) (cont.) 
 
1892-93 
P. 8 
 
1) Taken from hen immediately, put in feather-lined 
basket - ants' eggs given - next morning between 
6:30 and 8 o'clock birds taken out and smuggled 
into settings of chicks of same age, 3-4 of those 
batched at home pro wild setting. Chick will at 
first fear hen, but she will take it for her own 
and adoption is complete after 15 minutes. 
2) More difficult and less successful. Must not be 
kept among domestic fowl. Greatest freedom. Many 
will die before fledged. 
Method 1) much better than 2) 
Predatory animals must be kept down. 
Proper proportion of sexes kept - (1:6). Too many 
coocks harmful.