W* RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
799 
Counting Your Chickens After Hatching 
I would like to see a discussion on 
hatching results. This year I set two 
incubators on March 12, receiving 3S per 
cent and 35 per cent hatch of total eggs 
set. On March 18 I set two more incu¬ 
bators, receiving 31 per cent and 34 per 
cent hatch of total eggs set. These are 
all 390-egg incubators. I sold eggs to a 
friend of mine to fill two of the same size 
machines, 390-egg, and he received 32 
and 27 per cent. Out of mine I took out 
20, 20, 11 and 12 infertile eggs ; 72, 74, 
92 and 90 dead germs. These figures are 
according in order to the 38, 35, 31 and 
34 per cent hatches. 
The breeding hens were well culled by 
me and by a poultry specialist last Fall. 
They went through the Winter well, be¬ 
ing in good flesh, fat in the Spring. I 
used lights on them two weeks before 
saving eggs ; fed Cornell rations, and they 
had about one square inch of sprouted 
oats per bird. Cockerels and cocks were 
active. Last year I had same hatching 
results without lights. They were housed 
in a 20x40 Cornell style house. 
Now, my friend said I did all that was 
possible to get good hatching eggs, took 
proper care that they did not get chilled, 
getting the eggs three times a day, and 
taking care of them in the house, and 
his and my incubators were good. 
Why the low percentage of hatch? 
Mow is it possible for some people to 
sell chicks at such low prices as 10 cents 
each ? 
How is it possible for some to advertise 
eight to 10-weeks old pullets by the thou¬ 
sands? Is it possible they can count the 
chicks before they are hatched? They 
claim it takes about five eggs to hatch 
one pullet, so realize the number of eggs 
to be set to hatch 1.000 pullets. 
Now my friend claims there must be 
something not right with my eggs, or 
stock, because when people can advertise 
so many chicks for sale and at the prices 
some do. they must hatch a larger per¬ 
centage than we did, or they could not 
sell the chicks so cheap. Today a friend 
came and said : “Can you give me some 
chicks to put with mine?” I said, “What 
is the matter; did you have a poor 
hatch?” He said he only got 50 per 
cent. I asked what he called a good 
batch ; he said 60 per cent. I believe he 
got a poor hatch and did not want to own 
up to it, so I would like to see people 
come oqt with the real true figures, as I 
hqye given, as I believe folks stretch 
things too much. According to some 
poultry papers, larger hatches are plenti¬ 
ful, and in my own actual experience they 
are scarce. Let’s have it out. 
E. P. ETISNER. 
It. N.-Y.— “Let’s have it out.” Many 
of us have carried a sore tooth too long, 
and we know how it feels to get rid of it. 
There are plenty of hen men who do 
much counting of chickens before they 
are hatched, and sometimes put on double 
spectacle, when they count. Can we not 
ha,ve exact figures, showing just what the 
“hatch” is? It may surprise some of our 
people. 
Feeding Chicks 
How big a brooder room is necessary 
for 1.000 chicks, and how many brooders 
are required? What kind of feed would 
you recommend for these chicks? I am 
not interested in eggs, but would like to 
have them get fat. F. G. 
Pennsylvania. 
Such a number as 1,000 chicks should 
he divided into at least two flocks; three 
would be much better. A brooder stove 
should be used for each flock, and a 
brooder house, or room in a large house, 
at least 8x12 ft. in size, would be needed 
for each stove. There is no fixed amount 
of room required; the more the better. 
Chickens soon outgrow limited quarters. 
Little chicks are not fed for eggs or for 
fattening; they are fed to give them well 
developed, strong frames and capacity for 
using either fattening or laying rations 
later. Feed the chicks upon the foods so 
often mentioned in these columns, hard 
cracked grains, such as finely cracked 
corn, cracked wheat and pinhead oatmeal 
or rolled oats, with a mash made from 
wheat bran, middlings, cornmeal, ground 
oats and beef scrap, or else feed one of 
the good proprietary mixed foods. In 
addition to these, feed green stuff of some 
kind, lettuce, sprouted oats, clover leaves, 
or any other tender green stuff that the 
chicks will eat. Give sour milk or butter¬ 
milk also, and, if you want to be not only 
right up to date, but forging a bit ahead, 
feed cod liver oil, two teaspoons daily for 
each 100 chicks during the first week, 
three the second, and third weeks, and 
four the fourth, continuing the latter 
amount up to the eighth week. This is 
best given mixed in a moist mash and so 
distributed that each chick will get its 
share. m. b. d. 
Chicks Do Not Eat 
What can I do with baby chicks that 
will not eat, and what is the reason? Is 
there any way I can induce them to eat 
scratch ? Are Epsom salts good for those 
that suffer from a whitish discharge, 
probably white diarrhoea? Is hayseed a 
good litter for baby chicks, or does your 
experience show that it causes a crop- 
bound condition? When chicks are fed 
in the morning before they consume very 
much food their crops are full. Is this 
condition crop-bound or just natural? 
A. A. H. 
I do not know what to do for baby 
chicks that will not eat, but I never saw 
any healthy ones that would not. If your 
chicks refuse to eat scratch grains, they 
are probably being overfed upon some¬ 
thing else; possibly they may be getting 
enough weed seeds, etc., from the litter 
to fill their crops. I have never had any 
trouble from using the chaff from hay 
mows for litter. I strongly suspect that 
you are overfeeding your chicks, though 
full crops are not necessarily any evi¬ 
dence of this; they fill easily. It may be 
that the chicks scatter the grain that you 
feed in the litter and fill up on it without 
your knowledge; you do not say how 
you feed it. At any rate, cut down on 
the amount that you are feeding until the 
chicks are hungry and want to eat. Un¬ 
less they are sick, that won’t be long. 
Epsom salts will not cure white diar¬ 
rhoea. True bacillary white diarrhoea is a 
germ disease for which no satisfactory 
cure has been found ; whitish discharges, 
often called white diarrhoea, are usually 
due to over or improper feeding, chilling 
or unhealthful conditions of some kind. 
The natural suspicion arising from read¬ 
ing your letter is that you are overfeed¬ 
ing upon some one or more kinds of food 
and that your troubles arise from that. 
Chicks need but little at a time, and that 
little often. m. b. d. 
“Well, how did you enjoy your visit 
to the dentist’s?” “I was bored to tears.” 
—Boston Transcript. 
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