a 

 sack, and the latter may be taken, fifty or more 

 together, in a large basket, well protected, of course, 

 from the air by flannel. 



The chicks can be served out indiscriminately to 

 the hens fourteen to every hen. Do not allow the 

 chicks to be more than fifteen to twenty minutes 

 away from the warmth of their hens, and transport 

 them, if you can, in the sunshine. 



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