Money in Broilers and Squabs. 



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'Never use the full (advertised) capacity of the brooder. No 

 more than fifty chicks should be kept in any brooder at one time. 

 _^ Too high temperature in the brooder will cause the chicks to 

 steam," resulting in loss. 



As the lamps in an outdoor brooder are enclosed in a small box, 

 care must be taken that the flame is not too high, or it may collect 

 soot and catch fire. 



Make the chicks exercise in the brooders. 



Plate 5— CHICK— Eighteenth Day Incubation. 



Sixteen feet is long enough for an outside run for broiler 



chicks. ..-,.,, 



Cooper says the usual rate of capacity is five lineal feet of 



brooders per one hundred chicks. 



Chicks in brooders during the summer need no heat, excepting 



a moderate temperature at night for the first v^^eek or two. Too 



much heat is fatal. 



W. H. Rudd, in "Poultry Monthly, says: We want separate 



