| Show CARING FOR LITTLE CHICKS cleanliness Is important to a degree of success or failure furnish fresh clean water in hatching chicks either with hena or the modern way the incubator first ot all observe cler allness everywhere this Is important to a decree of sue cess or ballue filth means the latter always don t teed tho chicks at all until they have been hatched twenty our to thirty six hours they don t aped it don t feed them any musty sour or unwholesome teed of any kind or otherwise as it will cause bowel trouble and death don t lose sight ot the drinking water foo it Is just as Import anti that it be furnished fresh and clean and the drinking vessels kept clean don t lt you use a brooder allow it to get too hot or too cold either Is a fatal mistake see to it also that the chicks do not overcrowd and trample each other to death give them plenty 0 brooder room they will ba more healthy don t your brood cops ox chick runs at or near a wood pile brush heap old outhouse etc aluch make too good a harbor for rats pole cats and other varmints var mints that rill prey on sour chicks at the least alty dont forget to provide shelter that the chicks can run under at any time either out of the rain or eun many a promising lot of chicks have gone to an early finish through the tact that there was no shelter prepared for them when a heavy shower came up the same is true of young turkeys |
