Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1913 — POULTRY [ARTICLE]

POULTRY

• BROODY HENS AS MOTHERS. IWfertbto For Chlckmi Hatched in Ml Incubator. Professor Graham of the Ontario Station considers that broody hens are preferable as mothers for chickana hatched In an incubator. “'Hie bast plan,” he says, to get the broody: bona to take the chicks is to give the hen two or three eggs out of the incubator ini the eighteenth or nineteenth day and allow her to hatch them. When your incubator a*tnh Is over take a dozen or fifteen ehickr ana and'put them Under the hen after dark. Even if they happen to differ in oolor from those she has hatched she will mother them all the same. It you give them to her In the daytime she may not do so. Waver neglect ti) give the hen a thnrough dusting before giving her any •Kgs. If there is one thing more than another that requires careful , attention in rearing young chickana, it is to keep them free from lice. If lice get upon’ them, from the hen or elsewhere, a large proportion of them will be almost sure to die.”