Eggs eor Hatching.—The eggs to.be chosen for hatching should be round, not pointed, symmetrical, and without any apparent blemish. They are best from a hen, between one and two years old which, has been running with a cockerel. The eggs cannot be too fresh, and should not exceed three weeks old. Those which are the most fresh generally produce the finest and healthiest chickens. The eggs should be examined by an oonoscope, or by being surrounded with any opaque substance, so that the light of thelsuri or a caudle can be shown through them, and if perfectly transparent they are-fresh, but it does not follow that they are fertile.- At the expiration of five or six days the- egg. should be again placed iu the:oonoscope,.examined against the light, arid, if still .clear, they . should be taken trour the nest, as they will, nothatch.. Thus more chance is given for the othe s. The old-fashioned number of eggs fpr a nest is thirteen-.. At all tiinds,!eleven is enough, and in cold, weather frorii seven to nine. Tuere is probably luck in odd numbers, so we will not disturb it. Whatever . tends to warmth and nourishment in chickens helps their growth and strength. It is. manifestly better, to have ta. few fine : birds, either for table or for exhibition, than a crowd of starvlirigs. On or about, the twenty-first day hatching .will 'begin. • Watch the nest : narrowly from time-.to . time removo the shells as the little chicks come out, but leave them:with the mother; If some weakly bird Bhows a difficulty in breaking through the membrane; which lines the shell, as was. the -mase with a vast number of birds this year, take a pair of: fine pair of scissors and-carefully cut up towards the large eud of the; egg, as in-the , other direction it may oause death. The bird vyill then, in a short time,: free itself. Occasionally it may be, necessary:to ascepr: tain, if possible, the point at which, the bird is tapping, unable ,to ,< make the .first .breach in. the shell. By the ear and by holding ’the egg up to -strong light you - may; possibly .find this/. ,If you, can geutly break the .'shell in that spot, pick it away carefully in sraall piepes,; and after, a,Jittle;, time, if the membrane cannot. ; he broken oy the: bird, cut ..that: alspilslighliyS, and mosticarefully. . Having.: removed aUihe. shella from the leave the . chicks for : twenty-four ' hours ; - mthf ; .mother. Abpye all; things, do notiet iyour- serrahts' .tear. ott.the little horny lump on the beak,,. meam: .or - give beer ,ahdl pepercorns j. for, pimento *eady,'drifid> i%" bw; x ; ft
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 42, 14 October 1867, Page 251
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