. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... materials required for a colony house like theone I have illustrated are as follows; 325 Sq. Ft. matched flooring:. Three 2x4s, 16 ft. long. Pour 2x2s, 8 ft. long. Sixteen lx4s, IC ft. long. 6 sq. ft. %-inch wire netting. 8 pair of hinges. 4 hooks and scre%v eyes. 10 lbs. of nails. 8 ft. galvanized iron ridge. 1 lock. 3 sashes glazed. Editors Note: There are a number of good pointsabout this house that commend it to the back-yard poul-try keeper. One of particular features aimed at by was to make the house attractive in
. Poultry houses and fixtures. How to lay out poultry plants ... materials required for a colony house like theone I have illustrated are as follows; 325 Sq. Ft. matched flooring:. Three 2x4s, 16 ft. long. Pour 2x2s, 8 ft. long. Sixteen lx4s, IC ft. long. 6 sq. ft. %-inch wire netting. 8 pair of hinges. 4 hooks and scre%v eyes. 10 lbs. of nails. 8 ft. galvanized iron ridge. 1 lock. 3 sashes glazed. Editors Note: There are a number of good pointsabout this house that commend it to the back-yard poul-try keeper. One of particular features aimed at by was to make the house attractive in appearance,but inconspicuous. In this he has been quite successful,producing a house that is not only neat and trim, butalso low so that it may readily be hidden by shrubs orvines if desired. One good feature of A-shaped houses in general isthat, in proportion to the floor space provided, they in-close a smaller number of cubic feet of air space thanhouses with any other style of roof affording comfortableheadroom. This means that less material is required to. FA^D ELEVATION -END ELEVATION OF HOUSE FOR BACK-YARD FLOCK build them, also that they will be warmer in winter,other conditions being equal. Incidentally, this makesA-shaped houses particularly desirable for brooding youngchicks early in the season when ordinary lamp-heatedhovers make little impression on the general room tem-perature of larger buildings. There are some diflficulties that are peculiar to A-shaped houses, such as weak frames, difficulty in locatingperches, nests, etc., but Mr. Holmes has taken care ofthem very ingeniously. A few additional suggestions,however, may be helpful to other builders. The plans shown in Fig. 52 do not indicate the ex-act height of the house and we would suggest that theroof boards be cut long enough so that the ridge willbe fully 7 feet from the floor (JYi feet is better still) inorder to give sufficient headroom for the attendant. Thelow sides of the A-shaped house will not be p
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