Mimeograph, Series, No. 183u=e 
1945
AGRICU LTURAL 
EXERIMENT 
STATION
of The Alabama 
Polyechnic 
Institute 
Auburn, Ala.
M. J. Funchess, Director
M&OVABIEJ BOODER HOUSE
D.. iCING Poultry Husbandman
Movable brooder houses make it possible toreduce chick-and laying
house mortality as well as lower feeding costs. Chicks raised on ground
where few chickens have ever been are usually quite fre from diseasesand
Worms, If the area is sown to a good green'.feed for grazing, the total
feed cost will also be considerably reduced,
in order for a movable brooder house to be satisfactory, it should
be small enough so that it can be moved with onemule" It should benarrow
.enough .so that it will gothrough a conmoi gate and oter-rough ground and
over terraces. The one show4,jn-here meets these requirements. It is large
enough tQ adequately take care of 150 chickso The brooder house should be
moved to clean ground at the beginning ofr each brooding season and moved a
few f eet each month duritng the time thechicks are using thehu
Often slight .chlanges in method of construction will enable one to use
scrap material available around the flarri. Since new galvanized roofing is
difficult to obtair- at the present timte, boards covered with roofing paper
may be T stfacto%+-q rily1 subt+ituted orq t"+hen
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-n 1Whkiet1-.h nicks reP sP pmaI
plan, can b oitted if thehouse, is, not-to,- be used Ia el , r .ly T y hens.
PORTABLI ROOM R ,RANGE , .b- D LATh ,G HOUSE~
W ireC nottijg l lorth end is boarded up.
va~l1z (.1d IRoo1
Ventilator Door
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