Show Losses Sure When the Chicks Are Overcrowded Crowding always results In enormous losses and occurs Just I prior to the chicks taking to the roost It may be discouraged by maintaining heat beat but eventually th the chicks will take to the corners It might be Ideal but Impractical to construct a round brooder bouse house but one can eliminate the corners In Ina Ina Ina a house with square corners A scheme of this kind consists of Inclined In in- elined wire netting frames about 2 feet teet wide placed In La the back and sides sIes of or the house The Inner edge ege Is Js next nest to the floor while the outer Is elevated about a foot from the floor It Is of ot course necessary that these frames fit Gt tight so that It Is Impossible for chicks to get under under- ne neath th With this arrangement as the chicks crowd out they are arc elevated elevated elevated ele ele- an and there Is no danger of the chicks s being suffocated Usually small roosts are nailed on the upper upper upper up up- per side of the frame and It Is only a short t time me until the chicks are roosting The old Idea was WIS that too early roosting caused crooked breast bones but that Idea has hns been exploded so that now the advIce Ice Is Isto Isto isto to get the chicks roosting as soon as possible Missouri Missouri Farmer |