. The Eastern poultryman . good place in which to run incubators if it is not so cold as to require the lamps to be run very high in order to maintain the necessary degree of warmth inside of the machine. If several incubators are located in the same room, great care should be taken to provide proper venti- lation, so that the machines may be fur- nished with clean fresh air at all times. Where many machines are used, the hand turning of the eggs absorbs consid- erable time. We have used several turn- ing devices and conducted experiments to determine the differences between hand and machine t
. The Eastern poultryman . good place in which to run incubators if it is not so cold as to require the lamps to be run very high in order to maintain the necessary degree of warmth inside of the machine. If several incubators are located in the same room, great care should be taken to provide proper venti- lation, so that the machines may be fur- nished with clean fresh air at all times. Where many machines are used, the hand turning of the eggs absorbs consid- erable time. We have used several turn- ing devices and conducted experiments to determine the differences between hand and machine turning, and have not yet received better hatches from the hand turned eggs. Machines that have automatic turning shelves will not hold quite as many eggs as when flat shelves are used, but the saving of time is of importance. A person should get thoroughly ac- quainted with a machine before putting the eggs in and then make changes and adjustments with great care, lest the results be extreme. We used to think it necessary to have the chickens hatched in March so that they might be ready for laying by November. By better methods of feeding and treatment we can now delay the hatching until April, and the first half of May, and the pullets get to laying maturity as early in the season as formerly. We use indoor brooders, mostly, and very much prefer them to any outside brooders we have seen in use. The port- able brooder houses are built on runners so that they may be readily moved about. The houses are 12 feet long, some of them are 6 and others 7 feet wide. Seven feet is the better width. They are 6 feet high in front and 4 feet high at the back. The frame is of 2X3-inch stuff; the floor is double boarded. The building is boarded, papered and shingled all over. A door 2 feet wide is in the center of the front and a 6-light, sliding window is on each side of it. A small slide is put in the door, near the top, by which ventila- tion may be obtained early in the season, before the
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