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Title: American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Eggleston, Ernest H
Subjects: Pigeons
Publisher: Warrenton, Mo. American pigeon journal co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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f desired. However, if ground is not avail-able or scarce, the houses can be placed 16 feet apart, whichwill leave ample room for a passageway between the fly penand house in front of same. Each of these rows of houses should be divided into sectionsof six nest rooms each, with a space between as mentionedabove, and it is best to make these spaces 6 or 8 feet wide andclose them in as rooms. Any number of such little rooms willbe very useful for feed, nesting material, picking rooms andvarious other purposes. A ten unit nest room divided into sections, 5 on each side,with a space between, makes a very practical squab house, and5 of these 10 unit buildings would take up a space of 90x170 feet,which would accommodate 2,000 pairs of birds. PREPARING GROUND FOR SQUAB PLANT A location should be selected that will be convenient to water,where feed can be hauled to the plant in a wagon, and whileit is not advisable to build too close to your residence, vet the CONSTRUCTION OF SQUAB HOUSES 213
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214 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE squab house should not be too far away on account of thievesor meddlesome boys. The size of the plant, whether you live in town or the country,and the location of other buildings should govern to a largeextent the location of your plant. You should select fairly level ground, if convenient, a spacethat will enable you to face your building to the south. Aneast or a north front is better than a west front, on account ofthe afternoon sun shining directly against the front of thebuilding. The ground should bo level and graded up in a way the water

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