. Artificial incubating and brooding. will strive hardfor it. These weights represent the actual weights of several chicksselected as average representatives of the flock. A few of thebirds ran a trifle under weight and several ran a little overweight, so that the above table may be accepted as a fair esti-mate of the entire flock. Aside from the nonnal standing still which occurs in thefirst four days, these chicks grew continuously from the start;there were no set-backs. It has frequently been stated thatchicks are heirs to nothing but health and enjoyment of life,while the ills come from mi
. Artificial incubating and brooding. will strive hardfor it. These weights represent the actual weights of several chicksselected as average representatives of the flock. A few of thebirds ran a trifle under weight and several ran a little overweight, so that the above table may be accepted as a fair esti-mate of the entire flock. Aside from the nonnal standing still which occurs in thefirst four days, these chicks grew continuously from the start;there were no set-backs. It has frequently been stated thatchicks are heirs to nothing but health and enjoyment of life,while the ills come from mismanagement. There is a deal oftruth in this for it is the natural tendency of a healthy chick togrow and thrive. CHICKS GROWING OUTDOORS IN WINTER The wTiter has a flock of White Wyandotte chicks whichare being grown in an outdoor brooder, which has been runningout of door without shelter or protection from the weathersince the middle of February. The weather has been stormyand very cold. Extreme changes have been frequent, the out-. SS—AN OUT-DOOR BROODER IN OIEhATION TABLE OF ACTUAL WEIGHTS The following weights were attained by a flock of seventeenWhite Wyandotte chicks in ten weeks: Weight of chick when newly hatched 2 ounces Weight of chick when four days old 2 ounces Weight of chick when ten days old 4 ounces Weight of chick when three weeks old --8 ounces Weight of chick when four weeks old 12 ounces Weight of chick w hen eight weeks old -2 pounds Weight of chick when ten weeks old 3 pounds door temperature ranging from 50 degrees above zero at noonon some days to zero on several nights, with only a few nightswhen it was warmer than 12 or 14 degrees above zero. Onseveral occasions the wind has blown a gale of GO miles or morean hour. Quantities of snow on the ground and only a littlebare place in front of the brooder cleaned by shoveling. Yetthese chicks have done remarkably well, they are coveredwith heavy down and are growing rapidly. The hover space iskept quite wa
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