. The chick book. Poultry. tlome-mide Brood Box, home-made Brooder Coop. the chicks to scratch in. Next to these yards I have a grass run, and as soon as the chicks have been in the house a few days I give them full range, always feeding and watering them in the yard or house. They soon get used to the place and will go in and out themselves. In this house I place a home made brood box about three by three feet, and two feet high. At the side of the box down near the bottom I make a small door for the chicks to run in and out. The top I use as a door, hung on leather hinges, with a small pane
. The chick book. Poultry. tlome-mide Brood Box, home-made Brooder Coop. the chicks to scratch in. Next to these yards I have a grass run, and as soon as the chicks have been in the house a few days I give them full range, always feeding and watering them in the yard or house. They soon get used to the place and will go in and out themselves. In this house I place a home made brood box about three by three feet, and two feet high. At the side of the box down near the bottom I make a small door for the chicks to run in and out. The top I use as a door, hung on leather hinges, with a small pane of glass in it to admit light. This lid I raise and lower for venti- lation. In the center of the box I place a wire screen about the size of a peck measure, and the first night or two, or any night that the weather should be cold, so that there might be danger of the chicks crouching or piling up, I place a lantern in this center screen. When my second hatch of one hundred and one chicks were three weeks old I took them out of my brooder again to make room for the third hatch, which I found this time to be one hundred and two chicks from one hundred and nineteen eggs. The second hatch of one hundred and one I put in the other half of the brood house and handled them the same as the first lot. I found when I took the second lot to the brood house at three weeks old that I had lost two chicks, leaving ninety-nine strong, healthy chicks. The two hatches that I put in the brood house ware put in the last of April and the first of May, and until the time of this writing (July 12th) I have lost but one chick. The third hatch of one hundred and two chicks at three weeks old I took out of the brooder again to make room for the fourth hatch, which proved to be one hundred chicks from one hundred and twenty eggs. The third hatch of one hundred and two and all chicks hatched at this time of year at three weeks old I put out- side in a home-made brood coop made three feet wide, five feet
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