. Barn plans and outbuildings . ^irs^^ Fig. 206—SUMMER HOUSE FOR POULTRY brooder with young chicks. After the chicks are a fewweeks old the brooder can be removed, roosts put in andthe chicks left there all siimmer safe from veniiin andthieves if the doors are locked at night. The windowshould be replaced with a wire netting screen. Severalhouses of this kind in use by the West Virginia Experi- 208 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS ment Station are six feet square, six feet high in frontand four feet high behind. They are constructed ofplaned and grooved hard pine, which costs there seven-teen dolla
. Barn plans and outbuildings . ^irs^^ Fig. 206—SUMMER HOUSE FOR POULTRY brooder with young chicks. After the chicks are a fewweeks old the brooder can be removed, roosts put in andthe chicks left there all siimmer safe from veniiin andthieves if the doors are locked at night. The windowshould be replaced with a wire netting screen. Severalhouses of this kind in use by the West Virginia Experi- 208 BARN PLANS AND OUTBUILDINGS ment Station are six feet square, six feet high in frontand four feet high behind. They are constructed ofplaned and grooved hard pine, which costs there seven-teen dollars and fifty cents per thousand feet. The frameis composed of hemlock two by fours. The cost of these little houses is approximately as fol-lows : 206 feet flooring for floor, sides and roof, $;sixty-five linear feet of hemlock two by fours, $1; onewindow, $1; roofirig, $; nailing together, $; total,$ About fifty chicks are put in a brooder in each ofthese houses and allowed to remain until the chicks haveno
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