. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor ... y are of the same age. But a divisionis the better and safer plan at all times, as it is annoy-ing when a brood, say of a dozen, has been entrustedto each hen, to find at night a score under one andfour under another. When day-old chicks are bought, and a hen has not beenpurchased with them, any quiet broody hen will take tothem if she has been sitting for a few days. It is betterto remove a few of the dummy eggs from under her, G 2 84. THE POULTRY MANUAL and place part of the chicks with her before entrustingthe lot, to
. The poultry manual. A complete guide for the breeder and exhibitor ... y are of the same age. But a divisionis the better and safer plan at all times, as it is annoy-ing when a brood, say of a dozen, has been entrustedto each hen, to find at night a score under one andfour under another. When day-old chicks are bought, and a hen has not beenpurchased with them, any quiet broody hen will take tothem if she has been sitting for a few days. It is betterto remove a few of the dummy eggs from under her, G 2 84. THE POULTRY MANUAL and place part of the chicks with her before entrustingthe lot, to see if she takes kindly to them, and then addthe rest of the brood. They are better left under heron the nest for a few hours, or for a whole night, beforeplacing her out in a coop. Hens differ as much intemper as their mistresses. One will adopt a brood atany time, even as soon as she commeTices to be may remove a single platter egg, and add a broodof a dozen or more chicks, and she will take to themregardless of the miracle of production of a dozen chicks. Fig. 11.—a Roomy Chicken Coop made from a bacon box, with sliding door,and well ventilated. from a single egg. ^Vhereas another, after sittingthree weeks, will not take to a single chick. It is well,therefore, for the purchaser of chicks to have more thanone broody hen in , or to have his nursein the shape of an artificial rearer ready for anyemergency. The hen should be dusted with insect-powder a fewdays before the chicks are due. If this has beenneglected it should be done before she is placed outwith her brood. Otherwise the body lice, with whichshe may be covered, leave her to prey upon her tenderbrood. Lice cause many deaths among young chicksas bad feeding. ON REARING CHICKENS 85 The coop into which she is placed should be roomyin dimensions; not less than 24 to 30 inches square, sothat the chicks may have pure air, and room to escapewhile she dusts and shakes herself. She should be fed fir
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