. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... ceiling boards nailed to ^•^x2-in. strips as shown incross section. The pen fronts are to be of a good gradeof wire fencing with the upright wires spaced about twoinches apart and the joints welded or fastened with wirelocks so that there will be no sharp wire ends to injurecombs or cut neck feathers. The pen doors are of thesame material and arranged as in Fig. 175, which makestheir construction quite simple. Fig. 173 is from a photo-graph of a house built in accordance with this plan butconsiderably largerthan the one shownin t
. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... ceiling boards nailed to ^•^x2-in. strips as shown incross section. The pen fronts are to be of a good gradeof wire fencing with the upright wires spaced about twoinches apart and the joints welded or fastened with wirelocks so that there will be no sharp wire ends to injurecombs or cut neck feathers. The pen doors are of thesame material and arranged as in Fig. 175, which makestheir construction quite simple. Fig. 173 is from a photo-graph of a house built in accordance with this plan butconsiderably largerthan the one shownin the drawing. Incold climates thishouse should bebuilt with doublewalls, the insidewall being oftongue - and -grooveceiling and warmlyconstructed through-out. In most in-stances a concretefloor should be pro-vided, but the lowerpens should haveboard floors, laid on 1-inch furring to ^^^ 175-PBN FRONT IX COCK-make an air space erei. house .. i Y\ If- £ 0 J IV ,R E ^ ?< /V - Z/iFdcirrg- A/I /ii-ochd. ?_ ?_ £ ADMINISTRATION AND OTHER SPECIAL BUILDINGS 89. FIG. 176—FLOOR PLANbetween concrete and pen floors. The following is thebill of materials required for this cockerel house. BILL, OF MATERIALS FOR COCKEREL HOUSE ITse S^= Length No. of Ri-marks ^* Inches Feet Pieces Kemarts Sills, sides 2x4 10 12 Sills, ends 2x4 14 2 Plates 2x4 10 12 Stuas, front 2x4 10 34 Studs, rear 2x4 12 17 1 piece cuts 2. Studs, ends & 2x4 10 45 Cut to fit. Rafters 2x6 16 30 Window and door sills 2x6 10 6 Roof boards 1x10 1100 ft. bd. meas. Surfaced. T & G siding %x6 1500 ft. bd. meas Ceiling- ^ %x4 3500 ft. bd. meas. Flooring for pens, doors, etc %x4 1200 ft. bd. meas. Furring for floors of bottom 275 lin. ft. Surfaced. Ceiling boards for parts 78X4 1600 ft. bd. meas. Door and window frames %x5 300 lin. ft. Surfaced 4 sides. Strips base of windows %x4 75 lin. ft. Surfaced 4 sides. Weather strips %x% 100 lin. ft. Surfaced 4 sides. Trim boards for partition 600 lin. ft.
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