CHICKEN HATCHING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 151, 20 March 1908, Page 2

CHICKEN HATCHING.

' MOISTURE IN-INCUBATORS, i , : Experiments ,at ; Utah' Station (America) as to the effect of dry 1 or moist incubators upon , the numbers and vigour of .the. chickens hatched showed:— . ■ x ' That nearly 100 per cent, .better , hatches .. were obtained in all tho - .tests by the use of 'moisture.. .; . :. ; U, i Tliat' incubators' with a humidity, of oidcg. gave, chickens which weighed oil averago^of: ' l,lß4cz..each; in a medium-moisbure: incuba-r tor, 1.1590z.; and in tho " no-moisture.lVin-: : cubators, containing 51deg. ■ humidity, 1.0720z. v ~ , Tho'.freight of a hen-hatched chick .-was ~ i.assQz. 1 -' 1 .■■ V''-' v ' ■ The conclusion arrived at was that vigour in the phicks demands a greater amount of moisture dining inoubatioli' than the incu- . bator, as .at.present made, can famish.' 1 ., .. ' More ,eggs,,w'ere.remoyedvwith dead geriiis . from the; ary-'injpub'ators than from the moist. The evaporation from the eggs iiicubators with.th,einaxinViim nioisturo liras 12.28 percent;, in,those, with,'medium' moisture 14,05 per cent., apcl- in thoso with, no, supplied ■ moisturo-'17.78 pep cent. .• • , hen trays ur-moist sand were used; tho Evaporation froni tlje eggs was only 12.5J8, aa against 16.1? when,'trays of water wero used. This show3,that sand is a better evapo . rator. of water itself.