The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-05-07

When twinlets arrive. ORDER cradle
for two, When It's triplets. with an
air Of becom,ag importance, order a ~
for three But when It's ohicklets you
generally order chick Md cradle for
100 or one 10 III the incubator capao.
ity. II is then the chicken furniture
man often violates his guarantee and
sends a cradle that is too small for
those bouncing baby boys and girls,
and there come sad days 10 chick baby.
dom The undertaken gets busy. You
become parents TO 100 chicklets. You
cuddle them TO sleep In q brooder era.
die that should rock only seventy.hyc.
The next morning twenty-five lie out
side the cradle in the cold The sew.
enty-fve left In the capacity OF the
cradle and you should lose % per cent
naturally, but they have been weak
ened by overcrowding, overheating and
bad air. and in few days most Of
your chicklets viii deccase. You are
ready 10 hang the murderer Of your
pretty 1uffy birds, but take the lesson
that all must learn--neyer crowd chicks
under hens or hovers.
We gave a hen forty peeps, She
raised thirty-nine, Gave her the same
number the second season. She raised
six. Tell us why. "Womsn's contrari-
nessT No. Too much family. First
season was warm and dry; second sea.
son, cold and wet. The old hens heart
was big enough, but her white wings
and warm breast and big fiuff couldn't
cradle them all.
Chicks need air under hover. Room
needed. They develop rapidly. More
room still. FIJI the cradle at the start; |
In week It is one and quarter full
and the next week worse. You may be
able to carry that much. but chick
cradle can't II you're bound to hatch
more than your cradle capacity, let
your wife bring the surplus up on the
bottle. The next spring she will glad
ly give you all her Easter hat money |
for more breeders and sympathize
more when you brood.
A brooder run IN brooder house |
uses less oil, and chicks generate heat.
Keep thermometer In your house and
watch the one on your hover, but be
sure they are true. We taper down
the heat In the incubator nursery to
80 degrees. After thirty hours we re-
move them to the hover. The first
week breeders should be run from IS
to 105 degrees, or according to the
height OF the hover and the position
Of the thermometer. After that taper
down. Follow the brooder rules unless
you find them impractical, and use
your own think. Watch the thermome-
ter, but watch the chicks. II they pile
in a heap, not sufficient warmth. IL
they stand up with their mouths open,
too hot If they buddle outside In
corner the hover Is too hot or not
warm enough to be inviting. IL they
lie down like lambs with their bright
eyes peeping out from beneath the
hover, It's about perfect IL they are
lively as crickets at the dawn, you are
master, but II dumpy and not ready
for breakfast the ventilation is not
right, there Is SCOT under the hover or
they had too much supper or got
chilled
Important Pointer.-Put a ten-day.
old louseless chick In with the new
hatch and he will adopt them, teach
them TO eat and drink and put them to
bed. High, round, drumless hovers. with
lamp box and chimney outside the
brooder, are best. Hot water brooders
are hot water breeders. II lamp goes
out easily and often or continually
smokes, discard machine.
Ventilate the brooder according to
rules, but use your own think. Keep
the smoke vents open. Breeders with
lamp underneath sometimes have hot
floors. Prevent with thick layer OF
dry loamy sand. Use this until chicks
know what not to eat; then run dry
wheat straw through the clover cut
ter for bedding and scratch floor. But :
DO sure sand and straw bedding are
warm and dry. Set in box OF moist
earth for playground to relieve dry
ness Of shanks and feet that comes !
from brooder heat. When chicks pa
rade to sun parlor. change water vessel
to keep cool. II SCOT leaks up into
hover, turn brooder over on side. brush
,fY and cover joints with stove cement
Keeping chicks on board scratching
floor for two weeks win prevent gapes.
We have scratching playground for !
thousand. They are all white. When q
hey tumble into that wonderful
scratching stunt for their breakfast
hey are the prettiest and liveliest
,ox,inu ,,inft,ra avar I