. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 156 POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 247. Interior of compartment house. (Photograph from Henry Van Dreser) part. Especially is this true of brooders. Some manufacturers make a specialty of supplying lamps and other brooder parts to those who build their own brooders. Roosts. Perches are required for all kinds of poultry but water- fowl and ostriches. Some breeders of heavy Asiatic fowls dispense with roosts and bed their fowls on the floor, but this practice is not to be commended. It came into use as a result of the devel- opment of a type of fowl
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 156 POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 247. Interior of compartment house. (Photograph from Henry Van Dreser) part. Especially is this true of brooders. Some manufacturers make a specialty of supplying lamps and other brooder parts to those who build their own brooders. Roosts. Perches are required for all kinds of poultry but water- fowl and ostriches. Some breeders of heavy Asiatic fowls dispense with roosts and bed their fowls on the floor, but this practice is not to be commended. It came into use as a result of the devel- opment of a type of fowl lacking in vitality and in strength pro- portionate to its size and weight, and unable to fly even to a low roost or to balance itself on it. Not only is it the natural habit of fowls, turkeys, etc. to roost at a distance from the ground, but their conformation and feathering are such that if their droppings are at all soft, the feathers below the vent become very badly soiled by voidings made when the birds are sitting on the ground or on a floor, while if the birds were on a perch, the soiling would be slight. Waterfowl which make voidings that are nor- mally semifluid are so formed that the feathers are soiled little if at all by the passage of the excrement. The amount of roost room required depends on the size of the birds. An allowance of 7 inches for each adult Leghorn, 9 inches for a Plymouth Rock, 10 inches for a Brahma or a Cochin, and similar allowances. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935. Boston ; New York : Ginn and Company
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