. Poultry for the farm and home. Courtesy Farmers Review A good batch. CARE OF SETTING HENS. Hens will hatch a larger per cent of chicks than incubators butit is less trouble to raise incubator and brooder chicks. Flighty,nervous hens or any hens showing symptoms of diarrhoea should notbe used. Build good nests for the setting hens. In the bottom puta layer of moist earth. Over this put straw. Keep the mother henfree from lice. Itis a good plan toset several hensat once and putthem in a roomapart from therest of the food and waterare kept beforelh<ni, they -willpractically takecare
. Poultry for the farm and home. Courtesy Farmers Review A good batch. CARE OF SETTING HENS. Hens will hatch a larger per cent of chicks than incubators butit is less trouble to raise incubator and brooder chicks. Flighty,nervous hens or any hens showing symptoms of diarrhoea should notbe used. Build good nests for the setting hens. In the bottom puta layer of moist earth. Over this put straw. Keep the mother henfree from lice. Itis a good plan toset several hensat once and putthem in a roomapart from therest of the food and waterare kept beforelh<ni, they -willpractically takecare of t h e ni-
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