Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . ^ House—A170 A cheap little poultry house is shown inthis design. It is ten feet square on theground, the front is eight feet and therear five feet high. Where only from tento twenty hens are kept this little housewill be found very useful. The only open-ings are a door in the east side, the large dow shade roller, so that it may be pulleddown over the opening on cold days androlled up when the sun shines a curtain should be thin enoug
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . ^ House—A170 A cheap little poultry house is shown inthis design. It is ten feet square on theground, the front is eight feet and therear five feet high. Where only from tento twenty hens are kept this little housewill be found very useful. The only open-ings are a door in the east side, the large dow shade roller, so that it may be pulleddown over the opening on cold days androlled up when the sun shines a curtain should be thin enough tolet the air through freely. It is a splendidventilator for a poultry house because itlets the air in and out gently without any DESIGN FOR AN INEXPENSIVE CITY POULTRY HOUSE. PcRsptcriVE. View window on the south side and the littledoor to permit poultry to pass in and little house like this can be built if sodesired without so much as a frame, ex-cept two by fours at the top and bottomto nail the boards to and another piece oftwo by four for the door and windowframes. The window frame consists of atwo by four at the bottom and anothertwo by four at the top, spaced to hold thesashes in such a way as to permit themto pass back to leave the opening free. Itis a good plan to have a wire netting overthe window outside and a muslin curtaininside. A curtain may roll up on a win- FtNCE Roo3T£> > DROPPING Boards J> 0D 000 X Tence / Nests under Droppins»/ Boards. ^ Dusy Box. riG. 2 Ground Plan. 11 1 draft. Some poultry houses are builtwithout glass, thin muslin being dependedon for both light and air. Such houses areusually dry and it is well known that apoultry house must be dry or the fowlswont do well. A poultry house like this nuist have agood
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