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A Warning to Poultry men.... Cause of Roup in Young Stock.... 

 Raising Young Stock. 



The poultryman must be very careful about housing- 

 young" stock after they are six weeks old. They are out of 

 the brooder and need no more heat. Now, most breeders 

 put barrels and boxes all over the place for them, and thirty 

 to fifty crowd into one box or barrel. This is very danger- 

 ous. They sweat at night, come out in the wet dew and 

 cold air at four o'clock in the morning; they catch cold and 

 their eyes swell up; they get thin and make a noise in the 

 throat as if they had a frog in it. They die of consumption 

 because they are in a hot, tight box, and sweat all night, and 

 the air is not pure. They breathe in and out the same 

 breath, which causes weak lungs, consumption, colds and 

 roup. You must provide an open shed for them with roosts 

 and don't let them crowd all night. The open shed with an 

 open front and a good tight roof, is an ideal house for them, 

 and you will see the difference in stock. You will see them 

 grow like weeds. We make a combination roosting coop 

 and brooder for this purpose two floors, the first being" 

 eighteen inches high, and the second three feet high. On 

 the lower floor is a mother, the same as in a brooder, but 

 without any heat. This floor is for chicks when six weeks 

 old. They need no more heat when that age in the spring, 

 so they are put in this brooder underneath the coop. When 

 they are ten weeks old they are put up on the upper floor on 

 the roosts and slats placed over the doors to second floor to 

 prevent the older chicks going into the lower floor. You can 

 then put younger chicks in the lower floor again where the 

 round mother with the cloth is. If fifty chicks are put on 

 the lower floor their own animal heat will keep them warm, 

 and it is so arranged that the ventilation is perfect and the 

 chicks cannot sweat nor crowd. On the upper floor thirty 

 to forty chicks can roost with ease ; up to four months old 

 and after that thirty is plenty. That number can stay in the 

 coop until snow flies. You should have ten to forty of these 



