The Glenwood post., 1913-03-22

day and have never had any "germs
stuck to the she'll" The cause Of this
is that the germ, or embryo, being
lighter than the rest Of the egg floats
to the top, and if there long it sticks
to the shell and dies.
All unfertile eggs are tested out
about the tenth day and fed to hens.
The eggs are all turned carefully twice
daily from the second to the eighteenth
day. The egg trays are turned end
for end marnings, and side for side at
night, thus insuring a uniform quick
hatch. The length Of time to cool de-
pends largely on the temperature Of
room and kind Of incubator used.
With Slated bottom machines I be-
gin cooling eggs on the seventh day Of
incubation from three to five minutes
twice daily, when the time is gradu-
ally increased about one minute a day
to the eighteenth, with a room tenn
perature of As to go degrees, while with
a room temperature of 60 to 80 de-
grees the length of time for cooling
is about doubled.
The moisture problem I consider
even a more important item. Since
there are SO many hundred makes Of
incubators and located in every local
ity in the United States, it il impossi.
ble to give directions fer applying
moisture to the incubator in each indi.
vidual case for the climatic conditions
vary 50. If your incubator instruc-
tions have but one rule for both high
and low attitudes and you get poor
matches, I would advise writing the
manufacturer Of your machine for In.
formation, which he will freely give.
High attitudes usually need moro
moisture for Matching because Of the
greater dryness.
There are two charaeteristics Of n
good hatch. They arc, first, that mois-
ture collects on the inside Of the glass
door at Matching time, and, second,
the membrane surrounding the chick
is wet and can Be costly broken or
torn BY the chick wAea coming out Of
the she'll. If tie moisture On window
10 absent and the ms.sbraAs dry a.d
white, You may Be sure that moisture
is needed. I begin to apply moisture
the seventh day and keep IL up until
tn twentieth day BY sprinkiiag tie
incubator celia. floor daily, or, If this
should be imposible, pans Of water
are placed under the machine. II this
is found to be insufficient, . piece Of
burlap or = sponge 10 soaked In warm
wster and placed in the nursery
drawers or bottom Of machine sAd II
wettcd daily from the fifteenth to the
nineteenth day.
The door Of the incubator should not
be opened during hatching tine for
fear Of chilling the chicks.
Evaporation il . cooling process,
therefore, while the chicks are hatch
ing, the Thermometer should register
from 105 to 106 degrees, and as near
As possible to los degrees froa the
first to the twentieth day. I like "a
$50 the chicks begin to hatch qsite
lively BY the end Of tie twentieth day,
because it gives ~ The best chicks. II
they hatch nacA before OF after this
when run at 1os degrees it probably il
due to faulty thermometer; II -, sl
accurate one should replace It, q, il
the chicks hatch too soon, the thsr.
mometer should read less than l03 de-
grees, and if the hatch is late have il
read shove 103 degrees. When the
chicks are al hatched and dry, IL
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and the incubator run slightly lower
when At the end Of twenty four hours
time they are removed 70 the breodss
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