Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-14

pip. A little piece of copperas,
about the size of the end of your
thumb in one gallon OF drinking
water will remove the worms. A
good condition power will do like
wise. If you will stop feeding the
bran and keep your little chickens
warm it will relieve the bowel
trouble. The temperature when
chickens are Matching should be
1O3 to los. The way to put Paris
green. on potatoes is to mix Ia
pump. You do mot give water
OF water and put ON with spray
pump. You do not give water to
too soon to your little chickens.
They should have it right away.
1t takes hen twenty-ohe days to
hatch.
Tioga, CAL have some chick \
ems about two weeks old. and l
have lost about fifteen out of the
hundred in the last eight days. 1
keep them in the dry, furnish then,
plenty of fresh water and grit and
feed them mostly on corn bread.
They get to looking droopy ana
die in a few hours. Every one
that has got sick so far has diec.
What do you think the trouble isT
What can do for them?
Any information you can give
me will be greatly apprecia ted
Yours truly,
CHAS. T.. sIAdMoNS.
ANSWER.
If you will read the three articles
in the Journal, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday in reference to little
oh
ton from these that will help you
to raise your little chickens here
after. Your letter is like many
others that come to me from people
who feed on corn-bread. One should
be very careful with their little
chickens as there is no cure for
them after they once get sick, they
usually die.
Read the three articles carefully
and if you will follow them you can
raise a large per cent of your lit
tie chicks.
Abbeville, CAL have duck eggs
in incubator, should hatch May I.
Shall l use any moisture? If so. when
and how? The manufacturer of the
machine says he has no set rules
for applied moisture Usually his ma
chine gets all the moisture needed
from the atmosphere. When must I
stop turning ands airing the eggs?
Thre days before Matching as in chick
ems? DO duck eggs hatch as well in
incubator as chicken eggs? VIII
ducks lay as we'll without a drake as
with one? w. A. CHERRY.
ANSWER.
If the instructions that come with
your machine tell you not to use mois-
ture. do not do So My experience
with duck eggs has been that it is
best to take a small paint brush and
gently pass it over the eggs after it
has been pipped in tepid warm water
every other day after the 18th day.
You can stop turning them on the
oath day. Usually duck eggs hatch
just as we'll in an incubator as hen
eggs do but require about one de-
gree higher temperature. Ducks will
lay just as well without a drake as
they Will with one.
I set two hens the same day. had
the nest made out Of the same kind OF
straw. set them in a large box with
a partition betwene them and door
in front of the box. 1 let them out
at the same time for feed and water,
Set them on 10 eggs each.
1 took them off today. One Matched
10 out of the Is eggs. the other Matched
only I out of the Is eggs. l want to
say that these eggs were all fresh
laid by the same hens and we're not
over three days old when set. I no.
ticed that the one that Matched only
had dead chickens in the other
eggs. Five Of them had pipped. but
died before they got out of the shell.
If you will give me some informa-
ton on the above question l will APP
preciate it very much. I have been
trying to follow your advice for the
past ~ months.
Yours truly
4. BASS