The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-04
BROODING DEVICES !
UNIVERSALLY USED
Poultrymen No Longer Depend
on Vagaries Of Hen in
Raising Chicks.
ARTIFICIAL METHOD BEST
~ REESE ". HICKS.

~ REESE v. HICKS.
Before the development Of modern
hovers and devices for brooding the hen
was the sole dependence Of the poultry
raiser for mothering the 4ouns chicks
As a hen becomes broody only when she
wishes. and that wish usually strikes her
after she has laid out her batch OF eggs
IN the late spring. Il would mean that
chicks could be brooded only late in the
spring II wa depended solely on her.
Hence. because ne could not select the
time when ne would brood his chicks,
the poultry raiser In other days had to
allow the hen to control his business.
{ II meant In some unfavorable seasons
his hen. brooded his chicks 30 late that
the young puiiets ala not nnish in time
to give any fall and winter eses; the
times OF the year when eggs are high
60, and most profits are made IN the
poultry business.
A. each non could care for sniy
I limited number Of CHICKS the poultry
man who depended on hens to do his
brooding was Of necessity limited In the
number of hens he carried. He was put
to a heavy expense feeding these hens
while they broodsd the future flock.
when these same hens should have been
laying eggs and making a profit for him.
I, meant a loss In feed for the hens a.
we'll a. eggs that they should lay on
which the owner could make a profit. II
meant too, a loss on the money he had
invested in the hens that were earning
no prof. and not laying eggs TO even
pay for their keep. Hens often take
dislike to some OF their own chicks ana
night them or either killing them o.
driving them away until these unfur-
tuuata chicks dwindle and die or grow
into poorlv developed fowls hardly worth
their feed II kept IN the mock. The hens
often trample their chicks To death
Heavy losses always followed for these
reasons where hens were used 20 do the
brood!ng.
Hens demanded moro caro- man
modern sanitary hovers and brooders, AZ
they broke eggs while Matching. bctouled
their own nests thus damaging the
hatch and requiring careful watching
and attention by their owner, They had
TO he watched after their chicks were on
or else they would wander and dras
their frail offspring 20 death fhr"ugr
dewy weeds W men Nor''' "' r'Il ~"
wind came UP the pe'Ns'S So ,'.' "r".' ''',
her Wigs ana hover her brood. resulting
I'm drowned chicks At least they Were
badly hedragged and chilled, ard many
OF them CAV" up the unequal struggle
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