This book is a comprehensive guide to artificial incubation and chicken-rearing. It describes in detail the use of Hearson's Patent Champion Incubator, a popular device used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to hatch chicken eggs. The book includes practical instructions for operating the incubator, as well as advice on caring for chicks and managing a successful poultry operation. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of poultry farming or for those who want to raise chickens. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This is a 1928 guide to incubating and brooding chickens. Written with the beginner in mind, it simply explains each step of the processes with the aid of photographs and diagrams, making it ideal for modern readers with a practical interest in keeping chickens and other poultry. Contents Include: “Replacing the Flock", "Incubation", "Time to hatch", "Sanitation in incubation", "Selecting hatching eggs", "Hatching with hens", "Hatching with incubators", "Increasing demand for day-old chicks", "Brooding"", "Sanitation in brooding", "Brooding chickens with hens", "Artificial brooding", "Brooder houses", "Brooding chicks in confinement", "Battery brooding", "Necessary precautions", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on poultry farming.