Eureka Reporter | 1904-09-30 | Page 9 | To House Fifty Hens

HOUSE FIFTY HENS phan for san tary and Comfor tabt domicile for fowls P W A what should be the dl mens lons of a house tor fifty hense would this be too many for one corn fifty hens in one compartment would certainly be too many divide into two flocks of twenty alve birds each there is no cast iron rule as to the construction of a poultry house allow no less than six square feet of floor room to each fowl and build your house on the scratching house plan as shown in the accompanying allus trat rn which may serve as a guide the house referred to is 1260 di vided into tour pens each having a roosting and laying house and Bc shed the roosting room Is built of double boards and bat tens outside then paper and matched sheeting on the inside the sheeting and all studs are of hemlock the out side boards pine and sills of cedar set on cedar posts 6 feet apart the hem lock sheeting was used because it was cheaper than pine and rats do not go through it as much as they do pine there are no floors but the earth on the bottom of the pens is raised three feet higher than the ground outside in damp localities a board floor is pre