. Our domestic birds; . or three persons during the greaterpart of the year. Houses and yards. For a dozen medium-sized fowls thehouse should be about 8 ft. X 8 ft. on the ground, with the highestpoint of the roofabout 6 or 7 feetfrom the floor. Thegeneral rule is tomake the poultryhouse face the sun,and have the win-dows and the outsidedoors in or near thefront. The objectof this is to get asmuch sunlight inthe house as possible in winter, when the sun is low, and to have the walls tight thatare exposed to the prevailing cold winds. In the NorthernHemisphere the front of the house is toward t
. Our domestic birds; . or three persons during the greaterpart of the year. Houses and yards. For a dozen medium-sized fowls thehouse should be about 8 ft. X 8 ft. on the ground, with the highestpoint of the roofabout 6 or 7 feetfrom the floor. Thegeneral rule is tomake the poultryhouse face the sun,and have the win-dows and the outsidedoors in or near thefront. The objectof this is to get asmuch sunlight inthe house as possible in winter, when the sun is low, and to have the walls tight thatare exposed to the prevailing cold winds. In the NorthernHemisphere the front of the house is toward the south ; inthe Southern Hemisphere it is toward the north. In tropicaland subtropical countries houses are often so constructed thatthey can be kept open on all sides in summer and closedtightly, except in front, during cool weather. If the land on which a house stands is sandy and well drained,the floor may be of earth. The common practice where earthfloors are used is to fill the earth level with the top of the sill. Fig. 69. Small house used for fowls and pigeons 74 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS and renew it once a year by removing the soil that has becomemixed with droppings of the fowls and putting in fresh a house stands on wet land or on clay soil, it is better tohave a floor of boards or of cement. Fowls may be confined to a house for a year or more and laywell and be in apparently good condition at the end of such aperiod, but as the chickens hatched from the eggs of fowls thathave been so closely confined for even a few months are almost
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