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Show PHEASANT CHICKS FROM INCUBATORS Good Results Reported by Experiment Station. Two years of experiments on 11,-000 11,-000 eggs and 1,000 chicks of ring-necked ring-necked pheasants gave results which have been published In a bulletin bul-letin by the I'ennsylvania state college col-lege agricultural experiment station. I'rof. E. W. Callenbach of the poultry husbandry department, con ducted the project in co-operation with the Pennsylvania board of game commissioners. The Investigation Investi-gation included artificial methods of propagation for rearing the pl.eas ants. It was found that ringnecked pheasant eggs can be hatched satisfactorily satis-factorily in modern artificial lncu bators. The best results were ob tained when the eggs were incubated incubat-ed for eighteen days at relatively-high 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 need ed more room. Battery brooding proved unsatisfactory because of excessive mortality and poor feather feath-er development. Better early growth of ringnecked ring-necked pheasant chicks was obtained ob-tained on rations 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 use of a ration analyzing approximately approxi-mately 28 per cent protein. |