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Show BBBBpBBBBBBBBBBBi f WARM MR POULTRY J v PROPER ARRANGEMENT OF CHICKEN HOUSE. i Partitions, Pens and Roosting Quarters Quar-ters In Their Places Removable Nesto One of the Chief Features of the Layout The Best Netting. II. A. What would be an up-todnto nrrnngomont (Inside) for a warm poultry house, 18 by 18 feet in size, 13 foot high In front nnd 8 feet high nt tho back? Tho house is well lighted light-ed on the south nnd wost, tho door Is on the north sldo. Tho house could bo moro rcndlly planned if tho door was not In the north side. For this reason It Is iccos8nry to allow for a passageway, throo feet wide, at tho north. If tho door was In tho west, south or cast walls of tho house, tho roosting quarters quar-ters would be placed tight against tho north wall, and tho spneo waBtod by tho pnssngoway would bo of uso to tho fowls. The partition between tho pons should bo erected first. It is In tho middle cf tlin house and runs north and south. Hoards should bd nailed two foot from tlio floor to prevent the malo birds fighting. Abovo tho boards two-inch mesh wlro netting is usod, VtfWt Wf WlRt J Division Between Pens of Double Poultry House. Whon Plymouth Rocks or slmllnr hoavy chickens aro housed, the netting net-ting should bo four feet wide; Leghorns Leg-horns or light breeds require netting six foot wide. Tho partition extends from tho south wnll to within three feot of tho north wall. Whero convenient con-venient a holo twelvo inches wide nnd six inches high should bo cut In tho partition nnd a shelf twelvo Inches squaro formed for holding tho water dlnh, Tho shelf should bo six Inches -trom thy-gronhn: Lr y The r)iostlng quarter's" should bo built. Tho drop board Is thrco feet wldo and seven feet long. It Is placed twenty Inches abovo tho ground. Four two by four-Inch Btuils should bo orectod at the Inside corners. Tho end nnd back of each roosting quarter quar-ter should bo tight boarded for four feet nbovo tho dropbonrd to prevent draughts striking tho fowR A twelve-Inch twelve-Inch hinged board at tho Wck 1b convenient con-venient for the romoval of droppings. The roosts aro two by four Inch scantlings scant-lings with the corners rounded off on tho two-inch edge on which tho fowls roost. Tho roosts arc ten inches abovo tho drop board; tho rear roost Is ton Inches from tho wnll; tho roosts aro slxtcou inches apart. I Below tho dropboard laths aro nailed up and down, ZM Inchos apart, I PEtl-2 Btt Floor Plan of Double Poultry House, so that tho fowls can feed from tho passageway. If tho fowls nro cold nt night I would advlso boarding in tho top of tho roosting quarters nnd dropping a burlnp curtain In front of tho fowls on cold nights. At other times tho curtain could bo fastened up. Tho door Into each pen Is two foot wide nnd six feet high. It should bo hung with scroon door spring hinges. Tho windows In tho south wall of tho houso should also bo hinged. Tho nosts are- romovable and aro placed against tho partition. Flvo aro built togothor and tho top Is sloping to provont tho fowls roosting thero. (Seo cut of ond of nests.) The lnsldo dimensions ot each nest aro twelvo Inchos squaro nnd oighteon Inches high on tho low sldo. Where tho roof boards moot tho partition tho height Is 2 feet. A space of ten Inchos Is allowed between tho nests and tho partition for a passagoway for tho hons. |