Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-05-14

herewith are worth while knowing some
Thing about.
Many poultry raisers condemn tho
breeder from whom they purchase
Matching eggs or. perhaps. daY-old
chicks, because of the fact that when
reaching maturity the fowls do not at
tain standard size or are below normal
weight and that of the parent stock
In many cases eggs or chicks from tho
Ytock of high-grade breeders purchased
at good prices seem but COMMONPLACE.
and this is due very largely to the fact
mat they were not properly grown, al
though seldom will beginners or even
those who are experienced, admit that
they have neglected anything in the
proper growing Of the chick
Even among moro experienced poultry
raisers every now and then circumstances
arise over which they had or had not con-
troll, which cause sethacks In the growing
of chicks. They can be due to many
causes The battle of successfully rear
ing chicks is not over after they have
passed the Today period in winter but
care and good management must be CON
tinued from then until the chicks are
fully matured and beyond.
The chicks Matched should be from
good strong parents. properly incubated
and brooded. for if any neglect has oc-
CURED in the breeding pen. or the eggs
have not been properly incubated or
brooded then no amount of care or man
a ~ rhoI
Faulty breeding means fowls that are
not vigorous Feed the hens a proper
ration that Is best adapted to the pro-
ducinE Of a normal mot forced output
of fertile eggs.
The eggs as gathered should be prop
crly kept in a tempera ture of from a to
90 degrees and kept in a place free from
strong draughts. Proper incubation
means the maintenance Of an even EN-
perature in the machine Of 1Oaia to 1o3
degrees, the fun 81 days: the nroviding
of the proper amount of moisture and
fresh air the proper and careful turning
Of the eggs and allowing the right amount
Of cooling.
TEMPERATURE MUST BE REGULAR.
Any incubator run one day at 90 de-
grees, the next day at 1O4 or 105 degrees,
will hatch the chicks, but it will not pro-
duce the even hatch or will not hatch all
the chicks healthy and strong.
Then comes the hrooding. If the chicks
are not put in brooder so constructed
that it can maintain a heat of 100 to
o. degrees during the first 10 days. chill
cd chicks are the result Or the brood
or may he SO constructed as not to give
the proper amount of fresh air. Again,
the brooder may be good one, and the
operator may be to blame in running it
improperly. While great improvements
have been made in incubator and brooder
construction within the past few years
the apparatus is not yet sef-regulating
and cannot run for any considera Bile
length of time without the use of brains
behind it. Consequently, the breeder OF
high-grade Matching eggs or day-old
chicks very often get the blame for
faults that should he laid to the pur-
chaser Of the eggs or chicks instead of
the breeder
DON'T CROWD BROODERS.
The results obtained by poultry keep
eri are often wonderful. considering
the abuse tho eggs or chicks have been
subjected to. In the smaller hovers the
usuai number of chicks should never be
more tLan 80, but, as a rule, the begin
ner crowds in double that number, and
while this may be all right for the first
10 days when the chicks are small and
are not consuming so much fresh air
after that period they grow very rapidly
and overcrowd their quarters.
,i,,l,f a., 40,
get the proper amount of fresh air; Sec
ond, they have not the proper amount OF
floor space and, while they have made a
good growth up to days or two weeks
from that time on they drag along
many falling by the wayside. The poul-
try raiser should always remember and
this holds good i'm all livestock or plant
life, that every time the growth is check
ed, it takes that much longer for it tC
mature, and number 90 these chicks
due to mismanasomont-wil never at
tain their fun size.
This means, I'm the case Of broilers. a
delay of several weeks in getting them
10 a marketable size; it means from six
weeks to perhaps month or more for
the first egg, which if many fowls are
kept. amounts to a considerable loss II
means undcrweight in the showroom
and any lach OF proper growth means
the lack OF perfect shape in the breed
Many beginner who purchased the
eggs or chicks of some noted breeder who
has won a. New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia or Baltimore, could produce just
as good specimens as the breeder who
sold him the eggs if he knew how to
raise them.
In other words it is all in the proper
growing of stock and while the begin
ner can, he seldom does grow stock in the
way 1t should be grown, Poultry raisers
hate to think that the poultry have lice
but in the majority of cases whore trou-
BILE appears in the growing flock, it can