Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; domesticfowlorna00rich Year: 1852 POULTRY HOUSES. 11 wooden top, is excellent as a sitting-room for hens. I have seen an old cu- cumber frame covered with wooden slabs successfully arranged for bringing up early broods. Be sure before you put a fowl to set that the nest is perfectly clean; if the hen becomes infested with vermin she pines and cannot set close. It will often be found cheaper to make a good fowl-house at first, than to be continually adding and patching. Of course if you have more than one breed of fow
Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; domesticfowlorna00rich Year: 1852 POULTRY HOUSES. 11 wooden top, is excellent as a sitting-room for hens. I have seen an old cu- cumber frame covered with wooden slabs successfully arranged for bringing up early broods. Be sure before you put a fowl to set that the nest is perfectly clean; if the hen becomes infested with vermin she pines and cannot set close. It will often be found cheaper to make a good fowl-house at first, than to be continually adding and patching. Of course if you have more than one breed of fowl, they must be kept separate, if you intend to keep the race pure. Where this is attempted, an enclosure adjoining the poultry-house, with three divisions of iron wire, will be found useful, if the space and cost can be spared. In these enclosures in wet cold weather, the poultry can be confined, with room to scratch and feed. The largest division will be for your laying hens and turkeys, and miscellaneous stock. In this space you can muster them, accustom them to be fed, and see that all are in health, and make the close observations which are needful for success. In the second you can place hens with young broods before they are strong enough to mix with the other fowl. In the third, and smallest, poultry for fatting. If just large enough for them to enjoy the air POULTRY HOUSE.
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