84 POULTRY APPLIANCES AND HANDICRAFT 



newing every week. The metal floor should project 

 outside the box as shown by c and be nailed down 

 firmly. This will prevent any odor from the lamp 

 entering the chicken room, a. At c? is the front of the 

 brooder and it is made of a strip of heavy flannel or 

 felt and hangs to the floor from the ceiling of the en- 

 trance to the little chamber. There should be small 

 slits made in the flannel but not extending too far up, 

 though every third or fourth cut may be longer than 

 the others. This keeps out the cold and makes the 

 room dark. 



The platform e outside the brooder is two and one- 

 half by three feet, which will be ample room until the 

 chickens are a week old. It is hinged to the brooder 

 and the board / is hinged to the platform so as to keep 

 it level while the chickens are using it. When a larger 

 room is required, / can be folded under e, and e be- 

 comes an incline to a larger pen. b is the lower part of 

 the brooder in which a small hand lamp is placed to 

 heat it and several inch auger holes should be bored in 

 the sides of b to supply fresh air and enable the lamp 

 to burn, g indicates the iron floor whose edges project 

 and are nailed down, h is a smaller piece of metal at- 

 tached to it underneath, and about half the size of the 

 floor. It must not strike the floor at any point, but 

 preserve an air space one-half inch between it and the 

 floor, so as to take the first heat from the lamp and dis- 

 perse it evenly over the floor that supports the sand on 

 which the chickens stand. If this be omitted the lamp 

 will make the sand floor hot in one spot and not warm 

 enough in another. Too much heat is worse than cold 

 for young chickens. 



A window brooder is described as follows by F. J. 

 Sheldon, Hartford county, Connecticut : "A box with 

 a side or top wide enough to occupy a window, say 

 three feet square and one and one-half feet deep, is 



