. American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs. Pigeons. 196 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE When both liont walls are wire the light comes in below the chute and the birds can naturally see right through the wire nito the fly pen. The exit chute being higii up and not so easy to see, 1 questioned the birds finding tliein very easy, liut the second day they were all out in the fly pens and all readily found their way back to the nest rooms. By this experience I learned tiiat the aisle in front and the overhead chute will
. American squab culture; a practical work on squab culture covering every phase of the raising, housing and marketing of squabs. Pigeons. 196 AMERICAN SQUAB CULTURE When both liont walls are wire the light comes in below the chute and the birds can naturally see right through the wire nito the fly pen. The exit chute being higii up and not so easy to see, 1 questioned the birds finding tliein very easy, liut the second day they were all out in the fly pens and all readily found their way back to the nest rooms. By this experience I learned tiiat the aisle in front and the overhead chute will work as well with an open front house as a closed one. The California and southern breeders have developed a good idea in fly pen running boards. They build them on either side which is far better than the old ladder-like arrangement that is so commonly used in the east and central states. The differ-. FLT PEN AND SQUAB HOUSE READY P'OR THE BIRDS ence in these Iwo systems of fly pen perches is all in favor of the southern idea. The objection to the ladder plan is that it is hard to catch birds in a fiy pen with one of these constructions in it. If the birds light on the top round it cannot be reached, or if they get back of the ladder on the ground they are hard to get to. I was once visiting a squab plant and the owner had asked me to make any suggestion Ihat I saw flt, and in reply to my suggestion that I liked the single running boards along the sides better than the kind he had as it made it easier to catch birds, he asked "^â \'hy shoidd a person he catching his bh'ds so much?" In less than three minutes he was in his fly pen trying to catch a bird to remove a tight band and was chasing it all over the pen and scaring all the other Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Eggle
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