PART FOUR 



A detailed description of the methods followed on The 

 Tumbach Egg Farm. 



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 Ho\v I Made $10,000 in One Tear -with 4200 Hens" 



Hatching 



All of our hatching is done at a commercial hatchery, 

 the eggs being supplied by us from our own stock. This 

 course was adopted after several years of experience m 

 doing our own hatching. Much may be said in favor of 

 either system but the arguments would leave us where 

 we started ; that is, that we leave the hatching to the man 

 who makes hatching his business. When brooding time 

 comes, bringing with it thousands of chicks, we have 

 nothing on our minds but the care of those chicks. 



The eggs are marked with a rubber-stamp to avoid any 

 possible confusion. It then becomes a matter simply of 

 the honesty of the hatcher as to whether or not we get 

 the chicks from our own eggs. 



We pay the hatcher so much per thousand eggs, re- 

 gardless of the number of chicks hatched. 



We usually provide 6 cases (2160 eggs) for each hatch 

 and we count on about 1500 chicks from this number. 

 In a year of poor hatches we are likely to fall short and 

 in good years we run over that number. The long haul 

 in a truck our eggs are carried 25 miles reduces the 

 hatchability of the eggs of course ; this has been taken 

 into consideration. The hatcher calls for the eggs at our 

 place and delivers the chicks. In both respects he is 

 better equipped and more experienced as to the safest 

 method of carrying than we are or could be. 



