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ments. You can buy ordinary hovers from any good incubator fac- 

 tory, such as they use in their indoor and outdoor brooders. It is not 

 necessary to buy the entire brooder, but simply buy the hover and 

 the fixtures and arrange the hovers in the rear of your colony brooder 

 house, as is shown in the diagram. 



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Figure 3. 



In the front of the house are two small doors for chickens; also, 

 one window 2x4 feet. This window opening is covered with wire 

 netting and has a cloth curtain to be lowered during bad weather. 



The door for the attendant is at the end, and during warm 

 weather is to be replaced with a frame door covered with wire netting, 

 to make house cooler. 



The small doors in the front are made to hook on the inside and 

 the large door to be locked by attendant on his last trip at night. 



The house is to be built with floor and on skids, so that it can be 

 easily moved from place to place. I would have a solid board par- 

 tition, two feet high and eight feet long, with hooks on each end, 

 that would fasten to the front and back walls of the house, dividing 

 the interior into two parts, each four feet by eight feet. This could 

 be easily stepped over by attendant and would be used when chicks 

 were first placed in colony houses. A brooder and its flock could be 

 placed on each side and the temporary yard divided through the 

 center, would be arranged on outside of house. This yard would be 

 made by taking two feet small mesh wire netting and weaving small 

 iron rods through it every three feet and pushing sharpened ends of 

 rods into the ground as temporary posts. 



As soon as chicks were accustomed to new quarters, remove par- 

 tition and temporary wire fence. There are no roosts in colony house. 



