70 TWENTY LESSONS ON POULTRY KEEPING 



will protect the clucks from sudden showers. There is no 

 danger of lire with a natural brooder, and the chicks are not 

 often smothered by crowding, as they sometimes are in an 

 artificial brooder. But on the other hand, an artificial 

 brooder can take care of many more chicks than a hen ; and 

 the dangers it exjjoses them to are not much more serious 

 than those they are likely to experience when mothered bv 

 a hen. Little chicks are often exposed by the hen to ver- 

 min. Occasionally they are killed by their mothers, who 

 fight them, step on them, or draggle them through wet 

 grass. 



REVIEW 



1. Define natural and artificial ineuliation. 



2. Tell all you ean about the dillVreut ])arts of an egg. 

 .3. Give tile elTeets of the drying of an egg. 



4. Describe fully a hateliing box. 



5. Describe an incubator. 



QUESTIONS 



1. What does the hen do for the baby chick? 



2. What does the cliicl< do for food just after hatching? ( 



3. What should a chick be fed first? 



4. What changes should be made in the food ? 



5. Describe a good brood coop for hen and chickens. 

 0. Give some advantages of a brood coop. 



7. What is a brooder? 



8. Name the different kinds of brooders. 



9. Give some advantages of botli natural and artificial lirooding. 

 )0 Give some disadvantages of each. 



HOME WORK 

 Make a good brood coop for a lien and cliiekens. 



