Poultry house construction . facing east or west. The gable roof is used extensively for two-storybuildings, for brooder houses, and for incubator cellars. This styleof roof is usually ceiled at or slightly above the eaves, or the gablemay be filled , with straw or some kind of absorbent material, whichtends to keep such houses dry and warm. The A-shaped roof isused for growing coops and colony houses which, with a wall 18inches high, provides a large amount of floor space with a minimum 8 FAKMEKS BULLET1K /VP 2X3*/7 // 3/33 * (fiber* /£ Tot?/ . 32/&63<?0/<?0 Fig. 4.—Cross section
Poultry house construction . facing east or west. The gable roof is used extensively for two-storybuildings, for brooder houses, and for incubator cellars. This styleof roof is usually ceiled at or slightly above the eaves, or the gablemay be filled , with straw or some kind of absorbent material, whichtends to keep such houses dry and warm. The A-shaped roof isused for growing coops and colony houses which, with a wall 18inches high, provides a large amount of floor space with a minimum 8 FAKMEKS BULLET1K /VP 2X3*/7 // 3/33 * (fiber* /£ Tot?/ . 32/&63<?0/<?0 Fig. 4.—Cross section and end elevation of colony house used at Government PoultryFarm, Beltsville, Md. Capacity, 25 hens. POULTRY HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. 9 amount of lumber, but increases the roof surface, which is the mostexpensive part of the house. A large amount of glass in the front of the house makes it warmduring the day and cold at night, as glass radiates heat very muslin, or a light weight of duck cloth, is used for cur-tains in the fronts of poultry houses. This cloth should be thinenough to allow a slow circulation of air without a draft, which objectis defeated by using too heavy a grade of duck or by oiling or paint-
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