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Show GOOD BUILDING FOR POULTRY House Should be About Seven Feet High in Front and Face the South Cement Floor is Best. In reply to a query the Wisconsin agriculturist gives the following plans for a poultry house; "A poultry house In order to be convenient should be built fourteen or sixteen feet wide and as long as Is necessary to accommodate the number num-ber of fowls you wish to keep. It should be about seven feet high in front and high enough In the rear to give it enough slope to the roof. Build it close to the ground and have it face the south or southeast. Have it located lo-cated on a rise of ground so that the drainage will be away from the house. Fill up the floor with cinders or gravel and put in a cement floor in the whole house upon which you can keep two or three inches of fresh sandy loam. Have the windows to the south and east and the roosting closets in the farthest portion of the pens away from the windows. Divide the house into pens about eight or ten feet wide. A good method meth-od of building a poultry house is to make one pen with a cement floor eight feet wide In the rear of which is a tight roosting closet and next to this have a scratching shed ten or twelve feet wide without any floor except ex-cept a dirt floor and have the house entirely open In front. Provide a heavy curtain which can be let down in stormy weather to keep out the rain and snow. By building two laying lay-ing and roosting rooms together and a scratching shed oa each end and then adding similar sections you can keep as many fowls as you choose and they can be conveniently cared for especially if you make an alley In the rear, or you can enter each pen and scratching shed by providing a door which swings both ways. |