The Delta independent., 1911-04-21
POULTRY NOTES.
(Field and Farm.)

| The Chinese geese are easier
to raise as they are more hardy
than the larger breeds. They lay
greater number of eggs and are not
as great feeders as are the larger
breeds. When properly fattened
they are of much better size for the
table than the big ones. When cross
ed with common geese they produce
results that cannot be equaled In
any other line of breeding.
While modern chicken machin-
cry surpasses the hen in quantity
of production. Biddy is still going
ahead in Matching beautiful. liv-
able, vigorous chicks and the
many claptrap ipcubators and
brooders, many of them made to
catch bargain buyers with their
faulty ventilation and regulation,
are responsible for millions of
chicks dead in the shell and great
mortality after Matching. Diar-
rhoea, the dead scourge of artifi-
cially Matched chicks, is caused
by faulty machinery and is seldom
seen when they are hatched under
hens.
The best thing for preserving
eggs is a watergiass solution,
pale yellow, syrupy, odorless IL
quld. 1t may be obtained from
most druggists at from sixty to
himeIy cenIs a gallon. For use
scr one part of the waterglass by
measure into eleven parts OF boil
"a Nater, either hot or cold. If
mixed hot allow the water to cool
before rsing. Only absolutely fresh,
clean, unwashed sound eggs with
smooth. firm shells are suitable for
preserving. Infertile eggs keep
better than the fertile ones. Dirty
stale, cracked, or thin-shelled eggs
are likely to spoil the good eggs.
Squads are scarce on the Den
yer market these days for the
fad has about run its course. The
I demand is such that a substitute.
or something better had to be
invented which has been accomplish
ed by serving young chickens, six
weeks old, which are meeting
with much favor as a substitute for
squads. They are declared in some
respects superior, although the aver
age consumer cannot tell the differ
ence AS squads came into vogue
because of the scarcity of quail. so
baby chickens have come forward
to supply the scarcity of squads and
We suppose the best breed for this
purpose is the Brown Leghorn.
u
more skill and creaful handling
than incubation. The great mis-
take most people make is putting
too many chicks in one brooder
The result of this is crowding
and if none are trampled to death
they sweat, colds follow and the
chicks are never healthy. An
other common error is overhead
ing the brooder. IL a person uses
the hot-water system of heating
using a coal fire. the air is always
better than when a lamp is used.
! The brooder house can be anywhere
from 10 to 100 feet long and the
modern idea calls for side heat
rather than that from the bottom.
During the first week the tenn
perature of the incubator should
run at about 102 degrees Fahr.,
then the animal heat in the eggs
will naturally raise little, but
at no time should it be higher
than l03 degrees. From 1O2 L 10
l03A degrees is the best heat tenn
perature. After all the pipped
eggs are hatched remove the tray
turn down the lamp, and leave the
chicks in the incubator for awhile.
They may be left there without
food or water until the close of
the 22nd or 23rd day. Nature mas
provided them with enough food 70
last three days so they Will not
suffer and will be stronger. oet-
ter chicks IL not fed too soon.