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 suport life for 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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