. Biggle poultry book; a concise and practical treatise on the management of farm poultry. all heat in theday-time and during warm nights. Manufacturers are prone to rate the capacity oftheir brooders too high. A brood of fifty is largeenough no matter what the capacity of the broodermay be. Broods of one hundred can be handled untila month old, but after this stage is reached such a flockoutgrows the largest single brooder or harm is done by the common practice of put-ting large numbers together. Each brood of fifty chicks should have an outsiderun of not less than one hundred
. Biggle poultry book; a concise and practical treatise on the management of farm poultry. all heat in theday-time and during warm nights. Manufacturers are prone to rate the capacity oftheir brooders too high. A brood of fifty is largeenough no matter what the capacity of the broodermay be. Broods of one hundred can be handled untila month old, but after this stage is reached such a flockoutgrows the largest single brooder or harm is done by the common practice of put-ting large numbers together. Each brood of fifty chicks should have an outsiderun of not less than one hundred square feet in whichto exercise until a month old. After this age theyshould have free range. There are many kinds of brooders, some warmedby hot air, others by hot water; some furnish bottomheat, others top heat, and still others diffuse a currentof warm air from the center of the latter is shown in Figure are built for indoor and others foroutdoor use ; a double outdoor brooderis shown in Figure 2. In raising largenumbers, single brooders in separate buildings are. P::§f 46 BIGGIE POULTRY BOOK. used by some, while others prefer long houses con-taining many apartments, with an individual brooderin each. In these long houses some employ a green-house heating apparatus, warming the brooders by asystem of hot-water pipes. On general principles it may be said that bottomheat is practicable in mild weather only, when littleartificial heat is required. Top heat, such as is obtainedby radiation from a tank of hot water overhead, is un-natural and gives good results only when the tank is narrow and so placed as to prevent crowding intocorners under it. Thesystem nearest to natureis that which tempers theFigZ~ floor and the whole atmos- phere of the brooder and gives off the greatest amountof warmth either by radiation, or by diffusing a currentof warm pure air from the center. It may be said in favor of long brooder housescontaining many apartments that they are ec
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