Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — USING A FIRELESS BROODER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

USING A FIRELESS BROODER

Box Protected by Wool Carpet and Heated by Small Jug of Warm Water is Excellent.

•A there are many poultrymen who prefer to raise chlt-ks in a fireless brooder, we give here a plan suggested by W. D. Neale, which has been used successfully for two years, says the lowa Homestead. He secured a box three feet long, sixteen inches wide and eight inches deep from his grocer for fifteen cents. An opening was made in one side of the box four inches in width and height to admit, the chicks. To fit in this box, make a frame of laths two inches less in width and length than the box. The laths were placed

about three inches apart and nailed securely to cross pieces at either end. This frame fitted inside the box and rested on nails, two at each end, driven through the box at the desired height. These nails were withdrawn and driven higher in the ends of the box as the chicks grew so that they would have more room beneath the frame. A piece of wool carpet was thrown over the top of the frame and pressed dow T n beneath the lath so that

the folds would just touch the downy backs of the chicks. On cold nights an extra piece of carpet was thrown over the box or a small jug of warm water placed inside. The bottom of the box was kept covered with straw.

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Fireiess Brooder.

Covering of Brooder.