. Artificial incubation and incubators ... n wire netting if preferred, fromthe floor to the roof, making a door two feet wide and three feethigh at either end. Set the perches about two feet above thefloor, and as close together as deemed best, perhaps about sixteento eighteen inches is near enough. Put a small lath ladder fromeach door to the ground for the chicks to get up on, A shed ofthis size will house nearly three hundred chickens, and when shutin at night they are safe from cats or other nocturnal space under the floor affords a dry shelter during rainy days,or it might be
. Artificial incubation and incubators ... n wire netting if preferred, fromthe floor to the roof, making a door two feet wide and three feethigh at either end. Set the perches about two feet above thefloor, and as close together as deemed best, perhaps about sixteento eighteen inches is near enough. Put a small lath ladder fromeach door to the ground for the chicks to get up on, A shed ofthis size will house nearly three hundred chickens, and when shutin at night they are safe from cats or other nocturnal space under the floor affords a dry shelter during rainy days,or it might be enclosed and utilized for brooders and youngerchickens. Fig. 101 illustrates a section of portable fencing made of threeupright pieces of lx2-j- inch furring strips, to which is nailed abottom board ten inches wide and thirteen feet long; three feetten inches above this another furring strip is let into the three uprightipieces,inches abovestrip is naileduprights,masons lathfrom the boardcross strip,length laththis makes afence, six feet. and eighteenthat anotheron top of theFull lengthare nailedto the firstand halfabove that;light, neatthree inches Fig. 101. high. The sections are bound together with old telegraph wire,and are kept upright by braces of the same, fastened to stakeswhich are driven into the ground until the wire is pulled taut. In fencing the yards, the height will have to be regulated bythe breed of fowls kept. The Asiatics require only a fence ofthree feet to keep them within bounds, while the Leghorns, andother light-bodied kinds will readily go over a board or picketfence six or eight feet nigh. A few years since I put up somefencing of wire-netting five feet wide, with a board underneath,making the fence nearly six feet high, and 1 find the Leghornsare perfectly controlled by it; better, in fact, than by a picketfence, two feet higher, which I had been using. In putting upwire fencing, never use a top rail; it gives the fowls a foot holdto light upon, and
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