. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... part about foutinches long, and pointing forward a little, rather than witha square or right-angled turn. If this is done it will not beso liable to slip out of the hole in the runner under aheavy strain. In England, where portable houses are ex-tensively rsed, small wheels are often employed in placeof runners. A GABLE ROOF PORTABLE HOUSE Will Accommodate Twenty-Five to Thirty Hens, or May Be Used for Lamp-Heated and Colony Hovers. The house illustrated in Figs. 119, 120, 121, and 122was designed at the Pennsylvania Agricultural
. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... part about foutinches long, and pointing forward a little, rather than witha square or right-angled turn. If this is done it will not beso liable to slip out of the hole in the runner under aheavy strain. In England, where portable houses are ex-tensively rsed, small wheels are often employed in placeof runners. A GABLE ROOF PORTABLE HOUSE Will Accommodate Twenty-Five to Thirty Hens, or May Be Used for Lamp-Heated and Colony Hovers. The house illustrated in Figs. 119, 120, 121, and 122was designed at the Pennsylvania Agricultural College andhas been in use there for some years. It offers a practicalsolution of the problem of building a house that will meetthe requirements of both brooding and laying house. Itis about as large as can be moved by one team, requires aminimum of lumber for the floor space enclosed and givesplenty of head room without high walls. If the house isto be used for a colony hover the front window at the endopposite the door can be omitted, but where lamp-heated. FIG. 119—A GABLE ROOF PORTABLE HOUSE hovers are to be used, as illustrated in Fig. 121, the orig-inal arrangement is better, as it gives more even distribu-tion of light. This house is regularly built with flooring boards oicar siding for the sides and with a double floor, as shownin Fig. 14. Rafters are provided in the bill of material,but the original houses were built without rafters, the rodboards being run up and down and nailed securely together at the ridges, which construction is firm enough forall practical purposes. Fig. 122 shows floor plan as arranged for winter useof the laying or breeding flock. The floor is laid on 3x6-inch chestnut runners, with four 2x4-inch joists mortisedinto the top of the sills and firmly spiked. Fig. 121 showsa cross section with lamp-heated hover installed. Threesuch hovers can be accommodated in one of these houses,temporary partitions being placed between them, to beremoved when
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