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5. Providing for abundance of sunlight 



Sunlight gives good cheer, adds warmth, kills the germs of disease, 

 keeps the litter dry, and provides light for the chicks to hunt for food 

 in the litter early in the morning and late in the afternoon. The two 

 large windows in the front give about i sq. ft. of glass to every 10 sq. 

 ft. floor area. This light is down on the floor near the chick, which 

 is most desirable. 



Poultry-netting wire screen should be placed inside the windows if they 

 swing outward, to prevent the chickens escaping or marauders enter- 

 ing when the glass 

 windows are open, as 

 they should be most 

 of the time. 



6. Providing room for 

 the attendant to work 

 inside the house 



The house described 

 (Fig. 87) furnishes suf- 

 ficient head room so 

 that the work can 

 be done inside by the 

 attendant during 

 stormy or severely 

 cold weather. This is a 

 great advantage when 

 compared with the 

 type of outdoor 

 brooder in which the cover must be raised in order to feed and water 

 the chicks or to clean the brooder, — a system which has the ad- 

 ditional disadvantages of allowing a large volume of heat to escape 

 when the cover is lifted and of permitting the chickens to fly out. 

 A house of the size and style shown is convenient for doing the 

 work. The entire floor space is available, accessible, and easily 

 cleaned. The hover is against the rear wall, easily raised and 

 fastened, or removed. It is high enough at the entrance in the 

 center of the house to enable the attendant to stand erect when 

 walking from front to rear and caring for the brooder, and he can 

 reach to either side without inconvenience in attending to the chickens 

 on the floor. 



Fig. 87. — The latest style of "A"-shaped colony 

 brooder-house 



