74 ARTIFICIAL BROODING 



an outdoor heated brooder for indoor use. These 

 things must all be taken into consideration when 

 the equipment is obtained. 



One of the late inventions along this line is a 

 portable hover which can be used in a warm room 

 during the early part of the season, and as weather 

 conditions improve it can be installed in a colony 

 house or some other unheated building. I believe 

 that this style of hover will be popular, as it can 

 be moved from place to place as occasion demands, 

 necessitating only one style of equipment for both 

 indoor and outdoor use. 



Before taking the chicks from the incubator and 

 placing them in the brooder it is advisable to operate 

 the latter for a day or two, so as to have it heated 

 up and properly regulated at about 90 degrees. 

 When the chicks are then put in the temperature is 

 bound to rise, and care should then be taken that 

 it does not go much above 98 degrees, which 

 temperature may be retained for the first week. 

 The second week the temperature should be reduced 

 to about 90 degrees, the third week to 85, and after 

 that about 80 degrees as long as the chicks need 

 brooding. An outdoor brooder will need to be regu- 

 lated with weather conditions; cold nights should 

 be especially guarded against. 



Chicks not supplied with the proper amount of 

 artificial heat will crowd, no matter how few are 

 placed in the brooder. It is instinctive for them 



