The Farm.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 51, 17 March 1894, Page 6

The Farm.

A‘ FOSTER-MOTHER FOR INCUBATED CHICKENS. ’The following illustration, for which the Sydney Town and Country Journal is indebted to Mr J. J. Roche, Bay View, shows a device used by him as a foster-mother for incubated chickens. Mr Roche, who has had this mother in use for some time, and with excellent results, says : “I am sure it is the most useful and cheapest foster-mother in use. I got the tanks made to order by a plumber, and when they are filled with hot water the temperature in the mother is between B(Meg. and 90deg., and they will not require re-filling for 12hrs. in winter. I have worked this foster-mother very successfully for four years. It saves the expense of burning oil and the trouble of attending to lamps, which is a great consideration, and the loss and anxiety of getting your chickens burned is also avoided.” For a mild temperature like Australia, the hot water tank plan is undoubtedly superior to the method of burning lamps necessary in a cold country.

(AA, ■wire netting Hn. mesli, resting on ends of box, with strips of flannel hanging to within lin. of the bottom. B, openings for chicks of ducklings to run into yards, which may be covered at night with wire netting to keep rats, &c., out, at the same tipie admitting air and light. Box dimensions : Length, 22in. ; width, 14in. ; depth, 12in. Tanks, I2in. wide.)