| Show POULTRY RY HOUSES AND THEIR Tn EIK construction k 1 do N STR U IX I 1 author of the dollar hen sa says y s that many chicken risers raisers build their houses too ti tight ht and warm copyright 1910 by american press association I 1 ato two ways mays in which T money la Is lost in the poultry house construction the first method which 14 1 the way many farmers loae lose their money Is 13 by giving the favl buch poor quarters that they etive no protection against the weather und and predatory animals on tile other hand village poultry men and c illy the no notice fee who v bo proposes a ml I 1 v 4 0 A A X corar to take up poultry keeping aa as a profession fes sion slon very frequently lose mone by building more elaborate find expensive poultry houses than there Is nay any need for linked many funny houses houes are built so tight and warm that poultry kept in them are les le s 4 healthy than they would be in a hone of a small fraction of the cost there are throughout the states a number of defunct poultry plants in w m aich the cause of failure Is h now attributed to the idea of poultry house construction which prevailed preal led ten or fifteen years 4 ngo ago at that time liou acs were made with padded walls alls and entirely so that the thickens chIcken 4 while u hile roosting rooi ting in the bouse house at night were pre kept so warm marm that they might caught cold upon going out into the weather meather next morning the pre present leu deiK 1 Is toward lighter cheaper tier otter ventilated entila ted buildings I 1 the two tuo gemeril form forms of housea in lit us div are tire the long house and the colony bouse house the vie lou ion house has several pens under one roof and Is adapted to the village who wishes to keep heep several breeding pens peas of fowls und and who must keep keel them at y IM the farmer or egg farmer will ill almost construct bis poultry bouse or bouses houses on the tp taie of the bolour colour house that Is the house which n Is to contain one flock of fowls owls f simple houses best the house must bo be pla plague pl annc nue tor for too the bens liens comfort auy any embellishments or fancy work that Is added to please the ON owner ner should not bo charged up against the tho productive powers of tho the hen n for she needs a place to sleep cat and ana scratch out of the weather and cares I 1 atlo uli whether ether this protection be in lit the tile foltis of 1 1 piloted building with nith a jihor i tather cock on the iud iod or a piano box covered with imper hie llie bouse house should bo be only high enough for the kicfer to stand ait au geenter gi enter spice being a nasto and inal im the house colder in u winter in tt r flit house should contain about live squire feet of floor spica spice per ben hen it the boais are yarded while the io low la 14 on free range may inny get on with somewhat less spice the milder the climate the less indoor accommodations w aill til bo be required by the ben hen good drainage la to vital ibo the poultry house should be located upon the be best beit it drained moll available on the farm tho the sandiest soil that t will still grow grov crop crops la Is desired tor for poultry y it if the poultry bouse house be located loc abed on ou pure band pana thero will I ill bo be no green crop or insect life for tho the fowls fouls to furnish feed and and then results will ill be little better than upon baro board floors on the farm the hen should be separated lis ir wi pos possible from tho the hogpen especially it if heavy breeds are kept otherwise othir wise the hoga hogs in snapping at fowls fouls that arc are stealing their feed may learn the taste of flesh poultry inny be placed near the orchard but co copi for loung chicka should not be put under trees especially with leghorns Leg Legli horns orns as the oung mock will form tho the babit habit of roosting in the tree trees and serious trouble will be experienced aben the cold wo wither ither romes on it Is 1 usually impractical to locate poultry houses so that the hens nil aill not tind find lie the garden and we budt chow cho w between fencing the hen 4 or the bardini k stone foundation Is 1 best for the poultry houlf howse that Is 1 permanently lo 10 cited hut but where stone Is expensive this ienir 1 N replaced by cedar hemlock or orange pasts colony houses axe ate best built oa ou hemlock cl taud mud sills cut like bled sled runners so they may be moved to fresh ground floors may be constructed construe ted of rough boards or cebert cement floors are excellent but it well constructed are expensive cheaply constructed cement e floors will not last hnnry floor floors aro are common and are preferred by ninny many poultry men but built close to the ground they b arbor rats while it if open underneath they make the bouse house cold earth floors are generally most satisfactory for houses for mature fowls fouls it is 1 always desirable to grade up the site of the poultry house so that tho the water will run away from the building where tho the soil Is 1 heavy this Is 1 essential for dampness in a poultry house 1 Is an evil which must be overcome the walls ot of the chicken house must first of all be wl wi id tight the cheapest way may to obtain this la Is to use upright board and ana batten the cracks various kinia of lap ap siding give similar result results singe single board walla walls may be greatly improved by lining vita building paper or the wall as well as the root of the building may be cor covered with pr prepared pared roofing in very tery cold climates tho wall may bo be built of duble d abio boards with building paper in batu between een the question of roo fling Is 1 an argument between the uso use ot shingles and of prepared rooting papers the for uro are preferable but more expensive and where you know tho make of 0 a rooting routing which u aich you are suro sure is 13 durable it 1 14 usually wit tally to be chosen one topo of poultry house roof tint that has bag give excel icat satisfaction is made of matched cypress boards with ith no otier coi covering ering uh whatever ateer I 1 have seen sulli roots ten teu years of age that win lu a perfectly sound and weather proof condition the most common form of roof for thy the long poultry house is 1 the single slope in a house of 0 four fourteen tenn feet in 11 width a height of seven seen and one half halt feet in front and fire feet in the rear 14 1 4 a very cry good proportion if the shingle roofing rooting Is to bo be used it Is probably better to make the house of double pitch this in order to get the bouic high enough for ninan windows and doors will make the cone unnecessary ly high the dai culty Is h sometimes sometime avoided by having an uneven double pitch roof root that Is having the cone nearer the front side the object of ventilating chicken bouses houses Is to supply a reasonable amount of fresh air and whit is equally important to keep the house dy should ne never er bo be by means of cracks lu in the walls or cupolas or openings in the roof si stems of pipes which remove the foul air from near the buor form a complication which experience hia his h is shoun to be more trouble than it Is 1 s worth 1 ahe he noat practical w scheme heme of ventilating poultry houses N 1 to hai have 0 one or more m windows andon s in front of the tile house which are covered alth iv ath cloth instead of glass or la in 14 1 severe ellma tc having the win dou covered with poultry netting only an ali opening in one side of a it room the other three sides of which iro closed will mill provide ample ventilation atle while the fowls foun roosting in tho the far side ot the compartment will ke keep P comfortably warm and free fro from M drafts it if dry and protected arora tle the wind n ch ell ken will mill stand pretty low ION temperatures temperature without ill effects have as a little furniture as slake male nil roosts on the same level the ladder causes the birds to tight for the highest perch and offers no advantage whatever have roosts and nil other inside poul try furniture so that it may inny be read ren d 11 removed for cl eining and lice painting put in onia enough to accommodate the hens and find leathem let them be in the back brick slap of the howe the tho floor beneath the rm tta may mity be separated from the rest of the house by a board set on the edge which u will ill prevent the flit droppings being mingled with the litter of the feeding floor or tho roost may bo be placed oer ov cr a platform M raised some two tuo or three feet above the floor in cold an extra A COLONY u MUM cloth curtain is 1 sometimes bung hung in front of the roost thus forming a cupboard or closet this curtain should be let down only on extremely cold nights poultry yards the farm poultry k keeper aper of the eld school does not yard hl his i fou fowls Is the fancier who mho Is 1 gener generally illy a village or city dweller 1 Is 14 4 obliged to construct yards As s the fancy poultry breeders are the ones is ho do most of the u v rit ing for the poultry papers the idea of yards ards becomes become i infused into poultry literature era ture nith the result that farmers M lio ho beg besin lii to tike tahe an interest in poultry tr breci linz often go to the expense of building poultry bards in lini tedon of the tonn now nou as a twitter of fact larded poultry can be nude to ghe really better results thin fouls on free range but it takes ii lot of annete unnecessary esary labor to supply them nath ft ath the shade exorcise exercise and green food tood that they secure on the range yarded fowls fouls if left to take of themselves to the extent that tin the trie inge ringe r poultry may be will vi diore ore unprofitable by all means thos nh mit are situated where the chens in ini ta run free should not bother with attla except a small run on one side 1 of f ht he house howie which may be used in wintry mintry weather or when the 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