Open-air poultry houses for all climates; a practical book on modern common sense poultry housing for beginners and veterans in poultry keepingWhat to build and how to do itHouses that will promote health, vigor and vitality in laying and breeding stock . uilding as one sectionof the long house. The Gillette open-air house is 20x20 feet ground measurement,6-foot high walls back and front and 9 feet high at the peak. (Seeplans.) As is shown in Fig. 17, Side Elevation/ the roof pro-jects about 1 foot beyond the front and back walls, making eaveswhich carry the drip from rain or snow well out fro
Open-air poultry houses for all climates; a practical book on modern common sense poultry housing for beginners and veterans in poultry keepingWhat to build and how to do itHouses that will promote health, vigor and vitality in laying and breeding stock . uilding as one sectionof the long house. The Gillette open-air house is 20x20 feet ground measurement,6-foot high walls back and front and 9 feet high at the peak. (Seeplans.) As is shown in Fig. 17, Side Elevation/ the roof pro-jects about 1 foot beyond the front and back walls, making eaveswhich carry the drip from rain or snow well out from the build-ing. There is a ventilating door for summer use in each side wallnear apex. This door is 2 feet square (see a in plan), and inhot weather both east and west doors are kept open, making thebuilding cool and comfortable. There is also a window (b) ineach side wall about -t feet from the floor, made of two half sash,each containing six 8xl2-inch lights. These sash are hinged at thetop. Fig. 18, Front Elevation.* shows open-front (covered onlywith wire netting), location of doors, poultry slides, etc.; c, care the poultry slides, each 1 foot wide by 18 inches high, locatedat each front corner for convenience. In some of the houses these 67. 68 OPEN-AIR POULTRY HOUSES slides are in east and west ends near the front. The open-frontis 3Vox9 feet and is never wholly closed. Balance of front, exceptdoors, is hoarded. There is a door 2% feet wide on either side ofopen front. Each has a solid matched board door which opensin, and another door (top half wire netting and bottom half cot-ton cloth) which swings out. The solid door is kept open all dayin winter, except in extremely cold storms. In summer the soliddoor is kept open all the time. The screen door of wire and clothis used when solid door is open and it is desired to confine the s/nz ELEVATION * _ *| Fig. 17. Side elevation Gillette open-air poultry house; a is 2 feetsquare, ventilating door for warm weather use; b is
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