Arizona republican., 1922-04-23

/ Californa poultryman, but results so
far indicate that it works just as
successfully here. Only 200 We're
tried out at first but the loss was
very small and at the end of the six
weeks period. when they are sup
posed to be old enough to leave the
brooder, the chicks on the McVay
farm were all feathered out and as
husky, healthy a lot as one would
care to see. Four hundred are to go
into the brooder house next time.
The following description of this
system is taken from the Petaluma
Poultry Journal.
"The brooder house is Ia feet wide
with a shed roof. The rear wall is
tight except that there is a sliding
ventilator by II inches, controlled
by single lever The front wall is
boarded 2k feet high. Above this
base boarding to the roof is a 4-foot
section of muslin tackled fast. Ad-
joining this is a 4-foot muslin sliding
panel and then comes the 4-foot
door, also covered with muslin. rms
makes up the 12-foot front of the
pen.
Air Inlets
Across the rear of the compart-
ments is laid a movable platform
feet 10 inches by feet, held one inch
above the floor by a narrow frame
around it's edge. Under each edge Of
the platform and through the main
floor are five Ia Inch holes. letting
fresh air from below into the air
space between the platform and the
floor The air is conducted to the
top of the hover by two 4-inch gall
vanized iron tubes which pierce the
platform and project inches
above it.
THE hover. which is 3 feet
inches by feet, is supported over the
platform by four legs each by 2 and
8 inches long. The roof of the hoveS
is tongue and groove lumber covered
with roofing paper. The hover Is Is
building and one end is against the
partition while the other end is
against the board dividing its own
pen into two compartments. A by
4-inch strip below the roof of the
hover at front and back and below
this to within one inch of the plat
form is an oilcloth curtain doubled
and slit every inches so that the
Sits break joints and preserve the
heat.
'AThe hover is warmed by overhead
electrical heat entirely, supplied by
wire coiled on eight slender wooden
rods attached beneath the roof and
by a thermostat The
chicks are given 80 degrees the first
week, after which it is maintained at
about So
''The platform beneath the hover is
covered with sacking, which is
changed every day. A little chopped
straw is sprinkled on the floor behind
the hover.
in the compartment with the
hover is q movable platform 10
inches high and held upright by tri-
angles at the ends. This is used for
controlling the chicks the first few
days.
Floor Covered With Sand
'sThe floor of the hover compart-
ment is covered thinly with sand.
The other compartment is filled to
the top of the 10-inch board with
chopped straw and alfalfa, in which
is mixed 400 pounds of commercial
chick food for the 400 chicks which
are to occupy the pen, and Is expect
ed to last five or six weeks. On top
is spread half a bucket of granite
chick size grit and about 80 pounds
of granulated bone.
1.-THE chicks are fed the first time
when the Oldest ones are 72 hours
old. Bran is scattered lightly over
the sand in front of the hover. This
is done three times in the first half
day of feeding. just to teach them to
eat, and because it is a desirable
first ration. At the same time sweet
SKINNED milk is supplied in Mason
jar founts, seven or eight of them to
a pen. so that every chick may get
a drink. On the fourth day water is
given instead of milk. On the fifth
dav sour or buttermtlk is given and
continued until the birds are three
months old No water is given.
Sour milk does not feed so well in
these founts, as it soon separates,
the whey feeding and the curd re-
manning in the jar. This milk is
served in a round bottom galvanized