Show i Poultry Facts Facts Facts' i Dirty poultry houses harbor disease Moldy feed or moldy litter Utter may give Ive the baby chicks pneumonia In order to secure top prices for eggs on the market they must be of df f high quality One of ot the newer developments de lachick in la chick raising Is the use of electrically heated incubators and brooders Move Mo the brooder houses to fresh ground two or three times during the season In order to keep the young birds healthy Feed hopper space not too much and not too little Is a big factor In determining feed consumption and growth of chicks To hatch a n desirable chick hatching eggs should weigh be between n 24 and 20 24 ounces per dozen and should be uniform uni uni- form In shape size and color a Hoot noot vegetables such sueh as ns mangels boots beets carrots etc are good but not as liS good for green feed fd as ns the plant that grows above e the ground I Keep pp things as sanitary as os possible around the growing chicks The worst enemy n and best pre preventive of one enc c Is clean ground clean water clean clan feed fed and Ian clean hou houses es a The practice of reproducing the flock with 1 eggs laid laM by hens ns produces n I better quail quality chick than breeding from pullets The old hens have ha stopped laying and are Ire storing reserve e I vigor sor or to l hI be p converted ron Into Inlo stron strong vig vi- orous chicks a The fIc incubator should lop lie and carefully Inspected fl for r di II parts palts stats slot Ie lie removed ind 0 nd Jt Testing t mi Ua he hI done l bj h immersing alternately In III hot and cold rater vater If It the wafer Per Il ets sluggish I. I ly It U should be discarded |