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Title: The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sewell, Franklane L Tilson, Ida E
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn., Webb
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ndesirably fats at other times, butnow maintains just the heat we want. If a sitter appears dullor shivering I add a little wheat, bread and milk, or somethingto sustain her appetite. As they come back, one by one, I openprotectors, and in twenty minutes the work is done for all day. I mix eggs or chicks, so broods are pretty uniform, henceno hen can stick up her nose at anothers chickens and peckthem. The sitter is dusted with insect powder at frequent intervalsthroughout. Grease must never be used on her, because itspoils the hatch by closing the pores of eggs. The most critical time is at first. A consecutive twenty-four FARM POULTRY. 135 hours heat, insures the best hatches, so I set my trained hensin the morning, directly after they are fed, but should need toset wild ones at night. Taking off the Hatch. When the 18th or 19th day comes, I no longer take off thesitters, because the shells are brittle then, and many pippingchicks would be crushed on biddys return. Food in a dish or
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Hens With Broods on Farm Range. pan is offered. Some sitters partake gladly, others refuse.None but an old experienced hand, or one experienced if notold, should try to find empty shells. Those in plain sight I pullout, because biddy has her own way of working them to theedge, and cuddling the chicks near her. I have known hens todie when set the second or third time, hence never tax biddybeyond the first sitting. Chicks need no food for twenty-four hours. Then theclucker is put under my left arm, her legs held by that hand,and her chicks are carried in a little basket lined with haybrought warm from the house. If stormy, a woolen cloth is laidover. The hay in the coop has also been warmed, is fine, wellpacked with a cane, and not deep. 136 POULTRY MANUAL. Chills is the worst enemy to chicks, and lice comie next,each severer than improper food, because a healthy, hearty sys-tem can throw off much of the latter, while a congested or en-feebled one can do nothing. Keep chicks toes dry,

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