THE POULTRY INDUSTRY
INCUBATOR CHICKS. A NOVEL BUSINESS. -Y Wellington man whose home is in the suburbs is conducting a novel poultry* business —novel, that is, to this couu-, try though even here it has been clone. in ’a small neighbourly way. This j.« tho sale of chicks as they come from the incubator. The eggs» arc from biich of <»rcat egg-producing families of White Leghorns, so that the purchaser of chicks knows at once that he is securing profitable laying stock. The chicks arc sold at Is and if kept for a month, at Is Gd. To the suburban resident who wants a good pen of laying birds the arrangement is admirable. There is one gi'vat advantage in incubator chicks m tno they may bo relied on to be quite frer from vermin, and if properly looker after should grow into .sturdy stock. Las 4 year this incubator expert hatched out 1000 chickens and 300 ducklings. He has an up-to-date rearing plant, which includes three incubators.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6622, 11 September 1908, Page 3
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167THE POULTRY INDUSTRY New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6622, 11 September 1908, Page 3
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