THE CORRIDOR PLAN. 



gives the very narrowest form of the system ; 

 and the grass runs were kept wider by allowing 

 one run to two or three pens, which had its use 

 in rotation. 



The systematic poultry-breeder, however, 

 requires a great deal of accommodation besides 

 the sheds and runs for his actual breeding-pens 

 or flocks of chickens, and by bringing the space 

 for this into his range of buildings, he can 

 easily adapt the corridor plan to fairly propor- 

 tioned runs of grass. After a quarter-century of 

 further experience and examination of numerous 

 establishments, we still find it impossible to 

 do better than repeat here, as an example of 

 thorough comfort, facility in work, and general 

 usefulness in a range of buildings, the range of 

 houses and runs we designed for our own use in 

 1872, and which, since we published it, has also 

 been extensively used all over the world. 

 Indeed, either the single- or double-range 

 " corridor " plan, with modifications according 

 to circumstances, is probably the most used 

 of any, where a regular range of buildings is 

 decided upon. 



In this plan (Fig. 11) a single passage P P 

 runs up the centre, between ranges of house 

 and shedding on each side, this passage being 

 three feet wide. The entire building covered 

 seventy-five feet by fifteen feet.* The double- 

 pitch roof was covered by loose tiles, the corridor 

 being simply lighted by inserting glass tiles at 

 intervals. There was sufficient frontage each 

 side for three grass runs, or six in all, each twenty- 

 five feet by fifty-five feet, which comfortably 

 accommodated five or six Brahmas, or a selected 

 lot of cockerels or pullets ; but only five were 

 occupied, in order to give every such run two 

 months' rest in the year. The shedding on each 

 side, six feet deep from front to back, was used 

 as follows : The roosting-houses A A were five 

 feet wide, entirely enclosed by match-boarding 

 on the side towards the run, and at the sides ; 

 but the side fronting the corridor was only 

 boarded up three feet high, the rest being netted. 

 The sheds B B occupied twelve feet more ; these 

 were open (except netting) in front, but boarded 

 up like the houses for three feet high ne.xt the 

 corridor, and netted above, so that from the 

 corridor everything could be seen. The remain- 

 ing eight feet of shed fronting each run was 

 occupied by two small houses D D with small 

 pens E E, each four feet wide, of which there 



* We had the timbers put up and the tiles put on by con- 

 tract, in order to be sure of a roof to work under in wet weather. 

 The whole of the remaining work was done personally, during 

 a three weeks' summer holiday ; every door and gate being 

 made and hung, every stake driven, every board fixed, every 

 hinge and latch put on, by our own hands. Hence the money 

 cost beyond material was but small. 



were, therefore, twelve in all. Of these every 

 breeder knows the need ; we used them for 

 sitting hens, single cockerels which needed pen- 

 ning off, one of them for a hospital, etc. 



As to internal arrangements, the perches c c 



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Fig. II. — Double Range of Fowl-houses. 



A A. Roosting-houses. b b. Sheds. 



bb. Nests. D D. Small Houses. 



c c. Perches. e e. Small runs to i 



d d. Training-pens. pp. Corridor. 



