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Show BROODER AND COOP COMBINED Device Made From Old Wagon Box, With Waterproof Roof, Found to j Be Excellent Shelter. ! I have used all shapes and sizes of home-made Jiigheated brooders and like best the ono made from an old wagon box. All holes In sides and floor i were patched up when making It, and ! a roof put over ono end. This roof Is so put on that It may be ralaed and Finoetrit 5 1 fl 1 ttOH.H f &OC 1 V j l I I " I Brooder and Brood Coop Combined, j lowered, writes Mrs. O. M. Spencer J of Vun, Mo., In tho Missouri Valley j Farmer. It Is waterproof, but gives ! free circulation of air. A partition put t through the box makes the hover , about three feet square, with - two doors for chicks to run In and nut. On damp or cold days and every night a lantern Is kept binning in the hover, which bus a cloth hanging from the top that bags down onto the bucks of chicks. Tho light does not annoy them. Indeed chicks always seem to prefer to huddle In a cold light place rather than a warm dark one. The rest of the wagon box Is covered with poultry netting to keep out the other chic kens. On rainy days It Is well to spread a canvas over the netting. Keep the young chick dry by all means, and keep his crop full. A chick fed all he wan's from the time he Is 36 hour old will never overeat. On cold or stormy days I feed and water the chicks In the run and shut them back In the hover till they get restless, then feed and wster again. |
