Show concrete runs outside brooder house are new concrete runs outside ot of the brooder house are a comparatively new addition to poultry farm equipment but are coming coining into use because of several advantages they enable on one e to 0 use a brooder house without danger from contaminated soil near them save the labor of moving portable buildings and make it possible to keep chicks near the dwelling or barns says say a writer in the rural new yorker As they do not have to boar bear heavy weights a two inch thick thickness bess of concrete Is sufficient clent except at the edges where double that thickness Is seeded to prevent breaking they should be smooth for easy cleaning have a slope for drainage two or three inches according to size and need not be rooted roofed they of course may be of any desired size so that they gle ghe an ample outside run preferably not less than that required inside for the same number of chicks they may have permanent fences or movable wire covered frames to set upon the concrete movable frames will facilitate cleaning they may be lightly covered with band loani loam or litter though the essential thing Is that they be kept clean to prevent infection from droppings dropping picked up by the chicks running ing upon them |