The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-10
H0WYOU MAY BUILD
YOUR OWN BR000ER
DIRECTIONS BY WHICH ANY ONE
HANDY WITH TOOLS NAY MAKE
CHEAP. PRACTICAL AND sTB-
sTANTIAL ONE.
CARE ABOUT HEATING
MATERIALS NECESSARY, AND HOW
THE WORN SHOULD BE DONE
coon VENTILATION
NECESSARY.
Nv cLINEIY =. MILLER.

At this season Of tht year the prac-
teal pauItryman, no mater whether
he NAV be the farmer poaitryman ot
the city faaeier. turns his thoughts
10 the subject Of incubation, either
natural or artificial While the writer
does not believe IL Is good Judgment
for every one To build his breeders.
yet If he liz handy with the necessary
tools there Is no reason that home
made hro6er built along the right
lines should not he AZ good as fac
tory built Gne For at this time there
are numerous manufacturers who
furnish both the finished hrooder as
we'll as the necessary metal parts for
A home made brooder Seine manu-
facturers furnish Il set OF plans with
their fixtures which enables any one
who IS handy with tools to make q
hrooder far cheaper than the same
could he bought at the factory. net
Including the freight or express
harges incurred in having II deliv
cred Then too. we take far more
pride in anything that We make our
selves. especially If II proves success
fnl The brooder described III this
article VIII eixe as good satisfaction
as any hrooder OF the same capacity
which the writer has ever se"n IN
operation. The hrooaer here de-
scrlbed is not "A hot water hrooaer.
having no tank, but in It's stead is
heated hy hot air generated by either
an incubator lamp or an ordinary
brooder stove, which can lie pure hased
from any reliable poultry supply
house.
Metal Parts and Lumber Required.
In making a hrooder of this kind
the following bill of lumber is re-
CURED. one hnard eleven inches
wide tdressed1. twelve feet long; one
toard twelve inches wide by twelve
feet long; eighteen feet of flooring
and ten feet ef five-eighth inches cell
ing. We will also need a sheet OF
galvanized iren three by three feet
in size to form the heating surface
of the hrooder. This constitutes
everything required for this hrooder
with the exception OF nails and
four-inch tomato can or one of gal
yanized iron made for this purnoss.
To begin with. we will cut our
eleven inch board into two pieces
three feet long. and two pieces thirty
four inches long. When nailed to-
gether we will find that we have
bottomless box three feet square. ON
this We will now nail the three by
three foot piece of galvanized iron.
taking care that it is securely nailed
heating surface for the hrooder. Te
form a heating chamber we will now
nail one-inch strip around the out
side edge OF the box we have Just
covered with the iron. This strip is
nailed on the top like the illustra-
ton and as close to the edge as pos
sible Our chamber il now made. but
we must have some opening for fresh
air to enter so we Will saw one
inch opening out of this strip in the
middle of two opposite sides as Is
shown in the illustration. To this
strap In nailed the flooring material
which forms the floor of the hrooder.
This flooring should be OF tongue and
groove material and nailed together
az close as possible, so that the heat
may be retained in the heat vhambcr
whose top is formed by this floor.
In the center of this floor cut a
two or three-inch opening. 50 that
the warmed air may enter into the
chick chamber. Now here is where
our tomato can or galvanized can
made for the purpose Is put into use.
This can serves a twofold purpose.
1t both keeps the tiny chicks from
scratching the material into the open
ing and also forms the heat drum.
Whatever you use see that 1t is Sc
curely nailed to the floor directly over
the opening made in the fioor for this
purpose. Before mailing this can to
the brooder for nall row OF small
holes around the top edge OF this can.
This completes the lamp-box and
heating part of the brooder. Since
the hroo.tng chamber has been mads
we will turn our attention to the hover
for the little ones which we hope We
will soon have out. This hover is
shown In illustration No. and II
made ~ follows: Saw up the Ave-
inch ceiling material Into lengths two