Raising Incubator Chicks 167 



style, heated by a kerosene lamp, and costing four 

 or five dollars. 



A brief consideration will make it plain that this 

 type of hover is far easier to handle than one where 

 a box or chamber is heated to shelter the chicks. 

 In such a hover the temperature must be exactly 

 right, for the chick has no chance to regulate mat- 

 teis for himself. The matter of ventilation is also 

 important. With this large drum the chick simply 

 cannot be stifled, or stunted by poor ventilation, 

 because he has aU the air in the room about him 

 to breathe, not that in a small enclosed closet. 

 Another point in its favor is that the heat radiates 

 from above. A chick wants heat on his back, not 

 on his feet. We often see chickens standing in the 

 snow, with their backs up under the warm feathers 

 of a watchful hen, in perfect comfort. 



Handling the Large Hover. — For raising a flock 

 with the large, coal hover, we need a brooder 

 house carefully built to avoid drafts, with a win- 

 dow high up for ventilation. This may be built 

 on the ground, with protection from rats, or even 

 better, up a foot or so, with a solid floor. The size 

 of the house will be judged according to the size 

 of the hover, which will come with full instructions. 



