While in the heated brooder houses the chickens are fed in the regular way--with mixed ground grains, either dry or moistened, and small whole or cracked grains.
After they leave the brooder houses they have cracked corn, beef scrap, and water always before them; for green food they have cabbage or the winter rye or grass growing on the land.
The houses and yards for adult stock, the incubator cellar and the brooder houses, the barns and sheds, and the dwelling of the owner or manager occupy but a very small part of the farm--usually from one to three acres.
Rye and cabbage are preferred, because the rye will remain green all winter and furnish green food for chickens that have access to it, and the cabbage makes the best of green food for the little chickens in the brooder houses.
The chickens are kept in warm brooder houses as long as they need artificial heat, then they are removed to cold brooder houses of the same type or to colony houses.
Likewise, with brooder chicks, we must divide the credit of their livability in an arbitrary fashion between parentage, incubation, and care after hatching.
For brooder raised chicks it is necessary to provide means for the little chick to exercise.
As the ducks are moved down through the house and eventually reach the last pens they are taken from this house and placed in brooder house No.
The judgment of the brooder man must decide how often this is necessary but it will be at least once a week.
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On receipt they should be placed immediately in a brooder already prepared for them.
Removing the Newly Hatched Ducklings to the Brooder House.
For this purpose any brooder utilized for chicks or ducks can be used for goslings.
If the ducks are not ready to be taken out of the machines by noon or soon after, it is best to leave them until the next morning before removing them to the brooder house.
As additional ducklings are hatched later and brought to the brooder house, the ducklings already there are moved along the necessary number of pens in order to accommodate the new-comers in the pens nearest the heater.
The track leads from the feed mixer across the various yards where the ducks to be fed are located, including both the breeding ducks, yard ducks and brooder ducks in yards.
The small white lice can be controlled by dusting the chicks with insect powder and by keeping the brooder absolutely clean.
In a very few days after we place the chicks in a brooder they should be allowed to go in and out at will.
There is a standard make ofbrooder costing five dollars that will accommodate fifty chicks.
The brooder houses are located near the house as long as the little chicks need heat.
By moving the first hatches to some shack houses, which are cheaply built, when the chicks no longer need heat the brooder houses can be used once again.
We first built some brooder houses, gasolene heated, as used at Cornell, and purchased day-old chicks of a good laying strain.
When the chicks no longer need heat the hovers of the brooder houses are removed and roosts put in.
I left the top of the brooder open while I went for water the second day after hers and the incubator's had hatched, and when I came back she was just as you see her now, in possession of the entire orphan-asylum.
Now, just look at that," I said as I opened the top of the long box that is called a brooder and is supposed to supplement the functions of the metal incubator mother in the destiny of chicken young.
In the Eastern States, great care is exercised in moving chicks from incubator to brooder oven, and also in seeing that the brooder itself is warm and fit to receive the chicks.
At from six to eight weeks old the chicks should be taken from the brooder quarters to the colony houses and range, or wherever they are to be located, and at this time they should be taught to perch.
Would some good grade of white cloth on a frame do as well, or would it be better than glass, for a brooder house, or would it keep out too much sun-heat?
What is a good method of breaking in young brooder chicks to use the roosts?
One of the best types of brooder house is the two-room type developed by Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Where flocks of poultry are to be kept for egg production, special laying houses must be provided in addition to brooder houses that will be needed in any case.
Figure 11 represents the best duck brooder I know of.
This is set up in front of the opening in brooder, and being of the same length, forms a little pen in front of brooder one foot wide, in which the feeding-trough can be placed with drinking fount.
The front of the brooder leading into the pens is cut out in centre of brooder four feet long and four inches deep to allow the free passage of the ducklings.
This brooder should be used in the brooding-house during winter and early spring, after which it can be used to better advantage out of doors.
Let it be understood that a good brooder is, next to the incubator, the most important thing in the business.
The ducklings should be put out, if possible, during the middle of the day, and while the sun shines through the windows, as they can be fed in the sun and put under the brooder later in the day.
These openings in the first four pens are fringed with woolen cloth, cut up every four inches, to keep the brooder warmer in cold weather.
This is my present brooding arrangement, with the exception of a common door handle screwed on each brooder cover to facilitate handling.
At one end of the building is a heater, from which an inch-and-a-half flow and return pipe runs under the brooder boxes the entire length of the building and furnishes heat for the little birds.
This brooderis six and a half feet long by three feet wide, and will accommodate 150 ducklings.
Things went on apparently well for a week or two, when, going home one day, I noticed a number of dead ducklings lying around, and looking under the brooder I found quite a number more.
The case of this brooder is made of matched boards and thoroughly ventilated and furnished with glass doors to admit light.
On the south side of this walk our brooder boxes are arranged.
The brooder is employed to take care of the chickens as soon as they leave the incubator.
The mason's work for the incubator house and the foundation wall for the brooder house cost $290.
If the brooder house is 50 feet long and 15 feet wide, it can easily care for the eight hundred chicks, and for half as many more, if we are lucky enough to get them.
Dorothy, who had never seen an incubator and brooder in operation before and who was immensely interested.
Brooder for Small Chicks [343] A very simple broodercan be constructed by cutting a sugar barrel in half and using one part in the manner [Illustration: Brooder for Young Chicks Kept Warm with a Jug of Boiling Water] described.
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