. The business hen (a new brood). Poultry. The Hen's House. 53. Fig. 26. SCRATCHING SHED ARRANGEMENT. in hot days, as well as the large door in east end (which is left off to show interior) and which opens into an open front scratching shed size of the house. The low windows let -the Winter sun shine on the earth floor, drying and warming it, so the fowls make a dust bath of the entire floor. Roost platform, with remov- able roosts, nest boxes and feed trough, are shown; on the east end next the door is a box with three partitions, one each for shells, grit and ; Fig. 26 shows a
. The business hen (a new brood). Poultry. The Hen's House. 53. Fig. 26. SCRATCHING SHED ARRANGEMENT. in hot days, as well as the large door in east end (which is left off to show interior) and which opens into an open front scratching shed size of the house. The low windows let -the Winter sun shine on the earth floor, drying and warming it, so the fowls make a dust bath of the entire floor. Roost platform, with remov- able roosts, nest boxes and feed trough, are shown; on the east end next the door is a box with three partitions, one each for shells, grit and ; Fig. 26 shows a plan for connecting the house with a scratching shed. Fig. 27 shows how a boy with a small backyard kept a few hens in a piano box, while Fig. 29 shows a henhouse on wheels, often used in England for pasturing the hens on a grain stubble. This house or wagoii is hauled about the field after harvest, and the hens pick up the grain that was lost by the reapers. WARMING THE HENHOUSE.—Some experiments have been made in providing artificial heat. In Maine a house 150 feet long was well built, yet cold in the worst of Winter. A hot-water heater was placed in a pit at one end, and from it a line of two-inch pipes was carried the entire length of the building and returned under the roosts. This gave suffi- cient heat, kept the hens in good health, and the egg yield was main- tained. Stoves have been used in some houses, but not with the best oi success. A device for using a lamp in a small house is shown in Fig. 28. On a large scale, and in very cold weather, the hot-water pipe might pay, but the danger is in using the heat in milder weather—when the hens would be better off without it. Some poultry keepers follow the plan that has proved so successful with cattle; building a tight, warm building, pro- viding for a good ventilation, and leaving the question of warmth to the animal heat of the hens. H. E. Cook has described what he calls a "hen ; This was a room
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