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Right now, you should be getting ready for baby chicks. On most farms the work load isn’t quite so heavy now. That means you might have time now to clean out the brooder house. And Clean it well. A few bugs hanging around can get into the chicks and hurt them badly enough to cost you extra eggs next fall.
| Clean out the house with lye water, or any disinfectant recommended for the purpose. Get is spanking clean for the little ones.
.After you have it clean, move it to a new location. * Most broode^ houses are portable. I don’t mean you can carry them on your back but you can move them with your tractor. Movipg the brooder house means you leave a lot of bugs behind. To make sure you don’t move the house on top of a pile of bugs, though, move it to ground on which chickens haven’t been brooded for two years. Two years is time enough for practically all the bugs to have died natural deaths. ,
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Plan your range, too. Many poultrymen use their brooder houses for range shelters. So, tote the brooder house close , to a clean range . .. again where you haven't had checkens for a couple pf years.
Plan on raising a clean flock . . . especially on the inside they should be clean already. Bugs that get into the chickens while they are growing will often hurt egg production after they get in the house. After they’re in the house, there’s! not much you can do. Preparation of the flock is the key td profit. Order your Hy-Line Layer’s, today, from—. •
Heatwole Hatchery of Orange, Inc.
Box 893, Orange, Virginia
W. Stewart Miller, Manager
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