AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



It is best not to be in too big a hurry to re- 

 move chicks from the incubator or from the nest. 

 No chick should ever be disturbed until it has be- 

 come thoroughly dried off and has had some little 

 time to gain strength. When removed, incubator 

 chicks should be placed in a deep basket and cov- 

 ered with warm cloths or burlap. With a hen the 

 chicks should be cared for in much the same man- 

 ner while being transferred to their coop, while 

 the mother may be carried in the hands of the 

 attendant. 



Just prior to exclusion from the shell the chick 

 takes into its body the comparatively large unab- 

 What and sorbed remnant of the yolk of the 

 How to egg, and this alone is sufficient to 



Feed Chicks support uf e f or several days. The 



author never feeds his chicks until they are at 

 least forty-eight hours old; frequently not until 

 they are sixty hours old, and sometimes not until 

 they are seventy-two hours old. Chicks have been 

 known in extreme cases to thrive when given no 

 supplied food until they were five or six days old, 

 so to withhold food for two or three days is no 

 hardship, but really the best thing that can be done. 

 No water is given until after the chicks have been 

 fed their first meal; after this time it is kept con- 

 stantly before the chicks as there is thus less danger 

 of over-drinking than where water is supplied only 

 at intervals. Grit and charcoal are also placed 



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