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Title: Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ..
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Subjects: Poultry Farm buildings
Publisher: Quincy, Ill., Reliable Poultry Journal Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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oultry houseis extiemely simple. The droppingsboards are on the north side, two andone-half feet from the floor, and theroosts are about fifteen inches from thewall and eight inches from the drop-pings boards. The roosts are on hingesand are very convenient to handle whenthe droppings boards are to be cleaned.Then there is a pen next to the roosts,four feet ten inches deep and three feetwide, for breaking up broody hens. Thenests are placed under the droppingsboards, are portable and can easily beremoved for cleaning and when it isnecessary to replenish the nesting ma-material, which, by the way, is attendedto often. Great care is taken to cleanthe nest thoroughly, should an egg be-come broken in any of them, as soon asthe broken egg is discovered. The nestis a great harboring place for mites ifit becomes dirty and filthy. There is a platform two feet by two EBDINC HOUSE ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^° ^^^ from the floor,Agriculture. for holding the drinking dish. Each 64 POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES
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PIG. 116—CROSS SECTION OP BREEDING HOUSE POR MILD CLIMATESReprodviced from Farmers Bui. 574, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. pen contains a V-shaped trough for feeding wet mashor other feeds, a hopper on the south wall for thedry mash feed, and about four to six inches of dry strawis kept on the floor. It is intended to put a concrete floorin this house, but up to the present time a dirt floor isbeing used. There are frames covered with muslin on theinside of the open front, to be let down instormy weather, and yards 18 feet by 200 feet.Division fences are boarded 30 inches high fromthe ground with five-foot poultry-proof wirefencing above. It will be noted that this arrange-ment of yards allows each pen the use of a yardat least every other day, as the pens are 9x18.The following bill of materials for this houseis taken from Farmers Bulletin No. 574. alsothe plans shown in Figs. 114, IIS, 116 and 118. BILI, OP MATERIALS Use Size Inches Sills 2x4 Plates (double) 2x4 Ties for rafters 1x5

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