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Value of Hatched Chicks
By Q. L. Wood.
(Special to Farm Magaxine.)
EXHIBITION season has arrived for
tho poultTyman. This and the
succeeding three months will
demonstrate the quality of fowl that
has been produced during the spring
and summer months. The poultry ex
hibits at tho early fairs so far have
brought out an average display with
a noticeable shortage of early birds.
Thore are a few breeders who con
tinue to carrv away most of the bine
ribbons at the early shows with Feb
ruary and March hatched chicks. Siie
is the one big factor that wins in the
fall, all other points being eompara
tivelv enual. The quality of these
earlv shows can be greatly improved
with tho bulk of the exhibitors laying
their plans in the winter for the full
size birds in tho the early fall. There
is so much disappointment, especially
among exhibitors with limited experi
ence, in showing birds a month or two
before they have reached full develop
ment. It is true that it requires in
many cases a latter chick to win at
the winter shows than the ones that
will pull down the blue in the fall.
The cockrels might go a little coarse,
and a pullet that has been laying two
or thmn months will not bo in as good
' Bhow condition as the one that is just
ready to lay bjer first egg. There
Should be some difference between the
time planned for development in the
larger and smaller breeds. The Leg
horns and other breeds in the Medi
terian class develop more rapidly than
the Wyandottes, Beds and Bocks, and
do not need to be gotten out quite
to early.
There is little to fear in Taking the
early hatched chick. The thought of
getting out a January or February
chick on the Coast while the rainy
season is still on and the winter seems
Still in full swing throws a horror into
the breeder who has never tried it.
The fear is unfounded, however. The
if raised in dry coops,
with a sheltered run, and allowed to
get out on the grass alter a mora,
old, at least a portion of the middle
day, will outdo the April and May
ehick in growth, vigor and vitality
nine times out of ten. Such chicks get
tErough the early stages practically
free from the ravages of body lice,
.;i noorlv all of the eerm diseases to
which poultry is subject, come in the
warmer months. Under favorable grow
ing conditions tho early chick is more
profitable from every standpoint. With
the exhibition value out of the ques
tion, the February broilers can be
sold while the market is at its best,
and the minimum chick loss in develop
ment in raising these broilers places
the average profit per hatched chick
as high as 50 per cent
The April hatched Wyandotte or iteo.
will make the best winter layer. These
will not have reached a sufficient de-
vnlnnmenl to have laid a few eggn
and moulted before the winter Beason
catches them. The early chick that
moults before December and tho late
nnA that does not lav before Decem
ber 1st, as a rule, will not pay their
keep in eggs during the winter, mis
roll np the profits for the breeder,
is the season when the layers help
and tho poultry business is not much
unliko any other business in the ro
spect that not one single item of
possible profit must be overlooked if
the business is to succeed.
mi, rmnt nnT hen DOT dav whore green
fnA ; TiTncnTahla. If clover, alfalfa
or similar green feed is not obtainable,
double the quantity ol sproutca oau.
The best way to sprout oats or othsr
grain is to soak foT 12 hours, drain in a
perforated box, sprinkle and stir night
and morning until they begin to sprout,
thon stop stirring and spread in a layer
an inch thick- At end of a fortnight
they will have formed a mat nearly
three iuches thick and have sprouts an
men lond. Youns chicks 6hould have
some of these sprouts rubbed off and
fed to thorn. Each nall-dozon laying
Wns should have about three square
inches of this mat, if also fed clover
or alfalfa.
WliatBVpr the feed, do not ncclcct
pure water. One hundred birds need
one ounce of salt cactt day.
Hatching Chicks
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POULTRY RAISEKB may iook ror
ward to lessening their dutios by
utilizing electricity as electrically
heated incubators and hovers are now
on the market. Where oil-heated chick,
en hatching apparatus had to be con
tinually inspected to see that the oil
supply had not become exhausted or
tho winarahis was not on fire, the
electrically heated devices may be left
unattended except to transfer the new
ly hatched chickens from the incuba
tors to the hovers.
The Electrical World describes an
electric incubator and hover. The case
is built of 2-inch cork boards rein
forced with steel corners. The top is
entirely covered with steel, and the
base on which the egg tray stands is
made of well-seasoned cypress eovered
with a thick felt pad. The egg tray
is of galvanized steel and has a re
movable wire mat on which the eggs
repose. A hole in the center allows
the chicks when hatehed to fall into
a wire basket hung on runners under
the egg tray. Air is filtered through
; b fnlt-nad base. A ventilat-
r,Vi BTtendinB throuen tne roui
and attached to tho cover leads down
th.rn.itli h hole in the ess tray into
ti. ...rorv i-hambcr. The amount of
air is varied by means oi a aiming
cap on the tube. j
Tb. front of the case is provided
with a small glass window to show
the interior and allow the tnermomeicr
to bo read. The beating units are
contained in the roof and slip into
spring clips, making them interchange,
able and removable. These units are
of the cartridge type and are so ar
ranged that the "heat is equally dis
tributed over all parts of tho ogg
tray. The supply of heat is auto
t:oii pnntTnlled bv means of a
thermostat. A signal lamp indicates
when tho heating circuit has been
opened.
The hover has a roof made of cork
board covered with sheet stoelj the
sides are closed by heavy douoie can-
. . . -il. I..., nf (15.
vas duck curtains wim v- -
inch felt in between and above tne
slits. An automatic heating system
simUar to that employed in the incu
bator is used, the beating coils being
placed just beneath the roof and en
closed with heavy wire screen. j
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Variety of Food
EXPERIENCED poultry raisers vary
in their preferences for tho food
they give and it will De gooa
practice for everyone not to stick to
any fixed ideas but cliango rations ao-i-nrdimrlv
as common sense may dictate.
Variety will be appreciated by birds as
well as by other animals, iry tne ioi
lowing for a change: Where wheat is
the most readily procured grain, this
mash is an unusually good one ior
growing Btock and layers: Ton parts
each of oats, boiled potatoes and skia
milk; 20 parts of alfalfa or clover,
five parts each of bran, cracked corn,
grounds oats and wheat middlings; two
parts meat Bcrap. This is 1:4.
Turnips ot mangels can be substi
tuted for potatoes, meat liquor may be
used in place of skim milk, meat scrap
may be lessened and oil substituted,
Teed sprouted oats, at the rate of
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