. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... e illustration shows how to make a small yard lookneat and trim with but little trouble or expense. 26 POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES will provide room for raising pulletsenough to renew one-half the flockeach year. It is planned to utilize the lawnat the side and at the rear of thedwelling for brooding young they are not kept here too long,and the brooders are moved at fre-quent intervals, the lawn will not beinjured in any manner by such the chicks are large enoughto take care of themselves, they aretobe removed
. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... e illustration shows how to make a small yard lookneat and trim with but little trouble or expense. 26 POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES will provide room for raising pulletsenough to renew one-half the flockeach year. It is planned to utilize the lawnat the side and at the rear of thedwelling for brooding young they are not kept here too long,and the brooders are moved at fre-quent intervals, the lawn will not beinjured in any manner by such the chicks are large enoughto take care of themselves, they aretobe removed to the plot in the rearwhere small colony houses are pro-vided for them, and where they areto run until the pullets are ready togo into the laying pens in the cockerels can be kept here. also,until they reach broiler age when,ordinarily, they should be disposed tn— wv tMjuSU i-^^;— TRAPDOOR. WAXEFi - 1 ^. -? -Hir • f 1 ? P 11 \. r \v : li i. : c ::.;=:^ . ? ^ . ii i t -i 1 ?? ;. ^ 3 i £IU:!^^= ==^^.i 1 PIG. 43—FLOOR PLAN OF E. FIG. 42—PRACTICAL METHOD OF LAYING OUT BACK-YARDPOULTRY PLANT This sketch shows how to lay out a good-sized back lot where chicks areto be raised, and laying or breeding fowls kept in sufficient numbers to makethem a source of income. AA are outdoor brooders: B, the laying- house; C, C. L,outdoor runs for hens; D. S. colony houses; E. yard for growing stock afterthe young birds no longer need artificial heat; F. F, hedge on each side of thelot. affording windbreak and shade; G, the home garden. LEVATED POULTRY HOUSE of, the amount of ground providedbeing insufficient for raising largenumbers of chicks to full size. As sketched in Fig. 42, there is tobe a hedge on both sides of the lawn,and the garden plot is cut oflf fromthe lawn by a neat screen, to whichpoultry netting can be fastened if itis desired to make it fencing about the poultry yards,of course, will be wire netting, fourto six feet high, depending up
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