SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
production will surely fall off whenever 
they are moved from one place to another. 
The poultryman who would avoid this loss 
should arrange to keep them in the same 
house during their whole lives. 
These houses should be built facing 
the south, and can be built with a canvas 
front, if so desired. There are very many 
different kinds of poultry houses, but this 
little shed-roofed house, with or without a 
canvas front, is the best thing I have 
tried for colony purposes. For a large 
apartment house something different will 
have to be designed. 
A brooder house 9x 
10 feet will accommodate 
two hundred chicks until they are about 
four weeks old, after which time they 
should be given more room. The walls 
should be high enough so there will not 
be much, if any, stooping while attending 
to the chicks. It should front south and 
have plenty of windows in the south side 
for sunshine and air; or, if you like a 
canvas front, it can be used instead of the 
windows. The lower part of the window 
should be about two feet above the ground 
and arranged so that it can be opened for 
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Brooder Houses 
