Show P J t 4 WATCH INCUBATOR WHILE HATCHING While labile many successful poultry growers grow grow- ers are now buyIng old day chicks for replenishing their flocks s and for raisIng raising rais- rais Ing early broilers and pullets there thero are still sUII a great number or of small Incubators incubators In- In used on farms Directions for op operating these machInes machines ma- ma chInes come with them says Alien Alten G. G Oliver poultry extension specialist special special- I t at the North Carolina state college college col- col lege yet et In most cases these directions lions apply only to the mechanical op op- We tae would not attempt to give ghe specific rules that would work well under all conditions The fIrst may be made when atmospheric conditions are Ideal resulting In an Ideal hatch of strong chicks the next hatch may she give poor scrawny bIrds even though the Incubator ran per per- There are some few points to to 5 consider however In hatching out the early chicks this spring t The normal tIme for an es egg to hatch Is 21 days states Mr Oliver Too Too much heat means a hatch In about 19 10 days and too little heat In about 22 to 23 days The temperature at atthe atthe the center center of the eggs ought to be kept at degrees Moisture Is next In importance Th The amount of evaporation In the egg determInes the thes s size ze ot of the ar air cell at the end and the quantIty of food left for tor the chick when It hatches This oleo alro determines deter deter- mines the size of t the young yoong bird The operator of the Incubator should watch the size of the all air cell as the hatch progresses and add such moisture mols mois- ture as Is needed Is also Important states Mr 11 Oliver Thi brings in n pure oxygen and takes out the carbon dioxide The Thee e egg g Is a factory with the materials In Inthe inthe the shell as the raw product ny carefully care care- fully regulating the heat and watching hatching the size of the air cells It Is possible to supply enough b fresh air and the correct amount of moisturE so that there will be little danger from lack ot of Turning the eggs stimulates the hatching chick to action and gives It exercise and strength |