Show KEEPING CHICKENS IN COLD inexperienced poultry raisers make mistake in furnishing quarters that are too warm one of the mistakes made by nearly all the inexperienced poultry raisers la Is in keeping the chickens too warm in winter they cannot bring themselves to believe that the hen la Is so warmly clad that it can live in the open like a quail partridge prairie chicken and other wild fowl no one would think of furnishing warm quarters for the sparrow or the wild pigeon feathers are non tors and as comfortable as furs they are so thickly placed on the chicken that the cold cannot get through nor can the body heat get out the only shelter that a chicken really needs la Is from wet and from drafts A chicken that Is inured to cold weather Is not so apt to get sick many coops are open in front only curtains of burlap or some other cheap material being provided to protect the chicken from stormy weather |