. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... e from inside posts andmakes possible a view of the whole interior from anypart. The hover floor is 3 feet wide (the width of thetrench) and in the 3-foot pens the hover top slides oncleat (F) 6 inches from the floor. The top or cover isonly 24 inches wide, which leaves 12 inches of the slightlywarm floor in front of the hover curtain, making a splen-did resting place for the little chicks or ducklings, whichthey evidently enjoy. When first they are put in thehover, they are penned back nearly to this floor and thegentle warmth h
. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... e from inside posts andmakes possible a view of the whole interior from anypart. The hover floor is 3 feet wide (the width of thetrench) and in the 3-foot pens the hover top slides oncleat (F) 6 inches from the floor. The top or cover isonly 24 inches wide, which leaves 12 inches of the slightlywarm floor in front of the hover curtain, making a splen-did resting place for the little chicks or ducklings, whichthey evidently enjoy. When first they are put in thehover, they are penned back nearly to this floor and thegentle warmth helps them and keeps the floor free fromdampness. The cover being in two parts (A and B) andsliding freely on cleats (F), may readily be adjusted soas to give ventilation at the back, front or center of thehover, or all three, and the surplus heat may escape inthe same way. The hover floor is kept littered with chaff or shavingsand when the pen is to be cleaned, the hover top is re-moved, the back boaid, which sets between cleats, is PERMANENT BROODER HOUSES 75. FIG. 144—PLANS FOR PIPE HEATED BROODER HOUSE WITH PIPES UNDER FLOORillustration shows part ot front elevation, cross section, floor plan, and isometric view of liover. See ac-companying text for key to letters used in isometric, and for general description. taken out and the litter swept into the aisle and takenaway in barrels. When the little chicks are to be changedfrom pen to pen, the back boards are taken out and theyare driven down the aisles from one pen to another, inthe long end of the house these are 4 feet wide and thehover 8 inches high, but otherwise are the same as theshort end. The illustration shows a hover closed, onewith the top partly cut away and one with the top off andthe back out, ready for cleaning. The hot air is admitted to the hovers through the up-light lJ4-nch pipes seen in the lower floor. These pipesreach nearly to the underside of the house and the lowerends just reach through the board f
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