. Artificial incubation and incubators ... the machine. In very cold weather Ishould limit the number to fifteen; in May she may have thirtyor forty and will take good care of them. Put her in a good, dry,clean coop. Figs. 21 and 22 show a plain and cheap style breeders can make themselves. If anything more elaborate is desired, specimens are shown inFigs 23,24 and 25. The last two are shown with wire runs attached. 38 THE FIRST FEED. This is of great value where eats and rats show too great a likingfor chickens, and may be used with great benefit until the chicks,are ten days to tw
. Artificial incubation and incubators ... the machine. In very cold weather Ishould limit the number to fifteen; in May she may have thirtyor forty and will take good care of them. Put her in a good, dry,clean coop. Figs. 21 and 22 show a plain and cheap style breeders can make themselves. If anything more elaborate is desired, specimens are shown inFigs 23,24 and 25. The last two are shown with wire runs attached. 38 THE FIRST FEED. This is of great value where eats and rats show too great a likingfor chickens, and may be used with great benefit until the chicks,are ten days to two weeks old. With the brooder it is especially valuable, where they are placedout doors, in keeping the young chicks near home until they havelearned where to run for shelter and warmth. The runs I have inuse are of different shape from that shown in the cut. They arefour feet long, two wide, and one high, made of three-quarter inch mesh No. 18ting, fast-frame ofall galvan-thing likeshown atAnotherrun may bewire net-feet wide,foot lengths. Fig. 21. wire net-ened to aband iron,ized. Some-t h e oneFig. ofting twocut into sixand tacked to wooden frames, two by six feet; an end piece two feet squarewill be necessary if it is wished to cover the run. The sameframes may be made of quarter-inch round iron, the ends on oneside projecting four to six inches, and pointed so as to stick intothe ground and hold the frame in an upright position. Where thewooden frames are used it will be necessary to tie them, or holdthem in place with the t y - fourfood needthe yolk-sacsorbed byens just pre-their exclu-the shell, af-the suste-
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