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In the February issue reference was made 

 to the two methods of hatching chicks — by hen 

 and by machine. We shall discuss in this 

 issue some of the different chick foods that are 

 equally good for the chicks, whether reared in 

 a brooder or by the mother hen. Some breed- 

 ers use broody hens to rear the chicks hatched 

 by an incubator. This is a good method if 

 the season is advanced, say, May and June, 

 b'ut in March and early in April broody hens 

 are not obtainable in sufficient numbers, and 

 it is then that a brooder becomes a necessity. 



As with the incubator, so with the brooder, 

 each manufacturer sends the fullest and most 

 complete directions. The operator cannot do 

 better than follow those instructions to the 

 letter, and only change when experience has 

 taught him that better results will follow any 

 changes made. 



jNo machine will rear all the chicks put into 

 it, or very rarely. It is true also that 90% of 

 the hen mothers trample one or more of her 

 brood to death in the 4 or 5 weeks they are 

 with her. It would be unfair to the machine, 

 too, to blame il for the chicken mortality which 



may result from earlier causes The hens that 

 laid the eggs may have been laying hard all win- 

 ter and are slightly run down, and while the 

 egg hatches the chick may be constitutionally 

 weak, and no care, whether by hen or brooder, 

 will save it. Buy your eggs from vigorous 

 stock, preferably from fowl that have been 

 kept in cold houses; that is, where no artificial 

 heat is used, and again from fowl that have 

 been fed chiefly grain and very little soft food 

 or mash, for experiments have proved that 

 fertility of egg is higher where hens have been 

 fed dry food. This is important early in the 

 season. 



Having removed the chicks from the incu- 

 bator to the brooder, which has been prepared 

 for their reception according to received direc- 

 tions, the next care is to feed them carefully. 

 Some experts do not recommend feeding for 

 the first 36 hours because the yolk of the egg 

 (on which the chick lives immediately after 

 hatching) takes that timd to be absorbed or 

 assimilated. I think that 36 hours is rather 

 long. They will eat readily at 24 hours after 

 hatching. Then let them have very light 

 feed. Fine grit should be in the litter or chaff 

 on the floor of the brooder, and will be picked 

 up by the chicks to their advantage. Early in 

 the season it is much harder to feed successfully 

 than in the warmer weather when the brooder 

 can be placed outside. When obtainable, it 

 saves a good deal of time to feed the prepared 

 foods such as the Cyphers Chick Food, which 



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President 



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is composed of the different grains and mej 

 meal in the proper proportions. This food ca 

 be used for the first 4 weeks, and the cheapt 

 grains afterwards. 



For soft food, iht Puritan Meal is niuc 

 thought of in Cittawa, and is generally usei 

 Hard-boiled eggs. choi)ped fine, are alwaj 

 good, and stale bread, soaked in milk an 

 squeezed dry, into which a little fine choppe 

 onion or lettuce has been added, makes a goc 

 soft feed. If blood or meat meal is not coi 

 venient, boiled liver cut fine and fed every 

 or 4 days is excellent. It is well to understan 

 that every 1,^ chicks put into the brooder wi 

 raise the temperature one degree, so watch tl 

 temperature that it is neither too hot nor coli 

 especially for the first week. 



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