. Our farm and building book. . seasier to build a satisfactory stablefor any other domestic animal thanit is for chickens, unless we are sat-isfied with what is commonly termeda curtain-front house. The phrase curtain-front simply meansthat some of the openings are coveredwith thin cotton instead of glass. Itseems to have solved the problem ofhow to make a chicken house light,airy and dry, but not all curtain-fronthouses work alike. A great deal de-pends on the head room. A few henshave not body warmth enough to heata great deal of space. You cannot havegood ventilation without heat. The so-l
. Our farm and building book. . seasier to build a satisfactory stablefor any other domestic animal thanit is for chickens, unless we are sat-isfied with what is commonly termeda curtain-front house. The phrase curtain-front simply meansthat some of the openings are coveredwith thin cotton instead of glass. Itseems to have solved the problem ofhow to make a chicken house light,airy and dry, but not all curtain-fronthouses work alike. A great deal de-pends on the head room. A few henshave not body warmth enough to heata great deal of space. You cannot havegood ventilation without heat. The so-lution seems to be to build a compara-tively small house with a low poultrymen build their curtain-front houses as low as 2 feet at theback and only about 6 feet high in thefront. But this makes a back-aching job intaking care of the fowls unless the at-tendant is built on the shorty require little head room. Mostpoultry houses are built to accommodatethe attendant to the detriment of thehens. SCRATCHING 8xll. HATCHING-5HCD 8xll
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