| Show summer range shelters improve poultry flock summer range shelters will pay as much on the investment as any other expenditure the can make according to T T brown extension of north carolina state college where more than birds are kept the shelter results in feed economy and healthier more thrifty pullets this assures the producer of a more economical egg production and a lower pullet mortality the shelter should be placed on clean land where ample tender green feed and shade are available the shelter that extension service poultry men have found to be the most economical and satisfactory is A shaped with the eaves about two feet from the ground and the peak of the roof about 5 feet 10 inches the shelter is 9 by 10 feet in size and will accommodate pullets the use of the summer range shelter helps to eliminate disease and intestinal pa parasites puts vigor into the pullets and makes for better egg size and production by properly developing the birds brown said |
