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Show BOX FOR CATCHING CHICKENS Method Described That Does Away With Frightening Whole Flock-Handy Flock-Handy for Applying Powder. Catching grown fowls by hand or with a wire hook scares the flock. A catching box saves time and the other fowls are not frightened. The box can be made any size; 20 by 20 inches Chicken Catching Box. by 5 feet will hold a good many. One end of box is left open. Place this at entrance of coop. The other end and one side is of wire netting. This admits light and induces the fowls to enter, writes Fred L. Bailey in the Missouri Valley Farmer. Three doors made to slide back and forth and large enough to admit a large fowl are placed on the fourth side. Knobs or blocks are nailed on the center of doors, and two large blocks put beneath the box raise it level with the entrance. A partition is made to drop where the dotted lines are shown, which will keep the chickens at one end when all but a few are caught. When you want to apply lice powder to a number of fowls or cull out the flock, go into the coop and drive the fowls in till the box is full, then close the entrance door. The chickens can then be caught by the legs and drawn out at slide doors one by one. Two hands can make quick work, one catching the fowls, the other applying apply-ing the lice powder. |