The Farm-poultry . that a* arule they lose by doing so, if it happens to bean early season with settled warm weatherthe mau with the early birds is not unlikelyto have things very much his own way at thefall and early winter shows. Coops for Early Chicks. Those who do get out early chicks withhens must provide comfortable coops forthem, make-shifts may do later—but are use-less now. One of the cuts on page 215 showsa very good and substantial coop for this pur-pose, which I saw at one of the places inXatick where Felch Barred Rocks were photograph included also the poultry-house, a ne
The Farm-poultry . that a* arule they lose by doing so, if it happens to bean early season with settled warm weatherthe mau with the early birds is not unlikelyto have things very much his own way at thefall and early winter shows. Coops for Early Chicks. Those who do get out early chicks withhens must provide comfortable coops forthem, make-shifts may do later—but are use-less now. One of the cuts on page 215 showsa very good and substantial coop for this pur-pose, which I saw at one of the places inXatick where Felch Barred Rocks were photograph included also the poultry-house, a neat and durable one, and the pictureshows both coop and house so well that itdoes not seem necessary to explaiu their con-struction further. Notice that the house isboarded up and down and battened. Thisconstruction used to be very common, but wedo not see so much of it now. Everythingruns to cheap lumber covered with paper orshingles. For a city poultry house I think abattened house one of the neatest that can be. POl LTKV HOUSE OF J. W. SHAW, BROCKTON, MASS. warjier and drier. However, there are dif-ficulties in handling early chicks, in additionto the difficulty of getting them, every where. Iu Colorado, it was easier to keep chicksgrowing through February and March whilewith the hens than to keep the same chickscoming along right in April, (and May, too, ifthe nights happened to continue very cold),after thehens had weaned them, and I thinkthat for one who desired many early chicks,brooders would be desirable. As we did nothatch especially for market, and only raised asmall proportion of early chicks, we simplytook extra precautions with the weaned chicksduring rough spring weather—what was mostnecessary being to keep them warm at nightfor the days there are generally sunny. Put in N«e\v England, anil the same is trueof much of the northern states, with theground covered with snow, or wet and colduntil well on iu April, early chicks are notprofitably handled, except in
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