. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . Fig. 5. Floor plan of brooder. For further explanation see text. have to be handled about so much every season constitutes alabor leak, which on a large plant operating 50 to 100 broodersis considerable in amount. In view of these considerations it was decided in the hatch-ing season of 1909 to begin some experiments looking towardan improvement in the brooders used for rearing the chickens 32 METHODS OF POULTRY MANAGEMENT. at this Station. At first some- different types of commercialbrooders were tested. The results, however, were
. Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station . Fig. 5. Floor plan of brooder. For further explanation see text. have to be handled about so much every season constitutes alabor leak, which on a large plant operating 50 to 100 broodersis considerable in amount. In view of these considerations it was decided in the hatch-ing season of 1909 to begin some experiments looking towardan improvement in the brooders used for rearing the chickens 32 METHODS OF POULTRY MANAGEMENT. at this Station. At first some- different types of commercialbrooders were tested. The results, however, were not satis-factory. Before the hatching season of 19lo it was decided totry on an experimental scale a brooder devised to overcomethe objections mentioned above to brooders of the type for-merly used. The results obtained were strikingly favorable to. Fig. 6. Showing brooder installed and ready for operation. the new brooders. In this bulletin is given a detailed descrip-tion of this brooder, together with working plans so that anypoultryman can construct one for his if he cares to doso. The advantages which have been found to accrue from theuse of this brooder at the Maine Station fall into two generalcategories. The first of these is that it is possible to rear inthis brooder a larger number of chickens in proportion to thenumber originally put in than in any other brooder with whichthe Station has had any experience. That is, the mortalityrate of chicks raised in this brooder, is relatively low, particu-larly as compared with brooders of the old type. Furthermore Maine; agricultural experiment station. 33 not only do the chicks Hve better in this new brooder but also,according to our experience, those which do live grow betterand are thriftier than those raised in the other type of second advantage lies in th
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