PERMANENT BROODER HOUSES 



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fOR EITHER CHICK5 OH DUCKLINGS 

 UNDERNEATH PIPING SYSTEM 



ELEVATION PLAN. 



Section showing 

 Hoi/er Construction 

 and location of Pipes. 



Passage UUy 3ft wide. 



Ground Plan. 



FIG. 144 PLANS' FOR PIPE HEATED BROODER HOUSE WITH PIPES UNDER FLOOR 



This illustration shows part of front 'elevation, cross section, floor plan, and isometric view of hover. See ac- 

 companying text for key to letters used in isometric, and for general description. 



taken out and the litter swept into the aisle and taken 

 away in barrels. When the little chicks are to be changed 

 from pen to pen, the back boards are taken out and they 

 are driven down the aisles from one pen to another, in 

 the long end of the house these are 4 feet wide and the 

 hover 8 inches high, but otherwise are the same as the 

 short end. The illustration shows a hover closed, one 

 with the top partly cut away and one with the top off and 

 the back out, ready for cleaning. 



The hot air is admitted to the hovers through the up- 

 light 1%-inch pipes seen in the lower floor. These pipes 

 reach nearly to the underside of the house and the lower- 

 ends just reach through the board floor, being flush with 

 the under side. Back of each second hover (on the divis- 

 ion post, so as to be out of the way) is a 2x3 air box 

 which reaches down under the side and permits the cold 

 air to enter the trench. This gives a chance for the 

 warm air in the trench to rise through the short, upright 

 pipes under the hover while cold air is drawing from the 

 aisle, making a perfect circulation. The warm air strikes 

 the hover and, deflecting, makes the entire hover space 

 warm, but does not expose the chick to drafts or to direct 

 heat. The sliding two-piece hover-top permits of ventil- 

 ation and the escape of surplus heat at the will of the 

 operator. For the older chicks no curtain is supplied for 

 the hover front, which is left entirely open. 



MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR 10O-FOOT HOUSE 



Sills, 12 pieces, 3 by 4, 18 feet: 2 pieces, 3 by 4 14 feet. 

 Plates, 12 pieces, 2 by 4, 18 feet: 2 pieces, 2 by 4, 14 feet. 

 Studs, (10 feet to enters), 11 pieces, 2 by 4, 6 feet 3 inches; 



30 pieces, 2 by 3, 4 feet 1 inches. 

 Grits, 10 pieces, 2 by 3, 12 feet. 

 Rafters, 51 pieces, 2 by 4, 16 feet. 



Extra for slides, door frames, etc., 8 pieces, 2 by 3, 16 feet. 

 Rafter ties, 49 pieces, 1 by 6, 7 feet. 

 Boards, outside, 700 feet 14-feet, 2300 feet 16-feet: inside. 



524 feet: total, plain, 3524 feet; matched, 900; if ceiled 



inside add 2400 feet. 



Board up and down, roof lengthwise. 

 Paper, roof, 1500 feet; balrvnce 1400 feet. 

 Doors, three 3 by 6 feet 6 inches, one 2 by 5. 

 Wire netting to suit use, 1-inch mesh. 



HOVER WORK 



Sills, 12 pieces, 2 by 6, 16 feet. 



Floor, 300 feet, 12 feet. 



Covers, divisions and back, matched 500 feet, 12 feet. 



Pen division boards, 14 pieces, 1 by 12, 16 feet. 



Windows, 14 12-light, 9 by 13; 6 rear windows 6-light, 9 by 



13; 2 end windows, 6-light, 9 by 13. 

 Cement floor under all, 1300 feet. 



Pit wall 18 inches, 5 by 8 feet, 5 feet deep, pointed. 

 Walk across pit and stairs, 5 pieces, 2 by 6, 16 feet. 

 Heating and piping to suit. 



COMBINATION HOT WATER AND COLONY 

 HOVER BROODER HOUSE 



Front Section Heated By Hot Water Pipes Underneath 



Floor. Rear Section Accommodates Several 



Colony Hovers. 



The semi-monitor roof brooder house, shown in Fig. 

 145, was designed by J. W. Parks, the well-known breeder 

 of Barred Plymouth Rocks, after a careful study of 

 brooder-house construction in general and his own special 

 requirements in particular. It has been in use on his poul- 

 try plant for the past few years with complete success. It 

 is unique in brooder-house construction in that it utilizes 

 both the hot water and colony hover brooding systems, 

 one helping out the other to some extent and thus, it is 

 believed, getting the best results from each. 



The house is 65 feet lony'and 28 feet wide. Both front 

 and rear walls are five feet high from sills to eaves and 

 the front of the rear section is 11 feet high. The house is 

 divided lengthwise in the center, the front part being 

 equipped with a water boiler and a coil of heating pipes. 

 A space about 5x10 feet is occupied by the boiler and coal 

 bin, the boiler standing in a three-foot pit. The outside 



