Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . r i Single House with Alley Between Brooders Fig, 179,—Floor plan of six incubator cellar and brooder houses. (Candee Incubator Co,) BEOODING 453 of the suns rays in destroying harmful bacteria not of soilsbacteria group. Each hover usually has a capacity of from fifty to seventy-five chicks. Hovers are of different types. The two general types arethe stationary and adjustable. The heat is conveyed lay waterin iron pipes in a box close to the floor and the pipes warm theair. Warmed air rises, and the chicks are always assured of a. Fig. 180.—The interio
Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . r i Single House with Alley Between Brooders Fig, 179,—Floor plan of six incubator cellar and brooder houses. (Candee Incubator Co,) BEOODING 453 of the suns rays in destroying harmful bacteria not of soilsbacteria group. Each hover usually has a capacity of from fifty to seventy-five chicks. Hovers are of different types. The two general types arethe stationary and adjustable. The heat is conveyed lay waterin iron pipes in a box close to the floor and the pipes warm theair. Warmed air rises, and the chicks are always assured of a. Fig. 180.—The interior of a oommoroial brooder house, showing compart-ments and runs. gentle, ever-changing, pure warm air. Three grades of heatare thus ensured—first, it is warmest under the hover, coolerbetween the hover and the partition, and cooler in the chickpens. Thus the chick is aUowed to get into the temperaturebest suited to him. The felt on the hover is slitted and thechick can readily go in and out. Having a small unit hover system chicks of different agescan be raised, as each size chicks must be kept by themselves. It is estimated that a 20-hover system house will need afloor space of 14 by 66 feet. 454 POULTRY CXTLTUEE Floor plans are given of the double and single brooder housesin Fig. 179. A double brooder house is usually 24 feet wide,with a central alley and a brooder system on each side. Adouble house is built to run north and south, so that the chicksin one side get the morning sun and on the other side the after-noon sun. A single brooder house is built east
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