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FIRST LESSOXS IX POULTRY KEEPING. 



This house is only 3 ft. high at 

 the plate 011 south (front) side, and 

 5 ft. from the level of the pen floors 

 to the apex of the roof. The floor 

 of the passage in the rear of the 

 pens is excavated to a depth of 2 

 ft. 



The width of the house is 14 ft., 

 the length of each pen being 10 ft., 

 and the inside width of the walk 

 3 ft. 9 in. Each pen is 5 ft. wide, 

 and is lighted by a half window (6 

 lights, 9 x 12) in the middle of the 

 front of the pen. 



To support the roof and carry 

 Ground Plan and Cross Section Brooder House at Lone Oak Poultry Farm. tne partitions between the pens 

 there are two upright pieces of 2x3 scantling for each partition; one at the passage, going from the floor 

 of the passage to* the apex of the roof, and one a litlle forward of the middle of the house, which goes 

 from the floor of the pens to the roof. Partitions between pens are of solid boards 2 ft. high. The 8 in. 

 board extending from the passage half way forward is not a part of partition, but a board used to put 

 across pens to keep small chicks close to the hover. 



The real trouble here, as so many places in poultry keeping, was false economy, the desire to 

 keep close to the limit. Poultrymen put more chicks than they should in a brooder, then tried 

 to keep the brooder warm through extreme cold weather with a heater only equal to heating it 

 in ordinary cold weather. They have learned now that it is easier and cheaper to use a heater 

 that will do the ordinary work required of it without working near up to its capacity than to 

 try to get the results by overworking a smaller heater. 



In designs for continuous brooder houses, there has been variety without end. Almost 

 every model of a continuous laying house, except the scratching shed and full monitor top 

 plans, I have seen in brooder 

 houses and these may 

 have been used. The pre- 

 vailing style, however, i s 

 the plain long house with 

 double pitched roof, and the 

 types of this style of house 

 d o not vary strikingly i n 

 appearance or construction. 

 Some are full hHght (about 

 6 ft.) at the sides. Others 

 are built lower, the front 

 wall being not more than 

 three and a half to four feet - 



high, and the rear wall a II |) 



foot or so high. In such a 



house the walk is excavated " '" " " 



to a sufficient depth to give Partition Between Pens and Passage in Lone Oak Farm brooder Home. 



plenty of head room over 

 it, while the rest of the 



This partition consists of two light frames for each pen covered with 

 inch mesh poultry wire, and hung on hinges. 



