CARE OF BROODER CHICKS 



The hatching of chicks is but half the battle, for eggs from good, 

 vigorous parents will hatch with but little trouble if a good stan- 

 dard incubator is used and if the directions with it are followed. 

 How about the raising of the chicks after they are hatched? 



The poultry papers agree that there is not a subject pertaining 

 to poultry culture that needs more thorough, painstaking investi- 

 gation and discussion than the care of the chicks, and it is said 

 that not more than fifty per cent of the chicks that are hatched the 

 country over reach maturity or a marketable age. 



What are the principal causes of mortality among chicks ; how 

 can we combat them and what are the essentials in the successful 

 raising of chicks? 



BROODER HOUSES, 14x20, DAVISON RANCH, ARLINGTON. EACH HOUSE BUILT TO 

 CONTAIN 1500 CHICKS. WITH AUTOMATIC HEATER. 



There are numberless causes for the death we deplore among 

 these are diarrhoea, bowel trouble, lice, improper feeding, impure 

 water, overheating or chilling and exposure to the elements. 



Feeling sure that the mortality in chicks is caused in a majority 

 of cases by the carelessness or ignorance of the caretaker, let us 

 discuss this subject and glean from the best authorities some ideas 

 about it as far as we may in one short article. 



Expert Opinion 



Prof. James E. Rice, of Cornell University, has for several years 

 been making a careful study of the cause and cure or prevention 

 of the numerous diseases that cause the death of hundreds of 

 thousands of chicks yearly, and his investigations have led him to 

 believe that one great cause of mortality is the failure on the part 

 of the digestive organs of the chicks to properly digest the yolk of 

 the egg remaining in their bodies at the time of hatching. 



