. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 251 , Nests under roost platform, entered from front and may be used without a top. If it is to be attached to the wall or placed under the droppings board, it needs a bottom but may be used with or without a top. Such a nest as this, sometimes slightly modified in form, or enlarged for very large hens, is the common unit in series of nests for both laying and sitting hens, and is the basis of most trap nests, the trap adjustments being attached to it directly or to an extension of it adapted to them. Wherever more than one nest is n
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. Fig. 251 , Nests under roost platform, entered from front and may be used without a top. If it is to be attached to the wall or placed under the droppings board, it needs a bottom but may be used with or without a top. Such a nest as this, sometimes slightly modified in form, or enlarged for very large hens, is the common unit in series of nests for both laying and sitting hens, and is the basis of most trap nests, the trap adjustments being attached to it directly or to an extension of it adapted to them. Wherever more than one nest is needed in a pen, the ordinary nests are usually made double, triple, or quadruple, — rarely more than four in a section, because of the increased difficulty of handling them. All nests should be mov- able. It is a serious mistake to build them into the house so that they are difficult to clean and treat for lice, and cannot be taken out and aired. The position of nests in the house may be decided according to other fixtures and the general plan, or according to the con- venience of the keeper or the inclinations and habits of the hens in the flock, — points which it is sometimes necessary to consider, as when hens contract the vice of egg eat- ing. Nests for laying hens are rarely placed on the floor (except when hens persist in laying their eggs there), because in this position they reduce available floor space; but when tiers of nests are used, they must begin at the floor, in order to get in the de- sired number of nests and have the higher tiers accessible. They may be attached to the wall and fully exposed to the light, or arranged to face the wall (making a partially dark nest), or placed under the droppings board with entrance from the rear and with a hinged cover in front,. Fig. 252. Nests under roost platform, entered from the rear. Long sec- tional nest box on cas- ters, drawn out to collect the eggs. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page im
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