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Fourth day — The pulsation of the heart is distin- 
guishable by the naked eye. 
Sixth day — The chief vessels and organs rudimen- 
tally formed; the pulsation and circulation of blood 
apparent. 
Ninth day — Intestines and reins formed, and the 
deposition of flesh and bony substance commenced; the 
beak for the first time opens. 
Twelfth day — The feathers hare protruded; the 
skull has become cartilaginous ; and the first voluntary 
movement of the chick is made. 
Fifteenth day — Organs, vessels, bones, feathers, 
closely approaching in appearance to the natural state. 
Eighteenth day — Vital mechanism nearly developed, 
and the first sign of life heard from the piping chick. 
Twenty-first day — The chicks break the shell, and 
in two or three hours are quite active and lively. 
We have perused various modes of tending and 
feeding the young brood, upon its first appearance, but 
have found none more successful than the following : — 
The parent is to be removed, along with the young, 
to a box or other receptacle, under cover, about four or 
five feet square, and eighteen inches deep. She, with 
the brood, are to be placed in a small coop, inside the 
box, so that she may be secured from treading upon 
them. A little soft hay should be put into the coop, 
and some dry sand or earth in a comer of the box, and 
the food placed within reach of both. 
