El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-03-25

FTER incubation comes ~brOoding
"A and as h~atchable eggs are essen
IA tia to successful incubation so
are Hvable chicks a product Of satisfac-
tory brooding. To get these livabl
chicks it Is necessary to go back a lit
tie farther than is required 10 secure
the hatchable eggs
Parent stock Of little stamina can
produce h~atchable eggs but they are
a great stumbling block &c. successful
brooding. Look first 10 the parent
stock keeping their up 70 tns
highest point Then when the eggs
come see that they are properly cared
for and properly i~ncubated to odu
hardy, vigorous chicks observe Lne
rules prescribed in last weeks Herald
on incubation and the chicks Matched
will probably respond TO proper brood
ing.
It is folly. however, TO operate your
incubator in such a way that q large
percentage Of fertile eggs fail to hatch
and then expect the chicks which DO
manage TO emerge from the shell 70
live and grow. They are not what /
call livable chicks The proposition is
aromatic that, if the conditions Of in
cubation are 50 adverse that a ma
jorfty OF fertile eggs fail TO produce
manage TO scramble into the light OF
day do so with barely enough or NE
and energy for the feat and not an ounce
of reserve force to meet the eLlgencieS
of su~perheated or under heated, or
badly ventilated brooder systems
which. on the other hand, an egg incu-
bated under conditions which hatch
practically all Of the fertile eggs pro-
duces a chick which does not see the
light OF day by a scratch" but when
the period Of incubation is at an end
breaks from its confinement with
strength and vigor enough to break a
shell as thick as a coffee
cup and if given just half a chance II
will be no more Of a scratch that ne
lives and grows thar that he failed to
die in the shell.
Put In Brooder When Hatehed.
Successful brooding. in my opinion.
requires that you have the brooder
warmed up for the accommodation OF
the chicks as soon as they begin to
hatch and as 500 as they are dry they
should be placed in il. The practice as
a rule is to let the incubator entirely
alone after the eggs begin to pip eX-
cept to attend to the lamp. never open
ing it except when some emergency
arises. The chicks hatch and at once
begin to toward the ugnteu
front and drop down into the nursery
below falling from a temperature or
103 TO one Of about %. Here they are
permitted to remain painting for breath
in a vitiated atmosphere n with the
e~xhalations, from their little lungs.
poisoning the air of the incubator and
destroying the lives OF their brothers
ia TAX - EA4F NNNAAa
New Chicks Need Fresh Air.
Strange that a man would expect
40 little chicks to remain for As hours
in the egg chamber of an Incubator
with the same ventilation that the eggs
required before a shell was broken
Better remove the chicks at 1requent
intervals from the incubator and place
them in the brOOder where they can
have fresh air and a little more
warmth than is found in the nursery
OF an Incubator. When an old hen
ALA a-wMH Ea# ann d
chicks remain under her and in identt-
tically the same temperature as the
egg and natures way IS usually the
correct way. Hence I think that the
sooner the chicks are removed from the
low temperature Of the nursery Of the
incubator into "a brooder running at
about 100 degrees the better
White DinrrhOea ScOuFge.
The cOurg of incubator chicks Is
white diarrhOea- It is supposed to be
contagious and to be transmitted from
the egg This nay all be true n yet
I have incubated eggs and brOOded the
chicks. some artificially and some with
hens. all from the same stock and the
motherless chicks were scOurged with
white diarrhOea while those following
the lei were not affected 1 am quite
sure that in the chill of the incubator
nursery and the IS hours Of life in its
gas carbon dioxide eXhaled from the
lungs Of the little chicks is the source
Of the white diarrhOea plague.
Get them out Of the incubator as
quickly as possible and into q brooder
heated Up TO 100 degrees. This tempera-
ture, Of course can and should be
gradually reduced but not too rapidly
The chicks themselves are good enough
indicators Of the degree of heat needed.
If too cold they cluster together and IL
warm they scatter out. If too warm
they indicate It by painting and spread
ing their wings. Painting, however, is
frequently caused by insufficient ven
tlation as in the case in the incubator
nursery Ny experience teaches me
that there is much more danger OF too
little than Of too much heat In prop
erly constructed breeders there is a
way OF escape from the s~uperheated