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POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES 

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FIG. 159 FLOOR PLAN OF BROODER ROOM IN COMBINATION INCUBATOR AND BROODER HOUSE 



As the manufacturers of the various mammoths on the 

 market usually supply incubator house plans free of charge 

 to their customers, it is not necessary to show detailed 

 drawings here. However, the requirements of mammoth 

 incubators generally do not vary in any essential respect 

 from lamp-heated machines. The house illustrated in 

 Figs. 153 to 156, with its dimensions modified to adapt it 

 to the kind and size of incubators to be installed, will 

 prove just as satisfactory for mammoths as for small 

 machines. There is no better means of ventilating any 

 incubator cellar than by providing a suitable number of 

 ventilating flues, installed as shown in Fig. 153. By 

 means of these, fresh air is discharged into the room at 

 the floor level and the foul air is discharged through ad- 

 justable window openings near the ceiling. 



As most of the work of filling sections, testing eggs, 

 etc., usually is done right in front of the machine, it is 

 especially convenient to have good, wide passageways so 

 there will be no interference with the work. A large 

 work table on small rubber-tired wheels will prove a great 

 time and labor saver. It also is desirable to have a room 

 at the front of the building where eggs for hatching can 

 be stored; also various articles of equipment that will be 

 needed in the regular daily care of the machine. This 

 should be partitioned off from the hatching room proper, 

 so that the temperature can be icgulated as desired. 



FIG. 160 COMBINATION INCUBATOR AND BROODER HOUSE 

 Photo from R. H. Loveland. 



COMBINATION INCUBATOR AND BROODER 



HOUSE 

 A Good Way to Build Where Chicks Are Raised in 



Large Numbers. 



The combination of incubator cellar and brooder 

 house is one that is popular with many, as it brings all 

 the hatching and. brooding work under one roof. The 

 house shown in Fig. 160 is of this type. It is in regular use 

 on the Fishing Creek Poultry Farm (Penna.), of which 

 R. H. Loveland is pioprietor. This house is 25x76 feet, 

 the basement is substantially constructed, with concrete 

 walls, and extends sufficiently above the ground level so 

 that it is well lighted and ventilated. The cellar is en- 

 tered through an enclosed vestibule and contains three 

 10,000 egg machines (one single and two double-decked). 

 The upper part of the house is used as a nursery for 

 chicks, where they have comfortable, convenient quarters 

 and where they remain until they are sold or have passed 

 the danger point, when they are placed out on range. 



The brooder room is equipped with a water-boiler, 

 the heating system consisting of six l^-inch overhead 

 hover pipes running the entire length of the house. These 

 are enclosed in a brooding-box 18 inches high and Z l / 2 feet 

 wide, with a curtain along the front, or the side next to 

 the runs. The flow pipes are next to the passageway and 

 the return pipes next to the hover curtain, which gives a 

 range of about 10 degrees under the 

 hover, enabling the chicks to find 

 just the temperature that suits them. 

 The heat is maintained at about 100 

 degrees in the warmest part under 

 the hover, for newly hatched chicks, 

 but close to the curtain it is not more 

 than 85 to 90. The floor plan of this 

 brooding room is shown in Fig. 159. 

 from which it will be seen that the 

 house pens are 6x17^ feet, affording 

 room for 300 chicks in each, though 

 400 may be accommodated when nec- 

 essary. The chicks are kept in this 

 brooder room about three weeks, 

 after which they are moved to colony 

 houses, so that they can get out on 

 the ground. As this building is lo- 

 cated it is not possible to have out- 

 door runs attached to it. 



In many respects this is an ideal 

 way in which to handle chicks in large 

 numbers, for the first three or four 

 weeks of their lives. 



