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PRACTICAL POULTRY PRODUCTION 



into general use. Such brooder stoves have a capacity 

 varying from 200 to 1,500 chicks. 



These individual brooders are used in colony houses and 

 frequently, when the chicks are weaned, the houses are used 

 as growing quarters. Such a plan requires a smaller invest- 

 ment than the long hot-water-heated brooder house and 

 likewise allows one to rear the chicks on range to good advan- 

 tage. Brooder stoves of both oil and coal type are usually 

 operated in houses that are from 12 x 14 feet to 14 x 20 



Figure 104. — A continuous liot-water-heated brooder house. Hot-water 

 brooders are suitable for large poultry farms where most of the chickens 

 are raised during the winter and early spring in large numbers. 



feet and are also occasionally used in long continuous 

 brooder houses, similar to the one shown in Figure 104. 



It is advisable to have the colony brooder house wherein 

 oil or coal-burning brooder stoves are used of an oblong 

 shape rather than square. That is, the floor dimensions 

 should be 12 x 14 feet rather than 12 x 12 feet. With a 

 house so built it is possible by placing the stove back a 



