The business hen (a new brood) . t what is clean to one man maybe filthy to another. The little chicks are weak and unable to care forthemselves when they are put in the brooder. Vermin and disease livein filth and we cannot be too careful about cleaning the brooders beforea new lot of chicks are put in. The brooder should be made so that ij:opens readily. When a brood has grown so that the chicks can be takenaway the brooder should be opened and thoroughly scrubbed out with hotwater. The corners should be smeared with kerosene and the hovertaken out and carefully gone over. The brooder should
The business hen (a new brood) . t what is clean to one man maybe filthy to another. The little chicks are weak and unable to care forthemselves when they are put in the brooder. Vermin and disease livein filth and we cannot be too careful about cleaning the brooders beforea new lot of chicks are put in. The brooder should be made so that ij:opens readily. When a brood has grown so that the chicks can be takenaway the brooder should be opened and thoroughly scrubbed out with hotwater. The corners should be smeared with kerosene and the hovertaken out and carefully gone over. The brooder should, if possible, standopen to the sun in order to dry thoroughly before the new chicks are putin. These things are emphasized by those who discuss the care of thelittle chicks, but they cannot be made too plain. Those who have seenlittle chicks suffer from damp brooders or seen them suffocated by lampfumes or chilled when the lamp burns too low, or wasted when it goes toohigh, know the necessity of using a competent chicken Fig. 16. NEW JERSEY BROODER HOUSE. CHAPTER VII. Care of the Baby Chick. Neither brooder nor incubator can think. Both require constant atten-tion, or the eggs or chicks may be too hot or too cold. The old hen looksafter her brood, and sees that they are made comfortable. Man must behalf hen, and let his brooder represent the other half. Even when thehen hatches the chicks she cannot be expected to nurse them as a cowwould nurse a calf! If it is possible to give it the chicks will do betterwith a free range with hen, but hawks, rats and other vermin may gettoo many of the little ones. If these pests are bad the hen may be keptin a coop and a frame made for the chicks by placing four 12-inch-wideboards on edge with inch-mesh wire netting over the entire top. This givesthe chicks a run and protects them. Even when free range is possible thehen should not be given entire charge until the chicks are strong enoughto follow without being tired out. Do not thi
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