Show convenient BROODER HOUSE A small convenient brooder house used by the maine experiment station Is here shown this Is built on run ners and may be moved easily two 16 foot pieces of 4 by 6 inch timber serve as runners the ends of the timbers which project belond the house are chamfered on the under side to facilitate moving the houses are 12 feet long some of them are six feet and others seven feet wide seven feet Is the better width they are six feet high in front and tour feet high at the back the frame Is of 2 by 3 inch lumber the floor Is double board ed and the building is boarded and covered with a good quality of heavy roofing paper paper Is preferred to shingles for outside covering this kind of covering for the wall is not so likely to be injured in moving as shingles A door two feet wide is in the center of the front and a six light window hinged at the top Is on each side of it two brooders are placed in each of these houses and 50 to 60 chicks are put with each brooder A low partition separates the flocks while they are young but later it has to be made higher the houses are large enough so that a person can go in and do the work comfortably and each one accommodates chicks un til the cockerels are large enough to be removed |