. Common sense in the poultry yard : A story of failures and successes. Including a full account of 1000 hens and what they did, with a complete description of the houses, coops, fences, runs, methods of feeding, breeding, marketing, etc. .... Fig. 5. I made a box, or rather a crate (for it had no bottom or front),4 feet long, 14 inches wide nnd 14 inches high. Tig. 5 shows a])erspective view of this box with the door partially open, and Fig,6 gives a section of one of the compartments. The top of tliebox is entirely covered; tliere is no bottom, so that the nests reston the ground; across the
. Common sense in the poultry yard : A story of failures and successes. Including a full account of 1000 hens and what they did, with a complete description of the houses, coops, fences, runs, methods of feeding, breeding, marketing, etc. .... Fig. 5. I made a box, or rather a crate (for it had no bottom or front),4 feet long, 14 inches wide nnd 14 inches high. Tig. 5 shows a])erspective view of this box with the door partially open, and Fig,6 gives a section of one of the compartments. The top of tliebox is entirely covered; tliere is no bottom, so that the nests reston the ground; across the front, at the lower edge, is nailed astrip 4 inches wide, which not only serves to strengthen the whole,but keeps the eggs and straw from fdling out; along the lower edge 78 COMMON SENSE of tlie back is nailed a strip 5 inches wide whicn answers the samepurposes as that at the front, and in addition lias the door hingedto it. The door consists of a single board which is hingedto the back strip, and when raised up may be hooked to the \\ A. Fia:. 6. top. In very warm weather, instead of a hook, we use a loop ofcord, which is so long, tliat, when slij)ped over the peg or nail inthe top, it still allows the top of the door to stand out one or twoinches from the edge of the toj) of the box. This allows plentyof ventilation, and to prevent the loop from slipping off the peg,thus allowing the door to fall down, we push a rough woodenwedge between the door and the top of the box, so as to keep thecord taut. There are four compartments in each box, each nearly12 , and when such a nesting box is i)laced within twoor three inches of a wall, the hens have ])lenty of air, and 3 et aresecurely held as prisoners. Two boys can carry these boxes any-where, so that they can be easily taken out to be cleaned. I made seven of these boxes, holding twenty-eight hens. Alongone side of the room I placed three, and along the middle I placedtwo rows of two each. The middle rows were placed
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