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cessful or if you could handle more young stock than 

 you have this might be worth while. But great care 

 must be exercised or your last state will be worse than 

 your first. If it is at all possible it would be better to 

 keep the new lot entirely separate from your own. If 

 this is not practicable you must be sure that the birds 

 are not coming from a place where disease has been ram- 

 pant and that the chicks are not infested with lice. It 

 seldom pays to buy a run down lot that someone has 

 failed with — you are only risking your own. 



Under no circumstances should hen-brooded chicks be 

 mixed with incubator lots; this applies no matter how 

 clean of lice they may seem to be. The possible gain is 

 not worth the risk. If you can't keep the hen-hatched 

 lot separate from the others do not buy or take them. 



Taking Out the Cockerels 



, We take out the cockerels at from 5 to 6 weeks — those 

 that are easily distinguished. They can usually be se- 

 lected by their combs and shape, but the selection at that 

 age is more or less guesswork, especially for a novice. 

 Take out only those of which you are reasonably certam, 

 and as others show up, take them out. Keep cockerels 

 with the pullets rather than to put pullets with the 

 cockerels. 



They are put into the cockerel house which has been 

 heavily bedded down with straw under the roosts, a 

 narrow board being tacked to the edge of the roosts to 

 keep most of the straw in place. If the weather is bad 

 they are kept indoors; but in any event they are not let 

 out until toward noon of the day after they are moved. 



