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Be sure to set the brooder where the sun will not shine on 

 it, in installing it in a house, and do not put more than 60 chicks 

 in a 100-chick brooder. 



REMOVING CHICKS TO BROODER. 



We will now assume that the period of incubation is com- 

 pleted, and that the chicks are ready to be removed from the 

 nest. It is 24 hours at least since the last chicks broke the 

 shell, and may be 48 hours since the first hardy pioneer made 

 his entrance into our sinful world. I assume that two or three 

 times while the chicks were hatching you gently lifted up the 

 mother hen and removed the fragments of broken egg shell 

 from the nest. 



And now comes the most important and in some ways the 

 most disagreeable part of the whole business the transfer of 

 the chicks from the nest to the brooder, which may be some 

 distance away. You cannot choose your day it may be cold or 

 it may be warm but you can choose the warmest part of it 

 for your purpose. Better take your wife with you, if you are 

 fortunate enough to have one. Take a shallow basket, such as 

 is used for marketing, and line the bottom with a piece of old 

 woolen blanket, which has previously been warmed. Over this 

 lay another piece of warmed blanket, to put over the chickens 

 when they are placed in the basket. 



As each chicken is taken out from under the hen anoint its 

 head lightly with lard or vaseline, to kill head lice, and place it 

 quickly in the basket. When the basket is full take the chicks 

 to the brooder house and place them in the hover, which has 

 been brought to a temperature of 100 degrees. 



If 'you are a man of tender sensibilities you will feel as if 

 you were a kidnapper or a manstealer when you take the chicks 

 away from their mother. You will feel, as one man expressed 

 it to me, "to mean to look a hen in the face." But, fortunate- 

 ly, the hen does not suffer long she soon forgets. Place her 

 in a bright, sunny pen where there are other hens and a male, 

 supply her with more varied food than she has been accus- 

 tomed to during the period of incubation, and in a few days she 

 will be scratching and singing as merily as of yore. 



TWO SECRETS OF SUCCESS HEAT AND FEEDING. 



The two great secrets of success in raising brooder chicks 

 are proper heat and proper feeding. The heat should come 

 from overhead, as this is the most natural method, and should 

 be hot air. Bear in mind that the young chick needs a great 



