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POULTRY CXTLTUEE 



Floor plans are given of the double and single brooder houses 

 in Fig. 179. A double brooder house is usually 24 feet wide, 

 with a central alley and a brooder system on each side. A 

 double house is built to run north and south, so that the chicks 

 in one side get the morning sun and on the other side the after- 

 noon sun. 



A single brooder house is built east and west, facing the 

 south, with an alley on the north side. The roof is built either 

 on the shed plan or three-quarter span. 



Fig. 1>>1. — A cross-section of an automaticatly lieat-rcgulated colony 



brooder. 



Another type of large brooder is the colony house brooder. 

 Many take houses 20 by 20 and place in the center a large hover, 

 with a capacity of sc\'eral hundred chicks. Figure 181 shows 

 one of these hovers. As the chicks become too warm they 

 move away from the stove and project their heads through 

 between the slits in the felt, and finally, if too warm, outside 

 the hover, again returning after becoming cooled off. The 



