Show au t PHEASANT CHICKS FROM incubators good results reported by experiment station two years of experiments on eggs and 1000 chicks of 0 ring necked pheasants gave results which have been published in a bulletin by the pennsylvania state college agricultural experiment station prof E W ballenbach Cal lenbach of the poultry husbandry department conducted the project in operation cooperation co with the pennsylvania board of game commissioners sio ners the investigation included artificial methods of propagation tor for rearing the pheasants it was found that ring necked pheasant eggs can be hatched satisfactorily in modern artificial incubators the best results were obtained when the eggs 1 were incubated for elgh eighteen teen days fit at relatively high humidity in an agi bated air or forced draft incubator and then were hatched in a separate sectional still air incubator Ring necked pheasant chicks were brooded blooded satisfactorily in colony houses with attached wire floored sun porches after the chicks reached six weeks of age they needed more room battery brooding proved unsatisfactory be cause of excessive mortality and poor feather development better early growth of ring necked pheasant chicks was obtained on rations of higher protein content than those used for chicks of the domestic fowl the best growth and feathering a and the greatest teed feed consumption pe per r chicks were obtained through the use of a ration analyzing approximately 28 per cent protein |