VI 



HANDLING AND FEEDING THE YOUNG 

 FROM MACHINES 



Brooding Equipment— Vital Points in Brooding — The 

 Best Brooder — Disinfected Common Sense — From 

 Incubator to Brooder — A Fair Chance for Life — Sav- 

 ing Chicks, Saving Work, Saving Money — Keep the 

 Chicks Outside — A Warm Back — A Fireless Brooder 

 — Shipping Baby Chicks — Good Feeds 



Specifically, this chapter deals with handling chicks, 

 although much that is general will apply also to all 

 young domestic birds. For years, it has been an 

 opinion very generally expressed among poultry writers 

 that good brooding was a much more difficult matter 

 than good incubating. One of the keenest men I know 

 of, closely and largely connected with poultry work, 

 says he knows of no phase of poultry keeping that 

 requires more thought than the proper selection of 

 brooding equipment for the young. This equipment 

 is always high-priced in the best grades. But, because 

 the builders of brooders are more hkely to know the 

 principles underlying the matter than are those who 

 have bestowed less thought on it, it is vital to the 

 Beginner to secure the best brooder to be had, unless 

 he should decide to use a " fireless." The one reason 

 why he can do this is that the " fireless" does not have 

 to deal at all with the principles of artificial heating 

 and of ventilating such heated space. Beyond this, 

 the question of using the fireless brooders is simply 



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