Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business . size, the size of the pen is increased. The brooder, as may be seen in Fig. 2, consists of boardsnailed together with cleats, which rest on four hot-water the brooder house at Hammonton strips of carpet are sus- The pipes should be three inches from the floor for the pended from each side of the brooder, and also between thepipes,
Successful poultry keeping : a text book for the beginner and for all persons interested in better poultry and more of it--contains the "secrets of success" both for pleasure and profit--new and valuable information on all branches of the poultry business . size, the size of the pen is increased. The brooder, as may be seen in Fig. 2, consists of boardsnailed together with cleats, which rest on four hot-water the brooder house at Hammonton strips of carpet are sus- The pipes should be three inches from the floor for the pended from each side of the brooder, and also between thepipes, nailed to the under side, with the fringed edges of caipet(double or single), just high enough so the chick can feel it onits back, and here is where they like to hover. It will be observed that the pens grow larger towards theend away from the heater. The first young chicks are placedin pens A to G, to be followed by the next new hatch, and theseearlier chicks are removed to larger pens. This shifting frompen to pen goes on until the house is full. The chicks that haveprogressed by successive stages to pens Iv, L and M are fit forbroilers, and are marketed as fast as they are ready. The chickshave grown and need the larger pens to accommodate FIG. 2-HAMMONTON BROODING HOUSEsmallest chicks, and from five to seven inches from the floor for the largest, having a uniformly upward slant from pen A to penM. The brooder tops are twenty inches wide, and should lieined with paper on the under side. They are movable, eachbrooder top extending the width of the pens only. It is custo-mary to enclose a room of suitable size at the entrance of the brooder house, where the incubators are kept. The chicks canthus be transferred to the brooder without inconvenience. These pipes are fed with hot water from a stove or furnacelocated in an excavation at the A end o£ lrkr. 1. Hi. hot watercirculates to and fro through a coil of pipes. The brick foun-dations are a protection against rats, m
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