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Stable Comforts 



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Winter Eggs Aplenty! 



WITH practically no experience in raising 

 chickens, I decided last spring to try my 

 luck with them in a very small way. I purchased 

 a 120-egg incubator (which, by the way, I found 

 would only hold in eggs). After some difficulty 

 in getting it together (the thermostat being some- 

 what of a mystery to me) I started it on the 19th 

 of March with 105 eggs, which were just the ordin- 

 ary store article — for, to tell the truth, I did not 

 expect very great results from my first attempt. 

 On the night of the seventh day I tested for infer- 

 tile eggs, and removed sixteen which I found were 

 clear. For the purpose of testing I used a small 

 storage battery electric lamp which threw a strong, 

 bright light, making it very easy to distinguish the 

 difference between the fertile and infertile. As I 

 had foolishly placed the incubator in a building 

 which was draughty, I found it rather hard to keep 

 the thermometer at 103 degrees, and I had varia- 

 tions from 89 to no degrees. 



But in spite of all these drawbacks, on April 

 9th I managed to hatch fifty-four chicks from the 

 eighty-nine eggs. These I placed in an outdoor 

 brooder, and without letting the lamp in the 

 incubator go out, started a second hatch with in 

 eggs, forty of which were White Wyandotte eggs, 

 purchased at a cost of $4-75. The others were 

 store eggs. On April 30th, according to schedule, 

 fifty-seven chicks arrived from eighty-five fertile 

 eggs. I fed them on a prepared chick food mixed 

 with bread crumbs, which had previously been 

 browned in the oven, and softened the whole with 

 sufficient milk to make it moist, but not wet and 

 soggy. The only mortality during the summer 

 months was eleven drowned in a thunder storm. 

 These chickens turned out to be the most mixed 

 up lot of hens that you ever saw — whites, blacks, 

 mixed colors, and Dominicks — but among them 

 were ten handsome White Wyandottes. 



At the approach of real cold days I took the 

 remaining thirty-eight pullets and four cockerels 

 (the rest having been consumed at the broiler age) 

 and placed them in a comfortable house I had 

 erected on the southwest side of the barn, and I 

 consider my real success now begins. 



A hen in winter is unable to forage to any great 

 extent, and is, therefore, deprived of three very 

 important articles necessary for egg production 

 — meat, found in the form of insects and worms; 

 vegetation; and lime, as found in shells or plaster. 

 Some think that it is not natural for hens to lay in 

 winter, but why shouldn't an April-hatched pullet 

 be in condition to lay in December if one hatched 

 in July will lay in early spring? 



After reading a good deal on the subject of 

 feeding, I decided to adopt the following method: 

 I feed the grain in a hopper, equal parts of cracked 

 corn, crushed oats and wheat. I have a box kept 

 filled with beef-scraps and another filled with 

 cracked oyster shells and grit. Every day or so I 

 throw in an armful of clover hay and the hens 

 also get the skimmed milk from the house. Also 

 plenty of fresh water. To keep them exercising I 

 throw a handful of grain in the litter. 



By supplying the hens with everything they need 

 when they need it, I find they never gorge them- 

 selves as they do when fed regularly. I attribute 

 my success in getting eggs in winter to a liberal, 

 varied diet, a house free from draughts, but well 

 ventilated, and to early hatched chicks. 



On October 29th the first egg was laid, and dur- 

 ing November I gathered sixty-two. In Decem- 

 ber the hens started laying more freely, and 213 



