Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1883-05-31

Chickens will be comfortable with this ar
rahsement in even severe winter veal her
II the sash are covered at night hy shuttars
or mats. There should be small door TO
each division, leading out into sheltered.
sunny enclosure. where chickens NAV RIM
out IN the middle OF mild days, after they
are couple OF weeks old. The only pre-
caution necessary to be observed in usinu
socf not bed, is to be sure to raise the
sash when the sun shines hot in the middle
OF Athe day, and even in winter it can easily
get not enough to either kill or cripple the
chicks.
III chickens are to be reared on q large
scale, a greenhouse is undoubtedly the
cheapest plan OF doing it. In my expert
ment on large scale tried to heat a tiftv
leet mouse with morning glory stove, into
which had put long coil of pipe. That
heated the fifty feet of pipe satisfactorily for
movers, but it did not make the house warm
enough. 1t cost me about as much to get
the stove fixed up as some forms OF green
heuse heaters would have cost. i estimate
that with good heater house suitable for
the purpose can be built for So per foot. If
heated with a horizontal f1ue [ suppose If
would cost about halt as mucb but the run.
ming expenses would be greater. In that
KIND OF house the flues would be the best of
movers. The fues could be made no loneer
than hfty feet. and they would take care OF
about fifteen chichens to the foot. The
heuse heated with hot water pipes could he
four feet in diameter and should have q
BOARD covering on top, and a cloth stretched
across the under side and hanging down as
a curtain to the fiour.
About the first thing the young chick has
IN appetite tor is gravel; and some should
'e provided with its first meal which should
'e given when it is about twenty-four hours
10. Dry oat meal, think because it looks
Ike gravel, will be eaten before any chicken
ustard or any kind of soft foed; neverthe-
ess it is desirable, especially in cold wealth
+, TO get some kind of animal food into the
rop OF the young chick as early as possible,
me best food of this kind will be the unfer-
lie eggs, taken out of the machine as early
they can be detected.
one OF the best egg testers can easily be
lade by any one, by mailing together four 9
lort ends of a board, about nine inches Il
ng by six inches wide into square tube I
pen at both ends. Set this over low lamp Il
id cut hole about as large as an egg il, q
le SIDE, opposite the flame. Hold the eggs y
70 this hole IN dark room and look Il
rough them. On the fourth or fifth day Y
irregular dark spot will appear on one q
1e OF the fertile eggs, which will get larger
y oy day obliquely across the egg, send u
out veins which can be seen plainly un- cl
they fill up all of the egg, but the air yes CT
at the larger end. All eggs that do not q
oW this appearance are uhfertile, may be 10
zen out and boiled and mixed with bread W
lmbs or ground corn and oats for chicken W
"a. AS soon as the chicks are large 81.
ough-say three weeks old-they should p
changed to diet OF cracked corn, which r.
ould be considered the standard food for
IN, and when they are used TO it they will =
I'VE on It without any change. Besides
ing little animal food daily, they need 49,
some green tord-lettuce, or a sod of
der grass or cabbage leaves cut up fine. !.
ey should be fed little at time but often, -
ey should Lave plenty of clean water to -
nix. A good way to furnish it is between, -
saucers-ons placed within the other. -
Yhen all their necessities are thus proyid-
tor, chickens can be raised until they are =.
enough for broiers, closely crowded to ~, ~
her; and if care is taken TO keep every ..o po'
e neat and clean, without danger OF b.. b.,
es or cholera. and with better success ~.
n if allowed to roam with hens.-Poultyv 1"'
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