The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-02-13
ABOUT BROODERS.
An Invention Which Every Poultry Breed
err should Have.

should Have.
A good brooder is certainly an in
vention which every poultry raiser
should have. Any one can make a
brooder at triiiing cost and with il
avoid much annoyance. If q hen
matches the chicks, she can be given
another setting Of eggs, if not too thin
in flesh. or she can be ''broken up and
allowed to lay again. The cost OF
keeping hen with chicks is much
greater than when she is setting or lay
ing, as she eats more than her share OF
the delicacies prepared for her children,
besides trampling over a portion Of the
remainder With brooder the hen can
not step on any of the little fellows or
keep them poor by loading them with
lice. The chicks thrive amazingly and
if properly fed. watered and kept clean,
will nearly all live Any kind of a
brooder will not do. but any kind of a
person can build brooder that viii do,
and we can give the needed instruction
in few lines. If it be in warm weather
place it out of doors. Nike box two
feet square and eighteen inches high,
with or without bottom; cut few
boles near the top of one side for doprs
or entrance places; put in adjustable
zinc or sheet-iron floor four inches from
the top (nail the zinc to a little frame
that can be moved up and down to ac-
commodate the increasing size of
chicks); this floor should be nearly air
tight to prevent the fumes OF the lamp
from rising; bore few holes above and
below the floor to let in fresh air above
and let cut gas below: sprinkle an inch
or less of dry sand. dirt or saw dust
upon the floor and it Is ready for habi-
tation.. Set the box in the ground up to-
line with the floor. (this makes it easy
for the chicks to 60 in and ouD,, leav-
ing place on one side to put I'M small
lamp and admit air enough to. supply
the lame with oxygen. The brooderis
complete aud it will require surpris-
ingly small amount of oil to make the
small blaze required 10 heat the floor
and keep the little things contented and
happy. Change the saw dust every few
days If still more economy is desired
and little extra work is not disagree
able. the cost of oil can be saved by in
closing tank of warm waterin u pack
ing Of sawdust on all sides except the.
top which is the floor of the broodcr;
arrange so as to draw ont and put in
water to keep up temperature of abOwt
eighty degrees. A brooder two ia, L
square will accommodate fifty chicks
Ii it is in cold weather the broodsr
rHGast be in as warm a place as yoas
would put a hen with chicks. Tie
writer of this hos = rather ncrel brood
er which is taking mothers care of
tkirtv-one chicks Matched in an inca-
bator on Chr stnas day. Il consists OF
simple box, I've inches built arosnd
in "a chamber room where it
passes through the floor in. thMble;
piece of building paper is perforated
and placed t<O inches fnom the pipe
and entirely around it, thus, preventing
too much heat. The ventilatien was
splendid. abe thimble constantly dis
charging warm air from the room be-
low. Plenty of clean sawdust is kept
upon the floor, and 4 rua four feet
square provided for them. The top to
the ..Inother" is of zinc, VIII lie = COM
mon piece of a mosquito netting keeps
the wee orphans from jumping out. AS
there is fire constantly in the stove
below there is no extra expense in
warming the hrooder. These chicks
we expect to sell as '.broilers' when
two months old for seventy-five cents
each, and if possible we will have three
or four hundred more that will COM
mand half a dollar at same age. There
are many good breeders upon the
market, and some very poor ones. The
top heaters ara failures as tho chicks
pile upon each other in their efforts to
touch something warm, and many are
thereby killed Chicago Express.