. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... cause corns, which may later develop into back perch should be 10 to 12 inches from the rearwall and the rest spaced 12 to 14 inches apart. Roundpoles with the bark off make good perches, but should bewell seasoned before using, as they are much stiffer thangreen poles, which frequently bend so badly as to becomequite uncomfortable for the fowls. Roosting Closets In severe climates roosting closets sometimes are anecessity in order to protect from injury the combs andwattles of valuable breeding fowls. show
. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... cause corns, which may later develop into back perch should be 10 to 12 inches from the rearwall and the rest spaced 12 to 14 inches apart. Roundpoles with the bark off make good perches, but should bewell seasoned before using, as they are much stiffer thangreen poles, which frequently bend so badly as to becomequite uncomfortable for the fowls. Roosting Closets In severe climates roosting closets sometimes are anecessity in order to protect from injury the combs andwattles of valuable breeding fowls. shows a sim-ple way of provid- ng such a closet by nstalling a shutter n front of the per-ches, making itwide enough toreach from drop-pings platform toroof. The shuttersshould be made in sections, as here shown, when the plat-forms are more than 8 feet long. Do not use heavy ma-terial for covering the shutters, as it is not desirable torestrict air circulation more than is necessary to preventfrosted combs. .\s a rule, burlap will prove sufficient forthe 186—ROOSTING CLOSET FORLARGE COMBED FOWLS 94 POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES Platform Nests The platform nests shown in Fig. 182 are easily con-stiucted and will be found practical and convenient. Thebrackets and bottom boards are permanent while the restmay readily be removed for cleaning and disinfecting. Thebottom board is two inchesnarrower than the nest par-titions, so that when theseare in place there will be aninch space on each side ofthe bottom boards, whichmakes the nests self-clean-ing to some extent. Insteadof placing the front platformstringer flat, as in the illus-tration, many prefer to makethe platform two incheshigher so that the stringermay be set on edge, makingthe platform more should be made oflight-weight material, suchas white pine, for ease inhandling, but do not use toothin boards. Three-quarter-inch or 13-16-inch stuff is aslight as it is advisable touse. Nest boards should besurfaced
Size: 1925px × 1298px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectpoultry, bookyear1919
