Poultry house construction . POULTRY HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 11 BILL OF MATERIAL FOR LAYING HOUSE 18 BY 108 FEET. Use. Size. Numberof pieces. Length. Boardmeasure. Sills by 42by 4ilby52bv62 by 62 by 42 by 42 by 3 3044305656382836 Feet. 240352220784560304150144 Plates Rafters Do Studs Studs (front) Total 2,754 Feet. Sheathing surfaced one side for roof 2,860 Matched flooring for walls, partitions, and droppings board 3,200 Boards planed both sides for nests 300 i Doubled. 340 running feet of 1 by 3 inch furring for curtain frames. 300 squar© feet of f-inch mesh wire for
Poultry house construction . POULTRY HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 11 BILL OF MATERIAL FOR LAYING HOUSE 18 BY 108 FEET. Use. Size. Numberof pieces. Length. Boardmeasure. Sills by 42by 4ilby52bv62 by 62 by 42 by 42 by 3 3044305656382836 Feet. 240352220784560304150144 Plates Rafters Do Studs Studs (front) Total 2,754 Feet. Sheathing surfaced one side for roof 2,860 Matched flooring for walls, partitions, and droppings board 3,200 Boards planed both sides for nests 300 i Doubled. 340 running feet of 1 by 3 inch furring for curtain frames. 300 squar© feet of f-inch mesh wire for square feet of 2-inch mesh wire for partitions. 350 square feet of muslin cloth for curtains. Preparedroofing paper to cover 2,700 square feet. 8 outside doors. Hardware (hinges, nails, staples, etc.). Cementwall or posts (either cement or wood) for foundation. If posts are used the sill should be 4 by 4 inchesinstead of 2 by 4 inches, thus doubling the number of feet (board measure) required for Fig. 7.—Partition and cross section of laying house used at Government Poultry Farm,Beltsville, Md. Capacity, 500 hens. (See figure 10.) 12 .farmers bulletin 574. FLOOR. The best kind of a floor depends upon the soil and the use of thehouse. On light, sandy, well-drained soils a dirt floor is satisfactory,especially for small or colony henhouses. Such floors should be from2 to 6 inches higher than the outside ground surface, and it is advisa-ble^ to renew them each year by removing the contaminated surfacedown to clean soil, and to refill with fresh sand or fine gravel andearth. A board floor is generally used where the level of the floorin the house is from 1 to 3 feet above the ground surface and in porta-ble houses on land which is not well drained. Board floors harborrats and rot quickly, and should be raised some distance off the
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