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Show PHEASANT CHICKS FROM INCUBATORS Good Results Reported by Experiment Station, Two years of experiments on 11,000 eggs and 1,000 chicks of ringnecked pheasants gave results which have been published tn a bulletin by the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania state college agricultural experiment experi-ment station. Prof. E. W. Callenbach, of the poultry poul-try husbandry department, conducted the project in co-operation with the Pennsylvania board of game commissioners. commis-sioners. The investigation included artificial methods of propagation for rearing the pheasants. It was found that ringnecked pheasant pheas-ant eggs can be hatched satisfactorily In modern artificial Incubators. The best results were obtained when the eggs were Incubated for eighteen days at relatively high humidity In an agitated-air or forced-draft incubator and then were hatched in a separate, sectional, sec-tional, still-air incubator. Ringnecked pheasant chicks were brooded satisfactorily in colony houses with attached wire-floored sun porches. After the chicks reached six weeks of age they needed more room. Battery brooding proved unsatisfactory because be-cause of excessive mortality and poor feather development. Better early growth of ringnecked pheasant chicks was obtained on rations ra-tions of higher- protein content than those used for chicks of the domestic fowl. The best growth and feathering and the greatest feed consumption per 100 chicks were obtained through the nse of a ration analyzing approximately approximate-ly 28 per cent protein. |