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A brooder set out of doors is all right in summer 

 but it is no place to put a lot of chickens in during the 

 changeable weather of early spring. It will pay to 

 have a cheap house in which to put the brooders or a 

 shed that can be closed in during stormy weather. 

 The advantage of a small house is that the brooder 

 can be kept at a more uniform temperature, but even 

 more than this it provides a place of exercise for the 

 chickens during long continuous storms which fre- 

 quently last two or three days in early spring. 



A continuous house should be twelve to fourteen 

 feet wide and of any length desired. It should have 



FIG. 75 — SJDEHILL BROODER HOUSE 



an alleyway three feet wide and six and one-half feet 

 high at the back for convenience in doing the work. 

 This house may be fitted up with a hot water system 

 of brooders, or individual .brooders can be used. For 

 raising early broilers it is necessary that the house be 

 heated artificially. A small hot water boiler and a coil 

 of pipe going around the building inside the outer wall 

 is necessary. If the passageway is lowered twelve 

 to fifteen inches it will make less back-bending work 

 to care for the brooders, particularly if individual 

 brooders are used. The long slope of the roof should 

 be toward the front. Such a house is shown in Figure 

 72, which gives the dimensions and suggests details. 



