The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-29

The Care OF Eggs.
A good many failures, both In ar
, tificial as we'll as in natural incuba
ton. is directly to be attributed tC
the neglect of the proper care giver
10 the eggs reserved for the use Of
Matching purposes, and as failures al
this time are of very serious consider
alton to most every breeder, who Il
failure attends his hatch is put back
for several weeks in his operations
and that may mean late hatched
chicks, which in turn means late laid
eggs. and this again means a loss OF
money, as late eggs do net bring
the prices in the market that the ear
ly winter eggs do
And where eggs are SHIPPED away
from home to be Matched by others,
and an extra price has been paid for
the eggs. it is easy TO see that 1t be-
comes of paramount Importance that
the eggs have received all the care
necessary before they are placed in
the incubator, under the hen, or Ship
ped away for Matching purposes.
All eggs that are laid early in the
season should be collected frequently
during the day; in fact they never
ought remain in the nest until they
grow cold to the touch; we have
again and again left eggs for the. pur-
pose of experimenting and we have
never Matched a single chick from
chilled egg.
The egg would seem to start incu-
batting all right, and the germ would
seem to be active, but only to prove
a failure on the next examination, as
the chilling seems to rupture the
This shows the importance of keep
ing eggs after they are collected in
a place where frost cannot touch
them, and where the temperature will
be as steady as possible, cellar in
which the temperature does not fallJ
below sixty is a good place, but eel
lars of that kind are rather rareties
and so put them anywhere where the
will not fall below sixty. !
| don't like to keep eggs for hatch |
ing in a place where the temperature !
'alls lower than that, though have |
seen it stated that forty will be all /
light, but don't practice it, as it is
lot natures way of doing things, and
he nearer we keep to natures laws
he more confident we may be OF sue
.ess.
Again, the turning of the eggs day
" day until they are to be incubated
las been recommended by almost ev-
nv writer for years, yet there were
ONE who could not see the reason
or this practice, and though it was
act that the hen would turn the egg
fter she started to incubate them,
n dturn them frequently yet obser-
alton went to show that at the time
{ laying her eggs, even when the
est was pretty well filled, she made
O attempt to turn the eggs, except
a way that may be called accident
Il, when placing herself on the nest.
Now, if we remember right, the
rst authority that came out against
he practice was Mr. Charles CIPHER
his splendid little book on "Artifi-
al Incubation" and we then began f;
number of experiments that ended ;
/ the non-turning of any more eggs
efore incubation, and it is a good !
any years since then now, and if I
lything, we have increased the per- 4
,ntage of chickens Matched.
The less the eggs are disturbed the
etter for the contents Of the egg,
Id SO simply Weave the turning of
e eggs till you get ready to- place
EN- in the incubator.
Again, it has always been advised .
place eggs for keeping on the small .
pointed end of the egg, or at least :