The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-03-17
WITH INCUBATOR
Hundreds of Chickens for
Honolulu Consumers.
Chickens that Never Knew their
MOther-Healthy Birds Raised
in Breeders.

The chicken-g growing industry in Ho-
nolulu is larger than is generally sup
posed, and the introduction of incu-
bators and brooders has been temp
tation TO men to embark in the bust
ness. More would invest their money
in incubators, but for the fact that in
conducting a chicken ranch, time and
patience is required. But the result JUS
titles it all. A chicken raised in a
brooder is fatter and better than
those grown Wild by Chinese ped
dlers, consequently, they bring better
price in the market. In the suburbs of
Honolulu, where the size of lots will
permit a good forage range, a number
of gentlemen have incubatorS and
breeders for the purpose of raising
are others who find pleasure and profit
in the business of raising chickens by
this artificial process for the market.
Henry Davis has at his Punahou
property a large part of his lot devot-
ed to the purpose of chicken raising.
ing 120 eggs, which he purchases from
the owners of the best stock in the
city. BY keeping the eggs at an even
temperature they are Matched in the
same time as by the natural way, and
as quickly as the little chicks make
their appearance they are transferred
to a brooder where they are kept un-
til they are strong enough to pick in
the sand and take care, that is, ordi-
nary care of themselves. In brooder
No. I yesterday, Mr.. Davis had 81 act
i've, healthy-looEing birds. BY the aid
of heat from a lamp placed directly be-
low sheetiron flooring the little ones
are kept as warm as if they were I'M
der mother hens wing. From this
place they are transferred to No. 2,
which consists of q house 10X10 with
run of the same dimensions attached
to it. The run is covered with loose
soil in which the chicks dust them
selves exactly as old chickens do.
During the first few weeks the chick
ems are fed regularly five times o day
on combination cereal food, chopped
beef and lettuce. When they grow so
large as to become dangerous to
smaller birds. they are put in brooder
No. 8 and kept until they are three
months old This is of the same in
every particular as No. 2 well venti-
lated, but kept warm enough at night
TO keep the birds from taking cold.
Their diet is almost the same as that
of the younger birds, and when they
are taken out at the end of three
months they are as fat as partrfdges.
From this time until they are killed
they have the freedom of a well-water-
ed lot 400x200 feet and notwithstand-
ing the great care given them, they
prove just as good foragers as birds
raised by the hen.
NIr. Davis says the percentage of fail
ures in brooder-raised chickens is very
small. If the temperature of brooder
No. 1 is kept right. there is little dan
ger of weak-legged chickens. In the
BAT young chickens in Mr.. Davis
brooders but three were to be found
whose legs were in any way affected,
and these he assured the reporter for
the Advertiser had been so since they
were Matched.
The same success in raising chick
ems is not met with in the case of tur
keys. Mr.. Davis has tried it, but not
more than so per cent of the turkey
eggs put in the incubator have
Matched.