Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1914-06-13
THE FARM POULTRY
Timely Little Talks on Practical and
Timely Matters.

should be changed frequently for
cleanliness sake, but oftener if each
morning you find chick or two
dead under her. These quite likely
died of disease that others may take
To save the brooder floor, some
place paper under the chaff, some an
old square cloth, others old oilcloth.
The chicks pick the paper to pieces
and often swallow it the cloth they
tear and roll up but the oilcloth they
let alone. 1t saves much scrubbing
OF the floor by having several pieces
OF it.
Chicks will not suffer from lately
scrubbed floor if there be plenty of
chaff over it. In fact, after few
days the floor, which soon dries, is
good for their feet, and after week
old it is safest to let them some of the
time run out on cool damp floor.
From 2 to 4 weeks old is when the
brooder -lameness often gets them, but
it never does if they can take occa-
sional trips over damp ground or
floor.
TO give young ducks or goslings
extremely cold water to drink has
been known to throw them into fits,
and these usually result in death, es-
pecially for the ducks. Give them wa
ter that has been warmed by the sun
or on the stove. Each require drink
ing water from the first, though not
food SO soon. A chick can live very
well without water until it is or !
days old, and turkeys can do without
drinking as long, if not longer.
The out of door brooders are not
a clear success when set out very
early to the influence of frost and
sweep of wind, unless set in sheltered
places. While they are shut up they
are all right, but they are usually too
small to keep growing chicks con
fined in long at time, and If the door
is opened let them out into an out
door Enclosure. the heat is lowered IN
the brooder. The better plan during
bad weather is to place them in shed
or room somewhere. After all. they
are the most satisfactory of all brood
ers The freless may raise strong
chicks, but only on a small scale for
each brooder, as large numbers put
in these will inevitably pile up and
crowd, smothering several each
night. In a brooder they seldom
bunch up to do any harm unless you
have the glass doors uncovered Be
fore these. il you do not get out early
to them, they crowd and climb. often
killing the strongest of their number
by standing on them and refusing to
get off The better plan is to cover
the glass at night, especially if it be
a glass in the top lid.
white diarrhea catches my brood
er chicks more than it does my hen
Matched" is the common complaint
The one who makes the complaint
usually attributes the cause OF death
and weakness to something the incu-
bator does to the chicken. The truth
is. il the incubator be a good one. and
climatic conditions or surroundings
all right, the incubator is not to blame
and If the chicks go into the brooder
weak and some afflicted with the
white diarrhea, either yourself or the
hens are at fault-maybe both. Tor
have found that If this disease is pres
ent in the incubator hatched it is pres
ent in the hen-hatched If you found
the genuine disease in your incubator
Matched and brooder-kept. then you
were at fault that you did not, before
again refilling the incubator. clear 1t
of any germs left by the late deceased
in it.
Unless you have badly afflicted
lot of hens there must really be but
few chicks that go into the brooder
afflicted, and if the whole flock put
in die with it, then il is your own
fault, not the brooders. AS well leave
one baby or two, dying with genuine
cholera infantum, in a roomful of
other babies as one cholera stricken
chick with lot o. well ones. for soon
il must be an extremely healthy chick
that would not finally take the dis
ease. Not every chick that dies in the
brooder. any more than under the hen.
dies of white diarrhea, but il is well
to look on the case of the weak and
droopy chick with suspicion and get IT
away from the well. The writer has
had the disease in numbers of chicks,
and in few In either case. the one
chief remedy was quarantine by kill
ing off every sick-looking chick whit
out delay, Immediately changing the