Show MORTALITY IN BABY CHICKS often attributed to parent stock when fault Is really not inherent test teat for cause tho the largo large morta mortality illy in baby chicles chicks la Is very often attributed to the parent eaf stock when the fault la Is really not inherent in an all effort to ascertain the real causo cause for this condition make I 1 a test remove carefully all traces of at food frakn the brooders broaders bro oders leaving none whatever near tako take some of tho the chicks tha Chave tile tho caro of tile the mother lion and place them in the brooder over night continue this ihla for several nights in succession being sure bure to return them to thai care of their mother each morning each morning note the condition of these little fellows and if they are not injured or aro are none tho the worse for their experience in the brooder you will know that tho the temperature in the brooder Is IF about right and the fault does not llo lie in that direction with tho brooder eliminated as a pop possible sible causo cause for the mortality you most begin to look elsewhere this narrows itself down to one of two calbes improper feeding or laick lack of exorcise exercise now test for tho the food cause chango your conditions of feeding radically and note nota the result it if tho the cause Is not from the feeding it must bo be from lack of exercise correct thisby this by supplying them with a proper amount of this requisite simply finding your chicks dead in the brooder in the tha morning when they are all crowded in a corner carrier Is not sufficient proof that they died from too low a temperature sick weakly and indisposed chicks will always huddle together whether they are cold or not i they will not huddle together however should tho the temperature be excessively ces high in which event they will spread apart and when found dead will usually be lying on their breasts br casta this condition however Is IB seldom noted no as it takes a very high temperature to cause them thein to spread ap apart artand and to cause their death |