SF 486 .T6 Copy 1 Building Plans for Poultry men and Practical M^ethods of Poultry Raising [...]... settings of eggs, set under hens, and not a chick out of 100 eggs in the incubator, all caused by the lack of vitality and crowding of hens CockBefore the end of the secerel proved all right on other hens : BUILDING PLANS FOR POULTRYMEN 14 sell me his $40 house for $20 and song, as he was greatly disgusted with the "chicken business." and his whole trouble was in attempting too much, overcrowding, and. .. natural for a chicken to stand BUILDING PLANS FOR POULTRYMEN 33 flat-footed and not be obliged to cling to a round pole or narrow roost I find the use of two strips about three inches wide, one being nailed edgewise to the other for stiffness forming a "T" shaped roost, to be very desirable and simple in construction Iowa Model of Half-Monitor Roof Type Poultry By H A BITTENBENDER, Professor in Poultry. .. their poultry ventures reason for it, too, is that the hen side of fami work has always fallen to women and children, until people had decided that any At the present stage of advancement one old way would do must be qualified, having much of "I'll go" and the proper kind of material to run his poultry venture on, to be anywhere near a successful poultryman BUILDING PLANS FOR POULTRYMEN 20 A Model Poultry. .. used for poultry runs Why Some we analyze Succeed and Others Fail the charactei's of the successful and the unsuccessful poultry keepers, we will find an explanation for the quantity and quality of poultry raised by each set of people One is satisfied with the grade of poultry he now raises, and if he saw a way open for betterment he would lack in determination to have better; wiiile on the other hand... floor space " BUILDING PLANS FOR POULTRYMEN 15 should be provided for each fowl For egg production, hens be profitably housed in flocks of 100 to 500 Yards The close yarding of fowls in long, narrow yards is to be avoided as much as possible Small yards are difficult to till, increase the cost of equipment, increase the labor of caring for the fowls, and tend to make the latter restless and disconGive... roof may be used on houses not over 15 feet in depth The gable roof is adapted to small colony houses for breeding stock For large houses over 15 feet in depth, use the combination or double pitch roof Roofing Materials Prepared roofing materials are most 16 BUILDING PLANS FOR POULTRYMEN Shingles require a 1-3 inch pitch and are exsatisfactory pensive Tar paper is not durable Use a good grade of roofing... sides of houses were made of glass But these houses absorbed so much heat during the day and cooled off so rapidly in the evening that the health of the fowls soon became seriously undeiTnined With this style of house, too, the problem of A BUILDING PLANS FOR POULTRYMEN 21 and the one door should invariably be on the east end The ground upon which the house is built should be well drained and with a sandy... presented the plans and description of a poultry house that is built radically different from most of the accepted BUILDING PLANS FOR POULTRYMEN 25 plans The idea for this house was suggested by A V Thompson, Salt Lake City, Utah, and is used with success by him The house fronts south and may be built from any convenient lumber that is at hand as most of it is protected by the roofing paper or material The... should be chosen for the poultry runs and houses where there is an abundance of drainage Then the nms should be ample and two runs for each pen of fowls Each alternate run then can be turned under and sown to a mixture of lettuce, rape, oats, and wheat, and whatever the fowls relish and thrives well in the locality during the summer Just as often as one run becomes divested of its crop of green the fowls... required for the house are the tw^o by 10 BUILDING PLANS FOR POULTRYMEN fours under the floor and for the roof and one by fours for the door No glass windows are required for the house as the light is admitted thru the open front door The door is merely covered with wire netting During a very cold winter night a canvas curtain is hung over the wire netting and fastened onto buttons on the frame of the . SF 486 .T6 Copy 1 Building Plans for Poultry men and Practical M^ethods of Poultry Raising