. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. SYSTEMS OF POULTRY KEEPING 85 from 80 to 120 square feet, and is given a yard of only two or three times the area of the house floor. Under such conditions poultry can be kept healthy and made productive only by the most careful management, including regular provision for exercise and the variety of vegetable and animal foods that they get when foraging on a good range. If carefully managed, small flocks so kept will usually show a better profit per hen and better returns for the area of ground that they occupy than flocks kept on range.
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. SYSTEMS OF POULTRY KEEPING 85 from 80 to 120 square feet, and is given a yard of only two or three times the area of the house floor. Under such conditions poultry can be kept healthy and made productive only by the most careful management, including regular provision for exercise and the variety of vegetable and animal foods that they get when foraging on a good range. If carefully managed, small flocks so kept will usually show a better profit per hen and better returns for the area of ground that they occupy than flocks kept on range. Larger flocks under the same conditions do not, as a rule, give returns proportionate to those from the small flocks. Hence it was natural for the town poultry keeper, instead of adding to the original. Fig. 88. Typical breeding-stock house'(intensive plan). The yards here are only 50 feet long, though available land is practically unlimited flock when increasing his stock, to multiply his flocks, just as the Rhode Island farmer did, and thus to develop the intensive system. Intensive systems. When the small flock in close quarters is made the unit, and the conditions duplicated indefinitely, an inten- sive system is developed. By such a system the apparent poultry capacity of any given area is very large. Four or five hundred hens to the acre the advocate of intensive methods did not consider crowding, and some systems were calculated for double those numbers. The difference between a system providing for four or five hundred hens to the acre and one providing for eight hundred or a thousand was principally in the allowance of yard room. The smaller numbers might be given yards large enough for a part of the yard to keep in grass under favorable conditions; the larger. 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 origin
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