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in that the brood is not properly broken to the brooder. Briefly, 

 the brooder will provide warmth and so on, but the operator must 

 teach the brood of chicks how to avail themselves of its care. 



No one make of brooder or system of brooding is superior to 

 the others. The poultry raiser must choose one that is best suited 

 to particular requirements, such as the size of the flock, size and 



{Courtesy Buckeye Incubator Company) 



Fig. 193. — Brooder stoves are great labor-savers inasmuch as they can be made 

 to care for chicks in large flocks. 



type of houses, climate and so on. Also the funds available for 

 permanent equipment of this sort. 



There are two principal ways of brooding : one is in small units, 

 consisting of about fifty chicks, and the other is in large flocks, 

 ranging from 200 to 1500 chicks. Then again, the small unit plan 

 may be carried out in two ways : either by single hovers in small 

 coops (see Fig. 194), usually spoken of as colony brooder coops, 

 or by a long, continuous brooder house in which the hovers are 



