. The business hen (a new brood). Poultry. CHAPTER IX. The Hen's House. Men build various kinds of houses for their own use. Some are con- venient and comfortable; others are never satisfactory. If we study 100 desirable houses, we find that they all agree in one thing. They are planned to meet the needs of people with definite habits and purposes. So with poultry houses, the breed, conditions of feeding, climate, size of flock and purse, and other matters which concern the owner alone must be considered. Therefore, without trying to lay down any definite rules for poultry house building we gi
. The business hen (a new brood). Poultry. CHAPTER IX. The Hen's House. Men build various kinds of houses for their own use. Some are con- venient and comfortable; others are never satisfactory. If we study 100 desirable houses, we find that they all agree in one thing. They are planned to meet the needs of people with definite habits and purposes. So with poultry houses, the breed, conditions of feeding, climate, size of flock and purse, and other matters which concern the owner alone must be considered. Therefore, without trying to lay down any definite rules for poultry house building we give suggestions from those who have apparently solved the problem for their own conditions. THE ESSEN- TIAL PRINCI- .- ^ ^-^ . ^-^^—^^ ,~^^ PLES. —On the White Leghorn farm of White & Rice the following ^ rules of house - ,,-^^^^__„^^-,^„-, building are fol- lowed. This farm biu. 19. WHITE & RICE'S HEN HOUSE, is 30 miles north of New York: "The three essentials in building a poultry house are comfort, con- venience and cost, in their order. Comfort should be first, for the reason if the hens are not comfortable no amount of work and feed can make them lay in the Fall and Winter when the high prices of eggs make poultry keeping so profitable. Then comes convenience. Have things just as handy as you possibly can, for you will find when you keep a thousand and more hens that having houses handy to feed, water and clean will save many days' work in the course of a year. One hour a day means over one month in a year. Last of all comes the bugbear of so many, cost. Cost does not spell comfort or even convenience. There are many expen- sive poultry houses that are both uncomfortable and unhandy. A hen nfieds five square feet of floor space, and to keep her comfortable in cold weather we must build the house low so she won't have to warm up an unnecessary air space, but don't get it so low that you break your own head when caring for the hens. Very good dimensions f
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