FROM INCUBATOR TO BROODER 



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Another Homemade Brooder — This brooder has a 

 heater four feet long, one foot wide and six inches high. 

 The top is covered with zinc nailed on tightly. There is 

 no bottom except over one-third of the back end. The 

 front has a sliding door with a window to look at the 

 lamp. The inside of the sides is lined with tin, and 

 the chimney hole is one inch from the bottom in the 

 middle of the back, and is for a tin pipe one and three- 

 eighths inches in diameter. The heater is shown in 



FIG 86: DIAGRAM OF BROODER 



Figure 86, giving a bottom view without the sliding 

 door in front, and with boards one foot wide nailed on 

 the top through the zinc. 



Figure 87 gives a top view of the same after strips 

 two inches wide have been fitted in at each end of the 

 zinc to make a level surface all around the edge. Next 

 nail strips, also two inches wide, all around the edge, 

 except at the corner opening one and one-half 



