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Bulletin 246. 



These houses were built largely out of odd pieces of unmatched lumbef 

 and for that reason were covered with tough weather proof paper to 

 avoid drafts. With good matched lumber, the building paper would 

 not be necessary. These houses are 11 feet deep and 9 feet wide, four 

 feet, six inches high in the rear and eight feet high in the front. Perches 

 are placed through all of the houses as far front as the door. These 

 perches should be made of 2 x 4 scantling with ends resting on cleats 

 nailed to the sides of the house three feet from the floor. This will pro- 

 vide perch room for 150 to 200 young cockerels, which number is de- 

 creased by sales as they grow older and need more room. The young 



Fig. "jS.— Summer house for cockerels on the range. 



stock from a number of these houses may run together on a common free 

 range (Fig. 78) and all will return to their own houses with great 

 regularity. 



When first placed in the house they should be well fed and confined 

 for a day or so, then let out for the first time late in the afternoon when 

 they will not wander far away and will return to their own houses. 



III. Construction of the Brooder-House. 



The "A" type of house is eight feet square, inside floor measure, has 

 12 inch side walls and is six feet, six inches from top of floor to top of 

 ridge board. The sub framing is made and both floors laid before the 

 upper part of the building is put together. The sills are gotten out first. 



