Open-air poultry houses for all climates; a practical book on modern common sense poultry housing for beginners and veterans in poultry keepingWhat to build and how to do itHouses that will promote health, vigor and vitality in laying and breeding stock . ? 74 OPEN-AIR POULTRY HOUSES. Woods open-air poultry house, 10x16 ft., portable colony type as uso<lby Wozelma Farms Producing Company, Silver Lake, Mass. (Photo byJohn E. Zeller.) CHAPTER VIII. H. H. Stoddards Open-Air Cage Roost HEX KEEPING POULTRY in a warm climate itis only a short step from open-front housing to nohouse at all or to s
Open-air poultry houses for all climates; a practical book on modern common sense poultry housing for beginners and veterans in poultry keepingWhat to build and how to do itHouses that will promote health, vigor and vitality in laying and breeding stock . ? 74 OPEN-AIR POULTRY HOUSES. Woods open-air poultry house, 10x16 ft., portable colony type as uso<lby Wozelma Farms Producing Company, Silver Lake, Mass. (Photo byJohn E. Zeller.) CHAPTER VIII. H. H. Stoddards Open-Air Cage Roost HEX KEEPING POULTRY in a warm climate itis only a short step from open-front housing to nohouse at all or to simply a roofed shelter. Theopen-front house will give excellent service wherethe summers are hot and the winters are cold orwherever the climatic conditions and variationsare such that a house is needed. It has been successfully used inthe far north and the far south, but for the south and for tropicalor semi-tropical climates a simple roofed shelter or an entirelyopen cage roost, depending on the frequency of heavy rains, is themost satisfactory method of protecting roosting fowls. In most warm climates insect pests abound, especially tick-likebugs and fleas. In the south where the soil is rather sandy, thestick-fast flea is a most pestiferous insect and annoys man andfowl al
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