. Poultry production. Poultry. HOUSING AND HYGIENE 285 The term ''colony liouse" usually indicates that only one group is housed under one roof and usually at a considerable distance from other groups. Portable colony houses are comparatively small, so that a team can haul them froni ime part of the farm to another. Permanent colony houses of sufficient size to house a colony of a thousand birds are being used successfully on specialized poultry farms. In a few cases large-sized colonies of chickens are divided into two groups, each having its own pen. kept l"jri:ii'ir' f
. Poultry production. Poultry. HOUSING AND HYGIENE 285 The term ''colony liouse" usually indicates that only one group is housed under one roof and usually at a considerable distance from other groups. Portable colony houses are comparatively small, so that a team can haul them froni ime part of the farm to another. Permanent colony houses of sufficient size to house a colony of a thousand birds are being used successfully on specialized poultry farms. In a few cases large-sized colonies of chickens are divided into two groups, each having its own pen. kept l"jri:ii'ir' fii[on>- on every farm where iC'ourtes,\' of Kansas A^rieultural Experiment Station.) The continuous house, containing several pens, is somewhat less expensive to construct than colony houses containing the same amount of floor space as lhe respective pens. Its pens are better protected in extremely cold weather and the labor of caring for the several groups is concentrated. The contamination of the ground and the loss of fertility will be somewhat greater than with a permanent colony house, and a great deal worse than with a portable colony house that is nio\ed from place to place. The danger of epidemics travelling from flock to flock is very much greater in the continuous 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 Lippincott, William Adams, 1882-1931; Card, Leslie Ellsworth, 1893-. Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger
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