Show ventilating poultry house the nests in poultry houses should be well ventilated even if they have to be moved out from the walls temporarily let the air circulate freely through the nests for they are close and stuffy at best in hot weather use a small amount of clean dry litter in nests such as coarse wood shavings plan at least one nest for each five layers during the hot weather hens which have been through the better part of a whole year of egg yield or those older hens which are now in their second or third or more year of production should be producing a maxi murn mum percentage of first grade large eggs during this summer fall period and therefore the added advantage of keeping them in full laying condition rural new yorker ker |