The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-01-22
CAREFUL GATHERING

CAREFUL GATHERING
w hen You are ready to save
the eggs you should Immediately
begin TO exercise the care that
goes far towards iDsuriDg uni
form, vigorous chicks This
care starts with the collecting OF
the egga. This should he done
at least two or three times daily,
in order to avoid any danger of
premature Incubation or OF sub
| Jectlon 10 temperature that
might freeze the eggs 1t ia ne
oessary that the eggs be clean
aud this will be assured If you
see that the nests contain clean
material, that there Ia deep litter
on the floor and that no birds
roost IN the nests
Hatching eggs must be hand
led carefully at oil times. A lit
tie consideration enables one to
realize that fertile egg Ia really
delicate living Organitm and
must be given careful treatment
If 1t Ia to hatch into a live, vigor.
ous chick Rough or careless
hat ding Is likely to rupture the
internal membranes and make an
egg useless for Matching.
Upon the selection of the
patching eggs depends toa very
large extent the number and kind
of hicks that will be produced
No egg should be set that for any
reason whatever seems likely to
FAIL IN hatch ing or liable to pro
duce an undesirable chick. Each
egg should be examined carefully
and any that are too large or too
small, Of unusual shape or tha,
have thin, notified, coarse or por.
ous shells should DO rejected.
UNIFORM SIZED EGGS
The aim Of the poultry owner
should be to secure eggs of uni
form size, "a such settings will
be most likely to produce uniform
chicks Experienced poultry
breeders agree that no hatcbirg
egg should weigh less than two
ounces, but extremely large eggs
are also undesirable. Thin shell.
ed eggs should never be ussd for
Matching, for, even If they do not
become broken during incubation,
they allow the liquid contents of
the eggs TO evaporate too rapidly.
Eggs having a ridge around
the middle or possessing other
peouliarIties of shape or shell
texture may hatch, but 1t is IN
wise to use them, rs there IL dan
ger Of the chicks being abnormal
in some respect. IL should also
be remembered that even though
the chicks from such eggs are sp
parently all right, the pullets
may inherit q tendency to lay
similar eggs.
FRESH EGGS BEST
Undoubtedly the most necessa
ry requirement OF Matching eggs
Ia that they be fresh. Every day
after a fertile egg Is a week old 10
loses somewhat in batchiDg pow
er and under no circumstances
should eggs be set that are more
than two weeks old. TO do so Ia
to greatly increase the chances
of "death in the shell' or Of weak
chicks IL he eggs hatch OF
course, 1t is impossible to set
eggs az soon as they are laid but
II has been proven by careful OK
perimehts that best results are
when eggs from two to
five days old are set.
KEEP EGGS COOL
However, even Eve days is Oft
Ell too short . time for the aver
age poultry owner to secure y
setting Of eggs and It Is always
necessary to keep Matching eggs
a certain length Of time before
they can be placed under a hen
or in an incubator. The best
place TO store them is In q cool
place such an q cellar where the
air does not have enough motion
20 cause any marked evaporation
Of the liquid contents Of the
eggs A temperature Of 40 or 80
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