60 EGGS AND POULTRY 
A commercial hover is placed in the center 
of the floor. After being warmed up and 
after you have put in 2 or 3 inches of chaffy 
hay and seed and sand for scratching litter 
the house will be ready to receive the little 
chicks, three weeks or so old from the out- 
door brooder. A feed trough, a water pan, 
anda hopper should be in each house. Thus 
the chicks are housed for any kind of 
weather. 
Commercial hovers used in 6x6 colony houses. These 
may also be substituted for the hovers of more com- 
plicated construction in the brooder house. 
Should the weather be cold or rainy, the 
front window can be closed. The glass win- 
dow will furnish light so the chicks can work 
in the litter for feed, and there will be plenty 
of space to accommodate them. If on the 
