Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-01-24 | Page 3 | Fresh-Air Houses for Eggs

FRESH-AIR HOUSES FOR EGGS Excellent Results Secured by Leaving Screen Door Open Wheat Straw Used for Litter. Some years ago. while trying to make poultry pay on a small scale, I :ried the open-air house. By making i screen door at one end and leaving his open day and night I secured ;vice as many eggs as in my other houses not so provided, says a writer in an exchange. Now that I am keeping keep-ing fowls on a -lower scale I always jse some kind of fresh air house with good results. Wheat straw is spread in the chicken house to the depth ot six inches. In this the feed is scat-:ered, scat-:ered, oats, wheat, barlev sorghum seed, etc., for morning and noon feeds. The evening meal consists of a mash 3f boiled potatoes thickened with bran, beef meal, a little ground oats ' ind cornmeal slightly salted. After '.he fowls have eaten all they want I feed ear corn for a finish. Beef scrap, iharcoal, grit and oyster shell are constantly con-stantly before them. The straw is cleaned out every day and replaced ivith fresh the next morning. If the weather is bad and the fowls have to stay in doors, I replace twice a day. 1 have no trouble in getting eggs in winter from bred-to-lay white leghorn md white Wyandotte fowls. Both varieties va-rieties are good.