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 . of Joseph Tolman,Rockland, Mass. This is an early type of fresh-air building successfullyused through several winters. It is an ordinary double-pitch roofbuilding 10 feet wide by 20 feet deep, with the south end torn out andthe opening closed only by wire netting. Roosts are in the north building proved better for the fowls than the
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 . of Joseph Tolman,Rockland, Mass. This is an early type of fresh-air building successfullyused through several winters. It is an ordinary double-pitch roofbuilding 10 feet wide by 20 feet deep, with the south end torn out andthe opening closed only by wire netting. Roosts are in the north building proved better for the fowls than the closed house. the standard type of poultry building is so well known now thatit does not need a full description here. These houses are hip-roofed with the long reach of roof to the south and are built 10 to14 feet wide and from 16 to 24 feet deep. The front is alwaysopen and covered only with wire netting. No curtains are illustration from photographs of one of my first improved pat-tern Tolman houses. I believe that in fresh-air houses of this typethe fowls are much, more comfortable than in buildings of othertypes, and they are protected at all times from the ill effects ofweather changes. Fowls housed in these open-front houses show 1. FOR ALL CLIMATES 85 practically no check in egg yield, no matter how severe the winterweather changes may be. The fresh-air house is always dry and comfortable. In closedpoultry buildings in severe cold weather moisture collects on thewalls which makes the house very uncomfortable. The dampnessand lack of fresh air in a closed house, particularly the foul nightair that is breathed over and over again, causes fowls to contractcolds which develop into roup or other contagious diseases. Damp-ness and bad air also lead to frosted combs and wattles. Theseconditions of frost, dampness and insufficient fresh air are elimi-nated in my fresh-air type of poultry houses. In a fresh-air house the fowls have an abundance of pure, fresh
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