Archive image from page 36 of The Curtiss poultry book $100,000. The Curtiss poultry book. $100,000 a year from poultry; being a complete and accurate account of the great plant and present successful methods of and Curtiss, operating the Niagara poultry farm of Ransomville, , largest general poultry enterprise in the world curtisspoultrybo00boye Year: 1911 ( CURTISS POULTRY BOOK. 35 This second floor brooding house will hold 8,000 chicks at one time. On the outside of each brooding pen is erected a four-foot run, enclosed' with wire netting. This run is practically a platform e
Archive image from page 36 of The Curtiss poultry book $100,000. The Curtiss poultry book. $100,000 a year from poultry; being a complete and accurate account of the great plant and present successful methods of and Curtiss, operating the Niagara poultry farm of Ransomville, , largest general poultry enterprise in the world curtisspoultrybo00boye Year: 1911 ( CURTISS POULTRY BOOK. 35 This second floor brooding house will hold 8,000 chicks at one time. On the outside of each brooding pen is erected a four-foot run, enclosed' with wire netting. This run is practically a platform erected on the style of a roof garden, and so arranged that the chicks can at any time get out of doors into the open air and sunshine. All the windows open from bottom out, and are fastened by a long, iron rod. The sash swinging out acts as a shield in case of rain storms,- and at the same time the chicks are not deprived of the fresh air. The young are kept in the heated brooders for from one to three- weeks, according to the condition of the weather, and then they are- trained to use the fireless brooders. This is done by placing a fireless- brooder in the run of the heated brooder, up near the hover, and putting: a board on each side of the brooder so the chicks cannot pass back to- where there is heat. Being at practically the same spot to which they had become accustomed, they gradually learn to enter. In a few days- there is no more trouble, and the chicks go over to the cold brooder. After making repeated experiments, Niagara Farm has learned the lesson that not only will three-fourths of the labor be saved, but the mortality will be considerably reduced by putting the chicks under heat for the first week or so of their life. There is nothing to prevent them from crowding, should they not be comfortable, and the newly-hatched chick, like the new-born babe, requires warmth more than it does food. When given this heat in the start, by the time they are removed to the firel
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