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Show COMFORT FOR YOUNG CHICKS Essential Requirements Are Normal Heat, Clean Quarters, Fresh Air and Proper Exercise. The care of the young chick, from the time it is hatched until it is sold, is bound up in the. one word "comfort" "com-fort" The normal amount of heat, clean quarters, good, fresh air with plenty of room and exercise these are the essential requirements, and they must be supplied. Good breeding has more to do with healthy chicks and normal growth than good incubation incuba-tion Many persons can hatch large numbers of chicks, but comparatively few can raise them successfully. The experienced breeder begins long before the hatching season to prepare for the management of his growing stock, by the careful selection of breeders Labor and feed will avail little or nothing if the chicks do not inherit a strong vigorous constitution. This quality is entirely dependent upon the age and condition of the breeding stock. Discouragement and failure are sure to follow where immature pullets, pul-lets, diseased hens, or hens of low vitality vi-tality are used as breeders. Only strong, vigorous hens which have passed their first year as layers should go into the breeding pens. The eggs from such hens which have been mated to large, healthy cockerels, should be gathered .carefully and kept in a temperature of not more than 60 degrees, and 50 will not do any harm. The sooner the eggs are incubated after being laid the better. |