Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1917 — POULTRY FACTS [ARTICLE]

POULTRY FACTS

A' variety of grain, with some meat food and some green food, is essential to the good health and productiveness -of the flock. Be careful that eggs which-are to be used for hutching do not get chilled in the nest.* or chilled while being saved to pin in tiie incubators. lighted poultry house is jjjte Tmnfortablelrhd boused in Stic-h a place cannot lie expected to produce the best results.^—;Unless they agree well and do not flghf or quarrel, it is useless to rr.\ to keep two males in the same breeding pen at the same time. One may be confined one day and the other the next. ~/

It is impossible to-secure good batches from Incubators which are operated in poorly ventilated places. Neither can hens hatch well if the eggs are constantly surrounded by impure air. Always disinfect incubators and brooders, that have been used previously, before using them this season. This is to be sure that no germs of disease remain in them, to attack the little chicks. Sometimes nervous, energetic males will stand around at feeding time and allow the hens to consume most of the

feed. Such a bird occasionally heroines so poor that his strength is reduced. and in such cases the bird should be fed separately. The early sitting hens should have warmly made nests lined with tine hay or something of that kind. The hen can furnish only a certain amount of warmth, and if that is overcome by the cold that gets in from the outside, the eggs cannot hatch well.