. Biggle poultry book;. Poultry. Duck Culture, described the house in which he keeps his breeding ducks through the winter as covering fifteen b}' two hundred feet floor space, having five-foot posts in the rear and four-foot posts in front, and an uneven double roof, tlie short slant being in the rear. There is a walk through the rear, three and one-half feet wide. The building is divided every twenty-four feet into pens, in each of which forty ducks are wintered. The partitions are but two feet high. The walk is separated from the pens by lath three inches apart, to allow the birds to feed a
. Biggle poultry book;. Poultry. Duck Culture, described the house in which he keeps his breeding ducks through the winter as covering fifteen b}' two hundred feet floor space, having five-foot posts in the rear and four-foot posts in front, and an uneven double roof, tlie short slant being in the rear. There is a walk through the rear, three and one-half feet wide. The building is divided every twenty-four feet into pens, in each of which forty ducks are wintered. The partitions are but two feet high. The walk is separated from the pens by lath three inches apart, to allow the birds to feed and drink from troughs placed in the walk. This arrangement enables. ONE OF JAMES RANKIN'S IHi^K IKiIsls an attendant to feed and water the whole houseful in a few minutes, a wheelbarrow or truck being used for carrying supplies ; it also prevents waste of feed or fouling of the feed or water. Only ten feet of this slat partition along the walk in each pen is used for feed, and four feet is made movable so that the attend- ant can enter with barrow to clean out the pens. The other ten feet along the walk is lined with the nests, which are fifteen inches square, the Vjack and division boards being a foot high and the board next to the pen biit four inches, or just high enough to keep the nest material in. This latter consists of cut straw or hay, which is kept dry and clean, thus preventing the eggs from becoming soiled and stained. With such a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, Wilmer Atkinson co.
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