February 16, 
136 
TIIH RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A POULTRY CROSS. 
I purchased nine Brahma hens and a 
"White I>eghorn cock, intending to raise early 
broilers. What do you think of this cross? 
How would the straight White Wyandotte 
do? Are the pin feathers the only objec¬ 
tion the Barred Plymouth Itock? I am 
afraid I got my chickens too late and they 
will not lay or sit in time to get May or 
June 1 broilers. What kind of eggs would 
you get to set for broilers, supposing I can 
get some setting hens? What about a cross 
between a White Wyandotte cock and bens 
of the Leghorn and Brahma cross, mostly 
Leghorn? What would make the best cock 
to cross with my Brahma hens for roasters? 
Would any other stock than Brahmas make 
better roasters? w. j. t. 
Pennsylvania. 
1 do not know this cross, and while I 
am far from advocating any cross at all, 
I know that White Leghorn cocks cro'ssed 
on White Wyandotte hens give a chick 
that makes a fine broiler and good early 
layer, a very satisfactory fowl. But don’t 
follow up your cross; in other words, 
make the same mating each year instead 
of breeding from these crossbred birds. 
The pin feathers are the only objections 
to the Barred Rocks for broilers, but if 
you have many birds to dress for a fancy 
trade you will find it a great objection. 
In buying eggs to raise broilers from I 
would prefer a cross containing some 
Leghorn blood on account of its early 
maturity and hardiness. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
SENSIBLE TALK ON BROODING 
CHICKS. 
O. W. Mapes, in his article on page 57, 
on the mortality of young chickens, from 
my experience placed too many chickens 
in one brooder; he speaks of placing a 
hundred or a little more in each brooder. 
With me every time I put more than 50 
in a brooder I have trouble, and while 
the brooder manufacturers tell of one 
hundred chick capacity, 50 is all that 
should be put in one lot. I have had 65 
to 75 come from 10 dozen eggs placed in 
the incubator, and when I have made an 
even division of such a lot and put them 
in hoo brooders there has been but little 
loss, but every time I have placed the en¬ 
tire number in one brooder I have lost 
the number in excess of 50, and mostly 
from that “white diarrhoea” of which Mr. 
Mapes speaks. When the lot was down 
to 50 or about that number then there 
were no more deaths. 
After dark it is the safest way to visit 
each brooder and separate the chicks. 
They will huddle together in one end 
nearest the lamp in spite of all one can 
do to prevent it, and after dark when 
they are quiet for the night, put your 
hand into the bunch and move all around 
and about the hover. They will settle 
down where placed and go to sleep, while 
if still daylight will run out of the hover 
and then when they go back bunch up 
again. This getting into one group heats 
them up too much; the weak ones are 
crov/ded down by the stronger and smoth¬ 
ered. I find that if not looked after as 
I state the white diarrhoea soon shows, 
and I begin to lose some every night. 
I have bedded chickens in sand and 
sand and cut clover and other ways, but 
my best results arc where I use sand only 
for bedding, which must be thoroughly 
dry. I also see that there is plenty of 
chick feed in the sand for the chicks to 
scratch for, using only chick feed from 
the start, adding beef scraps after a week; 
then the next grade of larger feed in 
10 days. I try to keep the chicks growing 
all the time. Bedding with cut clover in 
a day or two it begins to mold; then there 
is trouble with the chicks, while dry sand 
absorbs any moisture from the droppings, 
and each day the sand is worked over and 
made smooth. The chicks have a way of 
getting the bedding material of any kind 
all piled up under the hover, and this 
should be dragged out each day and 
evened all over the nursery floor. Last 
Spring I fed cut green clover and lawn 
mower grass to the chicks in a brooder 
when I did not want them to get out 
because the weather was rainy and very 
damp for a number of days. Being 
pressed for time, I did not look under the 
hover for several days, and when I 
noticed the white pasty backs of several 
chicks I opened up the hover and found 
a lot of this green cut stuff bunched un¬ 
der the cover, and turned moldy and 
sour. There was the trouble, and when 
cleaned out and fresh dry sand put in the 
sickness disappeared. 
If Mr. Mapes will bed with dry sand, 
put only 50 chicks in one brooder, and use 
chick food, I think he will not have to 
take 30 to 50 dead chicks out each morn¬ 
ing. It will oblige him to double the 
number of brooders he has in use, but if 
there are a hundred chicks put in a 
brooder and the number is reduced by 
death to 50 is it not best to put that larger 
amount in two brooders and save nearly 
all of them? As soon as the first two 
weeks are passed and have held the chicks 
in good shape, I begin to feel easier, and 
after three weeks am sure of raising them 
all. Then they have food all the time with 
them and fresh-cut bone is added in mod¬ 
erate quantity to the daily ration; that is, 
what they will eat clean. 
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million.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. 
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