SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
You will not be able to keep the tem- 
perature in the brooder as steady as you 
have kept it in the incubator, for the 
reason that the changing position of the 
chickens will affect the reading of the 
thermometer: for instance, if they are 
gathered closely around the bulb of the 
thermometer, it will register a higher 
temperature than it will when they are 
scattered out, while the general tempera- 
ture of the machine would be about the 
same; and then, when part of the chickens 
are out of the machine, the temperature 
will not be so high as when they are all in 
the machine. All of these things must be 
taken into consideration when managing 
the brooder. You must not expect to 
keep the temperature of the brooder just 
at a certain degree, for you can not do it; 
the best you can do is to keep the tem- 
perature as near the proper degree as 
possible. 
The ideal brooder is the one that has 
ample heat and allows the chicks to get 
away from the heat when they are too 
warm and approach nearer to it when 
they are too cold. 
This is one of the reasons why the 
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