The national standard squab book . are as follows:Length, sixteen feet; width, twelve feet; length of flying penfrom end of house to end of yard, twenty feet; distance fromfloor of squab house to ridgepole, twelve feet; two windowsin south wall of squab house, each two feet two inches wideand three feet ten inches high. One window in north wall ofsquab house, two feet two inches wide and three feet teninches high. There is a passageway on the north side of thesquab house three feet wide, separating the north wall fromthe vertical row of nest boxes. The door of the squab houseopens into this pa
The national standard squab book . are as follows:Length, sixteen feet; width, twelve feet; length of flying penfrom end of house to end of yard, twenty feet; distance fromfloor of squab house to ridgepole, twelve feet; two windowsin south wall of squab house, each two feet two inches wideand three feet ten inches high. One window in north wall ofsquab house, two feet two inches wide and three feet teninches high. There is a passageway on the north side of thesquab house three feet wide, separating the north wall fromthe vertical row of nest boxes. The door of the squab houseopens into this passageway so that you can enter the housewithout being seen by the birds, and without disturbing them. If you wish, you can set up rows of nest boxes on theeast and west walls of the squab house and accommodate morepairs. You cannot have a passageway behind these nestboxes on the east and west walls, but will approach themfrom the front by entering the interior of the squab housethrough a wire door which leads from the INTERIOR OF MULTIPLE UNIT HOUSE. This is one of our houses. The drinking fountains stand in tlie passageway andtheir fronts project through the wire netting under the first row of nest boxes. Thenest boxes are empty egg crates. The feed troughs are inside of each pen. Inother houses, we set the feed trouglis alongside the drinlcers in the alleyway andcut away the netting so the birds can feed from them. We like the last arrange-ment best because the troughs can be filled more quickly from the passageway, andthe time of opening and closing doors and going into pens is saved. 40 THE UNIT HOUSE 41 Build the first unit so tliat you can extend it either to theeast or west (as your land lies) to increase your accommoda-tions. Your squab house will always remain sixteen feetfrom north to south, but it may be either twelve feet fromeast to west, for one unit, or twenty-four feet for two units,or thirty-six feet for three units, and so on. Of course youcan bui
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