The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-04-15
Care Given Chicks In May Spells
Profits i'm Fall


Profits i'm Fall
Where good breeding stock is used
and reasonable care is given the hen
or incubator, good-sized matches may
reasonably be expected. The size OF
the flock in the fall, however, de-
ponds pretty largely on the attention
given the chicks during the first six
weeks of their existence.
The following suggestions for their
care during this period are given by
poultry specialists of United states
Department of Agriculture:
Start the brooder a day or two be-
fore putting in the chicks to see that
the heating apparatus is working
properly.
Brooder lamps should be cleaned
every day.
A record should be kept of each
hatch, showing the date set, number
and kind of eggs, number tested out
and the chickens Matched.
Powder the chicks occasionally
during the first eight weeks.
Chicks should not receive feed I'M
til they are SO hours old.
In cold weather 10 to Is chicks are
sufficient for one hen, while in warm
err weather Is to 20 can be cared for
successfully
Toe-mark the chicks as soon as
they are Matched. This enables one
to tell their ages later.
Never mix chicks of different ages.
Coufine the hen until the chicks
are weaned
The coop for hen and chicks should
be well ventilated, easy to Clean ana
of sufficient proportions to insure
comfort.
The early Matched pullet is the one
that begins to lay early in the fall
when eggs are high in price.
The cockerel that can be marketed
as a broiler in March or April brings
more money than the one marketed
in June.
Turkey Hen Is Unsurpassed As Moth
err for POults.
For poults the turkey hen is the
hest mother than can be found. she
knows their needs and can talk 10
them in a language that they soon
learn to understand. At the ap-
proach of any danger she gives a
low. warning note that sends them
scurrying in every direction fer a
weed patch of grass where they can
lie flat on the ground safely hidden
from view. While on free range, sne
keeps her brood together by talking
continuously in a contented, purrins
tone so that the poults always know
where she is.
When her poults become widely
separated, or if some become lost
and she hears their peep, peep she
calls them with the characteristic
yelp heard so frequently during the
having season. Now and then, while
the poults are but a few days Old
she catches a grasshopper or other
insect and calls the poults to come
and get it. They soon learn to find
their own feed, however, and range
out ahead of the mother hen in
search of whatever they can find.
Young turkeys usually remain with
the mother hen until about october or
November when the male ordinarily
separate from the females and range
Inv themselves. When two turke!
hens with broods of about the same
age are turned out on free range to-
gether they will remain in one HOOK
and as this makes 1t easier to hunt
them up and care for them 1t is ad-
yisable to turn out two or three
hens with their broods together, when
they are given free range. 1t is not
a good plan to have more than this
number of young poults in one flock
say poultry specialists in the United
States Department of Agriculture, as
they may all try to crowd under one
or two hens to be lowered.
Give Goslings Plenty OF Grass.