. The chick book. Poultry. 3G THE CHICK BOOK Some of our hens take their broods fully a quarter of a mile from their coops every day, and in this way teach them to hustle for themselves. Nothing will develop a Barred Rock cockerel's muscle and make his bones grow like clias- ing grasshoppers through a cornfield. It answers the same purpose as foot-ball for a boy. When the hens begin to wean their chicks, great care must be exercised to prevent crowding in the coops at night, as several broods will often be found in one box. If they are not separated, crooked tails, twisted wings and small, stu
. The chick book. Poultry. 3G THE CHICK BOOK Some of our hens take their broods fully a quarter of a mile from their coops every day, and in this way teach them to hustle for themselves. Nothing will develop a Barred Rock cockerel's muscle and make his bones grow like clias- ing grasshoppers through a cornfield. It answers the same purpose as foot-ball for a boy. When the hens begin to wean their chicks, great care must be exercised to prevent crowding in the coops at night, as several broods will often be found in one box. If they are not separated, crooked tails, twisted wings and small, stunted chicks will be the result. I believe crowding and overheating in the coop or brooder to be the cause of more poor chickens, more crooked, de- formed birds, more attaeks of roup and other conUgioiis diseases, than all other causes combined. We do not intend to allow more than ten or twelve chickens in one coop, no matter how large it may be, and as soon as possible teach them to roost, as they are less liable to crowd and pile up in a heap on the roost than in a coop. For this purpose we use a weaning coop, or colony house, set up from the ground, into which we move our growing chicks as soon as they evince a desire to fly upon the top of their small coops at night. M. S. GARDNER. HOW I MANAGE SITTING HENS, A Well Known Breeder Tells How tie Has Reduced to a Minimum the Work of Hatching with Hens, By Dr. H. F. Ballard. TO BEGIN with, breeders of Asiatics should have, or at least they like to have some early sitters. To have early sitters we must have early layers. To have early layers we must begin to feed for eggs early, say January 1. Then if you get a few hens to start the in- cubating fever in February you have done well. I aim to. set every hen that goes to sitting early, and I do not wait tor two hens to sit at a time so early in the season. I have an old shed barn in which I set all my hens, and they are never allowed outside of the barn from the day they are set unt
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