THE BOOK OF POULTRY. 



House for 30 Birds on Mrs. Baynes's Intensive Plant showing Rain-shutter 

 Up. Note the Overhanging Drip-board at Top. 



The prime factors to her success are, in 

 Mrs. Baynes' opinion, scrupulous attention to 

 good housing, hygiene and feeding. As re- 

 gards the first, a good idea of the buildings 

 in use can be obtained from our photographs, 

 the guiding principle being to provide a super- 

 ficial area of at least 3 square feet per bird, 

 and ensure good ventilation, 

 dryness of litter at all times, 

 combined with shelter suffi- 

 cient to give warmth in cold 

 weather and shade from heat 

 in summer. To this end, as in 

 all well planned poultry 

 houses, the houses are open- 

 fronted, and also higher at 

 the front than at the back, so 

 as to allow of the maximum 

 of light and air reaching the 

 birds ; windows at the sides 

 also help in this respect. To 

 keep out driving rain or snow, 

 a wide overhanging drip- 

 board at the top and adjust- 

 able Hessian shutters are used. 

 These latter are also of service 

 in very cold weather in main- 

 taining equable temperature, 

 whilst, from their porous 

 nature, admitting ample ven- 

 tilation and light. 



The sizes of the houses 

 here illustrated are, for thirty 

 birds, 10 ft. 9 in. long by 

 g ft. 6 in. deep, and 6 ft. 

 in. high in front by 4 ft. 

 9 in. at back. For the smaller 

 breeding pens of ten birds, 

 the size of house is 7 ft. 6 m. 

 long by 4 ft. wide and 3 ft. 

 3 in. high. 



The whole of the appli- 

 ances here are well and sub- 

 stantially built, and whilst 

 eotailing considerable outlay 

 at the start will, if properly 

 looked after, last a lifetime. 



Mrs. Baynes, who has the 

 advantage of a wide experi- 

 ence in answering correspond- 

 ents weekly in The Feathered 

 World, sums up her advice 

 to intending intensive poultry- 

 keepers thus : " Do not over- 

 crowd ; the minimum ground 

 space should be 3 square feet 

 per bird, and the roof should 

 be well raised. Especially 

 this point be observed in tlie larger 

 here the roof is a fixed one and 



must 



houses 



not opening and adjustable as in the smaller 



types. The litter of the houses must be kept 



absolutely dry and constantly spaded or raked 



over once a day, and excrement removed. The 



dropping boards should be scraped clean each 



ame House with Rain-shutter Down, Birds Scratchi;.,, iii Liuu 

 the Net Bag for Green Food Suspended from Roof. 



