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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 16 
OVERHEATED AMD OVERFED CHIC AS. 
On January 31, 60 B. P. Rock chicks 
hatched out. They were very smart, and 
grew finely until they were about 10 days 
old; then they commenced to die. Th( y 
seemed to choke; would stand with their 
mouths open, totter and fall down. Some 
would die at once; others would get better 
for a few days. They seemed to lose the 
use of their legs. I have lost about one- 
half; the rest totter around; some go back¬ 
wards and do not seem able to scratch 
much. They are still quite hearty. I put 
them in a Cyphers Indoor brooder; the tem¬ 
perature has run from 70 to 95 degrees. 1 
have had a fire in the room, with tempera¬ 
ture about 70 degrees. They have been 
fed rolled oats, a mash of about two-thirds 
bran, one-third cornmeal, mixed up with 
milk quite dry, with a little beef scrap; 
fine cracked corn, hard-boiled eggs, chop¬ 
ped cabbage, curded milk, etc., wltb plenty 
of sand and gravel; also hay chaff to 
scratch in. Can you tell me what to do 
for them? 1 have another hatch coming 
off In a few days, and would like to know 
what to do to save them. This is my first 
experience with Winter chicks. c. u. b. 
So. Paris, Me. 
The chicks are overheated and over¬ 
fed. They are dying from indigestion. 
The temperature in the brooder, when 
chicks go in, should be 90 degrees, and 
as they usually raise the heat about 10 
degrees, turn down the lamp flame a 
trifle when you put them in. Never let 
the hover run over 90 degrees, and grad¬ 
ually lower to 80 by end of second week, 
and to 70 degrees by end of fourth week. 
The room in which they exercise should 
not run over 65 degrees, in cold weather, 
nor much under it. The hover, brooder 
and room should be kept clean, sweet 
and well ventilated. For the first two 
weeks feed rolled oats, just what they 
will eat up clean in 10 or 15 minutes. 
Always have fresh, clean water, fine 
sharp grit, charcoal (powdered) and 
bone meal at hand for them. Toward the 
close of the second week work them 
graaually into fine cracked corn, pin¬ 
head wheat and other grains in the 
litter, and give them one mash a day, 
beginning with one-fourth part corn- 
meal, one-fourth wheat bran, one-fourth 
wheat middlings and one-fourth steeped 
clover to wet it, gradually increasing 
proportion of cornmeal to one-half as 
they grow^older and five per cent beef 
scraps in their mash. The important 
point is to keep good air, even tempera¬ 
ture, and not overfeed. Make them work 
for every mouthful as soon as possible, 
and only give what is quickly eaten up 
clean. Leave no food around. Those 
that are overfed—your first hatch—I 
would advise you to diet. Give them 
charcoal and grit, the right amount of 
heat, a light feed of rolled oats and lin¬ 
seed meal, and, I think, they will come 
out all right._ i'. k- 'v. 
RROODERS. 
“Where will you put your little 
chicks?” The question is a simple one, 
but too many of the people purchasing 
incubators—if it is addressed to them— 
will look dazed, and reply that they do 
not know; have not thought. Most farm 
tools are expected to do the work they 
are bought for. Why should the incu¬ 
bator be an exception? Why is the 
novice astonished when the eggs hatch, 
and why is no efficient arrangement 
made ahead for the mothering of the 
costly flock? I asked these questions of 
the New York manager of our leading 
incubator and he replied: 
“It ix strange. I do not understand it 
myself; but very frequently we receive 
telegrams like this: ‘Surprised by good 
hatch. Express us brooder at once.’ So 
many who purchase our machines act 
as though they have not enough faith 
in artificial incubation to buy the fix¬ 
tures necessary to save the birds!” 
I had a neighbor whose first hatch 
was 128 fine chicks. She provided one 
Plymouth Rock hen and a bantam to 
mother them! When I expostulated, 
she said that she thought she would bet¬ 
ter not buy a brooder till she saw wheth¬ 
er she had anything to put in it! Most 
of her chicks died, and instead of a good 
profit she was out of pocket, and had a 
lot of needless worry and remorse, fo" 
there is no more pitiful sight to the 
operator than the sickening and dying 
off of an erstwhile, healthy, happy flock 
of birds; poor, little motherless things! 
Hens, if managed right, make good 
mothers. I hatched over 200 for a friend 
who kept Brown Leghorns. He secured 
ahead eight Plymouth Rock sitting 
hens; kept a couple of eggs under each 
till my hatch was off; then—at night— 
he carefully substituted chicks. They 
all but three lived, and his verdict is 
that mine were more vigorous and 
hardy, matured earlier and were larger 
than those hatched by his hens. Again, 
I hatched a sitting for another person; 
When his chicks came off, his mother 
hens had gon,e off. I believe he eventu¬ 
ally lost every one. That man “didn’t 
think much of incubator birds; not very 
healthy, anyhow!” 
The shrinkage and loss in artificial 
incubation is owing, principally, to 
hatching more fowls than can be proper¬ 
ly mothered. One hatch raised is worth 
more than three where the mortality is 
heavy. If the operator starts with the 
firm conviction that he is going to have 
a fair percentage of birds, and has the 
comfortable sense of ample provision 
made for warmth and shelter during the 
first 10 weeks of their lives that indi¬ 
vidual will probably make a success of 
the work. Failure is often invited by 
providing but a single brooder with an 
incubator. Two are usually necessary 
so that at about six weeks old the 
chicks can be divided. While at first 100 
chicks have enough room in an ordinary 
brooder, later on it should not have over 
50. Deformity, debility and mortality 
follow overcrowding. The operator 
should either provide another set of 
brooders for his second hatch or with¬ 
hold his hand for seven weeks till the 
first hatch can be safely removed to 
roosts. While not wishing to blame in¬ 
cubator men on this head, sad experi¬ 
ence has taught the writer that in some 
cases they are prone to give their cus¬ 
tomers too generous a share of the 
knowledge that experience, not advice, 
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