Seventh annual cataloge of Cyphers Incubator Company : manufacturers of the Cyphers non-moisture, self-ventilating and self-regulating incubators, the improved Cyphers brooders and a full line of poultry appliances, also dealers in poultry supplies . the incubator room (or cellar)warmed to about 65 degrees; this is in harmony with oursuggestion about not getting the eggs chilled at testing andturning times in winter. Embryo chicks are very sensitivethe first few days, and exposing the eggs to a chill atmospherecertainly is the cause of heavy losses ; hence the desirabilityof having some warmth
Seventh annual cataloge of Cyphers Incubator Company : manufacturers of the Cyphers non-moisture, self-ventilating and self-regulating incubators, the improved Cyphers brooders and a full line of poultry appliances, also dealers in poultry supplies . the incubator room (or cellar)warmed to about 65 degrees; this is in harmony with oursuggestion about not getting the eggs chilled at testing andturning times in winter. Embryo chicks are very sensitivethe first few days, and exposing the eggs to a chill atmospherecertainly is the cause of heavy losses ; hence the desirabilityof having some warmth in the incubator room in winter. Itis certainly poor policy to shut the incubator up in a tightcellar where no fresh air can get to it. In such case thelamp soon exhausts the supply of oxygen and there is noneof that life-giving element for the baby chicks to , first of all, for the absolutely essential fresh air, andthen see to it that a fairly equable temperature is maintainedin the hatching room, to the end that it be not too cold forhandling the eggs in winter nor too warm for the best resultsin summer ; as the chicks have the right to be well-born we should see to it that the conditions are the most favorableto that Fig. 1. Sectional View of Incubator House. 169 THE INCUBATOR AND BROODING HOUSE. The Brooder of the Hot-Water-Pipe Brooder. Undoubtedly the most popular brooder system to-day is thehot-water-pipe brooder house, although many are adoptingthe plan of equipping the brooder house with separate in-door and sectional brooders. Some who have the hot-water-pipe system are also using individual indoor broodersfor nursery brooders, and promoting the chicks to thehot-water-pipe hovers when ten days to two weeks old. Thehouse is usually built with a long and short roof (sometimescalled a hip-roof) the rear wall being seven feet high atthe back, five feet high in front and eight feet high at theridge. There is a walk three feet eight i
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