. Artificial incubating and brooding. than in the trays; this also prevents their turningover and disturbing the unhatched eggs. About once in fouror five hours the dry ducklings should be drojiped down, but thework should be done quicklj, so as to derange the temperatureof the egg chamber as little as possible. After the hatch is wellover let the ducklings remain in the nursery chamber for abouttwenty-four hours, then they are removed to the brooder houseand put in the warmest pens, next to the heater. BROODING AND FEEDING THE DUCKLINGS To carrj the ducklings from the incubator to the brooder
. Artificial incubating and brooding. than in the trays; this also prevents their turningover and disturbing the unhatched eggs. About once in fouror five hours the dry ducklings should be drojiped down, but thework should be done quicklj, so as to derange the temperatureof the egg chamber as little as possible. After the hatch is wellover let the ducklings remain in the nursery chamber for abouttwenty-four hours, then they are removed to the brooder houseand put in the warmest pens, next to the heater. BROODING AND FEEDING THE DUCKLINGS To carrj the ducklings from the incubator to the brooderhouse a square basket, about 2 feet 6 inches long by 15 to 18inches wide and a foot high, is the lightest and best thing. Someduck farms use handled boxes, similar in .shape, but the addedweight is a drawback. On the basket are close covers, hingedat the center, to keep the little fellows secure and protected fromthe wind. Such a basket as here described will hold about ahundred ducklings. AVhen it is filled it is carried to the pen. 57—DUCKLINGS ONE WEEK OLD in the brooder house and the birds carefully tipped out onto thefeed board, where a small supply of food has been placed. Thefood at first is the infertile egg boiled hard and chopped fine,mixed with about four times its bulk of stale bread crumbs,or cracker crumbs, and having about five per cent of its bulkcoarse, sharp sand or fine (chick-size) gravel. They should befed every two hours for the first few days, feeding only a littleat a time, and see that the food is all eaten up before feedingagain. If any food is left uneaten it should be cleaned off theboards and thrown on the fertilizer heap; it will be so soiled asto be unfit for feeding again. The temperature of the brooders should be about 90 degreesat first, and the animal heat of the little ducklings will bringthe heat up to about After carrying them through a cou-ple of nights at his temjierature 90 degrees will be wann enough,and after a week SO to 85 deg
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