1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
611 
SHIPPING EGGS OR FOWLS TO CUBA 
I expect next Spring or Fall to go to the 
Isle of I’ines (just south of Cuba) to live, 
and raise oranges, grape fruit, tangerines and 
Winter vegetables. 1 have a very tine strain 
of Barred Plymouth Bocks and want to take 
them with me. Do you think they would do 
well in that climate? I will also take some 
Black Minorca eggs with me; will they do 
well south, or what breed would you advise 
me to take? G. F. y. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
I have shipped fowls to Cuba and other 
southern countries. 1 would advise taking 
the fowls rather than eggs, and to take along 
two males in case one should die. 
a. c. HAWKINS. 
We think there would be no trouble in tak¬ 
ing the B. P. Rocks down to the Isle of I’ines. 
We think they would thrive well there with 
good care. Would advise giving them plenty 
of shade and a variety of food, and feel con¬ 
fident they would make good returns. 
JAMES RANKIN. 
We would advise your customer to take his 
poultry with him rather than to depend on 
eggs for hatching. We have shipped breed¬ 
ing stock many times to Cuba and other 
southern points, and do not remember ever 
receiving a single unfavorable report, but do 
distinctly remember very good reports coming 
from such shipments. knapp bros. 
I have sent White Leghorns to Cuba, also 
eggs for hatching. The eggs do not hatch 
very well, owing, no doubt, to rough handling 
in transit. The White Leghorns have done 
nicely, the climate seeming io be favorable 
to Mediterraneans. As to how Barred Ply¬ 
mouth Rocks would do there I do not know, 
but would prefer to take the birds there 
rather than to take eggs. H. J. Blanchard. 
Although one of the non-sitting breeds 
would seem to be better suited to the warm 
climate of the Isle of Pines, I see no reason 
why Barred Rocks would not do well, and 
if the strain is a really tine one would at 
least take enough to give a foundation Hock 
instead of depending on eggs and starting 
over again. The greatest difficulty with the 
Plymouth Rocks would be their disposition to 
sit during the hot weather, when even a Leg¬ 
horn sometimes fancies a vacation. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
We would not advise your customer who ex¬ 
pects to go to the Isle of Pines to try to 
transport any eggs for hatching. It will be 
much better for him to take along one or two, 
preferably two, pens of good breeding stock. 
If he takes them in large roomy coops he will 
have no trouble in getting the birds there In 
good condition. Ordinarily, we think any of 
the Leghorn varieties are better for the trop¬ 
ical climates, although we are advised that 
some of our customers in Mexico are doing 
very well indeed with the Plymouth Rocks 
and White Wyandottes. As a rule, however, 
we should judge from what we have learned 
that any of the Mediterranean varieties are 
more satisfactory. cyphers incubator co. 
" e have shipped White Leghorns to Cuba 
and Porto Rico, and know no reason why 
Plymouth Rocks would not do as well in that 
climate as Minorcas or Leghorns. We would 
advise shipping the hens rather than taking 
the eggs and hatching them there, for it is a 
difficult matter to ship eggs so far and get 
a good hatch of chickens. To get good re¬ 
sults, when packing eggs for hatching, they 
should be packed in excelsior or other springy 
material, each egg wrapped separately. This 
will prevent the jarring during shipment 
which spoils so many eggs for batching. 
Since packing eggs after this plan we have 
had few complaints of poor hatches and no 
broken eggs. The express rate on 100 pounds 
live poultry between New York City and the 
Isle of Pines is $10 via the Cuban and Pan- 
American Express Co. For this sum about 
15 hens could be shipped, and this flock would 
produce nearly 1,000 eggs during the hatching 
season, which could be hatched in one incu¬ 
bator by keeping it going during the Spring 
months as fast as the eggs were laid. If 
1,000 eggs were shipped instead of the 15 
hens the cost would be about the same, and 
it would require several Incubators to he in 
operation at the same time to incubate the 
eggs before they got too old to hatch. Every¬ 
thing considered, we think shipping the 
chickens would give double the results over 
shipping the eggs such a distance. 
ZIMMER BROS. 
I think Black Minorcas would be more sat¬ 
isfactory than Barred Rocks in Cuba. The 
Minorca is a lighter feathered bird and a non¬ 
sitter. Lice of all kinds are ever with us, 
but a sitting hen is doubly afflicted. I know 
that this is a serious question in warm cli¬ 
mates. Some of my customers prefer birds 
and some eggs to be sent them, some thinking 
that birds hatched in a different climate from 
where they were produced will not feel the 
difference in the change so much. But in 
points where eggs have to pass through the 
custom house they are often delayed until the 
warm temperature has ruined them. I had 
one customer in Cuba who wrote to have his 
Bggs sent by mail, as they would be from two 
to three weeks at the custom house if sent by 
express. I never had sent eggs that way, but 
to oblige the man I did so. Minorca eggs are 
so heavy that the one sitting had to be divid¬ 
ed into two packages. It is needless to say 
that I did not mark these eggs, “Eggs for 
hatching; handle with care.” I just let them 
go. They reached the man the sixth day, one 
being cracked, none broken. IIow those that 
hatched matured and became acclimated I 
never knew. Again, I sent eggs to Honolulu. 
The steamer broke down, and the eggs were 
all spoiled. Birds properly cooped and pro¬ 
vided with food would have gone safely. 
These instances are only examples. Why does 
not the inquirer try both ways, since he has 
the stock and they are doubtless laying? 
MRS. GEO. E. MONROE. 
I think the B. P. Rock will stand the 
change of climate, and would be more pro¬ 
ductive than any other breed you could ship 
to Cuba. We have shipped a great many 
birds to that country, but the majority have 
been Plymouth Rocks, and if the inquirer has 
a good line of these fowls he is perfectly safe 
in shipping them to that country. The only 
care to lie exercised is to be sure that they 
are properly fed during the trip, and fed very 
lightly after they have reached their destina¬ 
tion, until they become acclimated. The trou¬ 
ble with the majority of birds is the cholera. 
The Black Minorcas will stand the climate, 
but I think the Barred Plymouth Rocks will 
give better satisfaction. He should ship pul¬ 
lets, not old hens, and strong, vigorous cock¬ 
erels, not cock birds. wm. v. russ. 
TROUBLE WITH YOUNG CHICKS. 
Why do incubator chicks come out of the 
shell stuck up with a sticky, gluey substance, 
taking 20 to 24 hours to dry off, while others 
in same lot die In the shell even after they 
have broken the shell almost entirely around? 
•The chicks seem to get smaller after a few 
days than when first hatched, and are very 
weak, 50 or 60 per cent, dying and the re¬ 
mainder not making satisfactory growth. The 
incubator has been run according to direc¬ 
tions sent out with it, eggs aired five to 20 
minutes without moisture. Would I get bet¬ 
ter results by airing the eggs longer and using 
some moisture? The machine in question is 
a hot-air machine, and has four two-inch holes 
In bottom covered with wire cloth, through 
which the foul air is supposed to escape. 
When the chicks hatch and fall on the bottom 
of the machine the flannelette cloth presses 
down over the ventilators, thus shutting off 
the escape of the gases. May not this be 
the cause of the trouble? a. o. 
Tipton, Ark. 
So many things may combine to pro¬ 
duce the conditions that this correspond¬ 
ent complains of that it is difficult, if not 
impossible, to specify any single thing as 
the cause. He says he “has run the in¬ 
cubator according to the directions sent 
with it,” but doesn’t say whether it was 
run in a damp cellar or in a dry room 
well aired; and it makes all the differ¬ 
ence in the world, so to speak, where the 
incubator stood. In such hot dry weather 
as we have had this Spring and Summer 
I do not think any hot-air incubator could 
be successfully run (except in a very 
damp place) without moisture being sup¬ 
plied. The condition of the chicks as he 
describes them indicates insufficient mois¬ 
ture, and it is no wonder that chicks so 
poorly hatched do not live, or do not 
thrive even if they do not die. The con¬ 
dition of the hen that lays the egg is also 
a factor that cannot be neglected. I have 
seen chicks when hatched under hens 
come out in that “sticky, gluey,” condi¬ 
tion, such chicks being always weakly, and 
would generally die sooner or later. As 
a breeder who raises and keeps several 
thousand fowls said to me: “If it wasn’t 
for the raising of chicks the hen business 
would be easy; that requires an expert.” 
After G. O. has been in the hen business 
10 years he will begin to learn what a 
hqap of things he doesn’t know about it. 
It is good practice to set eggs under 
hens at the same time the incubator is 
started, so you can compare the size of the 
air chamber and see whether the incubator 
eggs are drying out too fast or not fast 
enough; also as a means of comparing the 
chicks when hatched, for if both hen and 
incubator chicks come out poorly it is like¬ 
ly that the parent stock is not in good 
condition. Pre-natal influences control 
much more than is usually considered. 
^ ou have a fine lot of chicks hatched out 
all the same size, all equally lively; can¬ 
not tell them apart the first week; the sec¬ 
ond week a few seem not quite so large 
as the rest; next week it is more marked¬ 
ly so; some do not feather out like the 
rest; at the end of six or eight weeks 
some of the chicks are twice as large as 
others in the same brood, and yet all have 
been under the same conditions as to 
housing, food, etc. I think the determin¬ 
ing causes of that difference were largely 
if not wholly in the egg when it was 
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