The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-09-08
HATcHING WEATHER.
The Worst Possible Day Is the "NTug-
gY''-Mr. CnmpbeII's Experiment..

The Worst Possible Day Is the "Mug-
gy'-Mr. Cnmpbe1Is Experiment.
]. L. Campbell says in Artificial
Matching and Brooding" THE worst
possible day to get out a good hatch Is
very hot one, because the chicks
smother SO easily at such a time, so
that the smallest possible amount Of
moisture that will answer should be
used on hot day. prefer above any
other kind of weather a cool, pleasant
day, especially If a nice breeze is blow
ing On such a day as that chicks seem
to be and are much stronger than on a
hot day. The worst of all days is one
that is called in common parlance
'muggy'-that is, a hot day with air
saturated with moisture. Chicks will
die (smother) on such a day as that
without the slightest provocation that
you can see. When / have a hatch
coming off on such day or night,
stay with them. When the day Is cool
and pleasant, they can hoe their own
row pretty much as they like, and they
will get out all right, but the all i'm
portant thing is to keep the heat just
right and supply enough air so they
will not pant any before they get per-
fectly dry"
Mr.. Campbell also gives an interest
ing account of the difference between
hot and cold weather heat. He says:
"There is one very curious point about
temperature which has caused me a
great amount of study, and even yet
/ am not absolutely sure that l have
reached the proper solution of this
problem. 1t would naturally be sup
posed that it was easier to overhead
eggs on a hot day than cold one, and
so it is, but the rather curious fact
remains that sometimes on a hot day
chicks will stand heat which would
kill every chick on cold day, and it
appears to do them no harm whatever.
have experimental a good bit along
that line, and l am not satisfied that !
know all want to know about it yet.
A case in point will illustrate what
mean. The lamp on one of my incu-
bators was accidentally left in such
shape that the regulator could not
shut 1t off. The day was very hot,
and only very small flame was burn
ing at best, but the heat went to 112
and must have been that high for at
least two hours, quite long enough to
heat the chicks to that point, This
was the eighteenth day of incubation,
and l decided that the chicks were
done for, as they appeared to be dead
on examination. The temperature of
the room was 90 at that time. SO l
opened the incubator and left them for
several hours, and 1873 chicks Matched
out of lat eggs, and these chicks are
nearly all alive and doing we'll at near
ly 2 months old 1 have purposely
heated incubators to 112 on cold day,
with the result of killing nearly every
chick inside of one hour, l think the
difference lies In the fact that on a
cold day the extra heat is all incubator
heat, while on a hot Gay a good part
of it is animal heat, or, in other words,
the same amount of incubator heat APP
piled on the hot day that is applied on
the cold day would run 1t up perhaps
100, and the chicks would all be dead
before they became that hot The So
luton, 1 think, is somewhat like the
that person who is acclimated
can stand a heat which would kill a
person who is not"