Show OF WOODEN HEN BROODERS SHOULD BE THOR CLEANED good location in warm place placa where temperature never reaches freezing point successful method of feeding the chicks dy by E ac X in buying new broaders brooders bro odera oders thero there should be great care as to selection and a strict observance ot at rules regulating temperature brooders broaders Bro oders before being used should be cleaned scrubbed dis infected inside and out lamp flues cleaned outside painted then put lit in the sun to air and dry and also new wicks bought and used for or each hatch now to find a good location an in door brooder should be kept in a worm warm place where temperature never goes below freezing an outdoor one should ie be in a sunny bunny place for sun la is very essential the brooder placed cover floor and tho the hover with an inch 0 dry sand on top of which except under hover hovern and nd tor for st a foot ingtrout in front trout of it spread finely cut clover or hay bay for about an inch light the lamp or nir stove whichever it may be regulating ting the temperature according to directions so ob the beat V rl 1 n f brown leghorn where the chicks sleep la Is between 95 and 98 99 it degrees 6 1 bees the first week gradually dropping to 90 degrees by the fourteenth day and to 80 degrees tho the twenty first day leave the newly hatched chicks in the incubator nur aery thirty six hours then transfer them in r a warm lined basket to the brooder evening Is the best time providing a small drinking fountain filled with fresh tepid water and a box filled with charcoal the tha first three days feed a mixture of one third stale bread one third rolled oats and one third hard boiled twenty minutes using shells andall infer tilo thin shelled or misshapen eggs and mix crumbly but not sloppy with sweet milk adding a little chick size grit brit giving it five times dally daily over this the second day sprinkle chick feed the first three days keep chicks near the hover pushing them back under it after each meat meal until they are used to it the fourth day stop the nursery food feeding scratch feed throwing it la in the clover and start green food though sparingly and avoid sour bour or frozen feed or musty grain for they are certain death after the sixth mirth day begin feeding meat scraps in small quantities an ounce fed twice dally daily in reed feed hoppers the following successful method of feeding la Is excellent over the cut clover spread ten pounds of chick teed feed covering with two more inches of clover and ten pounds more of feed and so on until there are eight inches ot of litter and sixty pounds of feed tills this with meat scraps and green food lasts about live weeks and reared in this way chicks will prove sturdy healthy and possess great vitality |