Foldable poultry brood box

摘要

A foldable poultry brood box having a folding bottom, folding endwalls, and folding sidewalls provides a sheltered environment for the maturation of a brood of young poultry. Preferably, after the brood box is deployed, a floor overlay insert is placed and retained within the brood box to overlay, bridge over, and cover substantial portions of two floor free edges.

主权项

1. A foldable poultry brood box comprising two congruent brood box blanks operatively and foldably connected one to the other;
each said brood box blank comprising a rectangular floor having a first large isosceles right triangular floor panel foldably connected respectively along each leg of said first large isosceles right triangular floor panel to a second small isosceles right triangular floor panel and to a third small isosceles right triangular floor panel, each said small isosceles right triangular floor panel congruent to the other, an integral endwall foldably connected and depending from and along the hypotenuse of said first large isosceles right triangular floor panel, two integral half sidewalls each said half sidewall foldably connected and depending from and along the length of a leg of an adjacent said small isosceles right triangular floor panel and each said half sidewall adjacent and foldably connected to respective opposite ends of said endwall, said rectangular floor having a floor free edge opposite said endwall; said two brood box blanks foldably connected one to the other by foldably connecting said half sidewalls at opposite ends of said free floor edge of one said brood box blank to respective said half sidewalls at opposite ends of said free floor edge of the other said brood box blank; a floor overlay insert received within said brood box substantially overlaying said floor free edges; and a poultry bedding placed in said brood box to cover said floor overlay insert.