How To Hatch Brood Feed And Prevent Chicks

Author : Mrs. Rebecca Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332141364
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book How to Hatch, Brood, Feed and Prevent Chicks written by Mrs. Rebecca Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How to Hatch, Brood, Feed and Prevent Chicks: From Dying in the Shell To the Reader: I will tell you how I came to write this book. About twenty-two years ago I became dissatisfied with the slow way of raising chickens with hens. I had read that chicks could be hatched by artificial incubation, but I had never seen an incubator, and knew nothing of the natural laws of incubation, but if one wants to learn they must investigate, so I went to work. I placed a thermometer under a setting hen every day for three weeks and found first the temperature at which she kept her eggs each day during the whole hatch. The hen from which I was taking lessons I set on the porch near the window, where I was doing my spring sewing. I watched her closely that I might know how many times she turned her eggs during the day. She turned them about every four hours. I did the same for a while, but soon found it was not necessary. After I had found the proper temperature at which to keep the eggs during incubation, and also how often to turn them, I commenced the construction of an incubator. I used two dry goods boxes, one of which had served me as a wood box for several years. One box was a little larger than the other. I placed the smaller one inside the larger, and filled the space with sawdust. I thought it had to be thick so it would retain the heat. That was not a bad idea, either. I made a hot air space at the top and bottom. I thought the eggs should have heat from above and below., Then I put pipes through it and heated it with lamps just about the same as the modern hot air machines are heated today. It was a rude concern but it hatched chicks just the same. After the thermometer registered 102 degrees, I placed the eggs in my new machine and kept the temperature at the same point each day for three weeks, just the same as the hen did, with the result that I hatched 108 chicks from 116 eggs. I did not test any out. I did not know enough about such aft airs at that time. I had six ventilators in the top and six in the bottom. After awhile I saw where I could make an improvement in my machine. I went to work and made a new one, and then another, and so on until I had made nine. Each machine was an improvement over the other. I made my own brooder also. Here is where goods boxes played an important part again. I put sheet iron in for a floor and placed a lamp under it to keep the chicks warm. Now with my home-made incubators and brooders I have raised as many as twenty-six hundred chicks in one year, and seldom less than fifteen hundred. Well, my success got into the papers. Sometimes good things were printed as well as bad things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.