BROODING AND REARING YOUNG STOCK 



every other pen there is a small door in the back of 

 the house to facilitate cleaning out the pens. A 

 window can be substituted for this door to good ad- 

 vantage as it makes the house lighter. 



Heating Apparatus. Heat is furnished by means 

 of a coal burning stove which heats water and 

 causes it to circulate through pipes run the length 

 of the house. The heater must always be placed 

 in the windward end of the building as otherwise 

 it is hard to get the heat down to the other end as 

 the wind tends to drive it back. The hot water pipes 

 are carried down the center of the house and the 

 return pipes are located in the same place. A low 

 partition is run lengthwise of the house dividing the 

 pipes and thus forming double pens, half extending 

 from the center to the front and half from the center 

 to the rear of the house. The pipes and the parti- 

 tion between them is covered over with boards mak- 

 ing a 4 foot walk or runway directly over the pipes, 

 which comes into most convenient use as a place to 

 convey, by means of a wheelbarrow, feed or other 

 material needed in the house, and as a convenient 

 place from which to care for the ducklings in the 

 pens on each side. This board covering over the 

 pipes also serves to hold the heat and thus forms 

 hovers. 



It is advisable to partition off the first third of the 

 house, that is, the portion in which the heater is lo- 

 cated, with a solid partition. Then by having suit- 

 able valves in the pipes, the heat can be cut off from 



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