CHAPTER III. 



SPECIAL-PURPOSE POULTRY HOUSES. 



A VEEY COMPLETE POULTRY HOUSE. 



The very complete yet simple plan for a poultry house 

 on the following pages was submitted by Charles H. Col- 

 burn, of New Hampshire, in competition for prizes offered 

 by the publishers, and received the highest award. It is 

 built with the windows to the south. Fig. 9, a, is a door 

 eighteen inches square for putting in coal ; b is a place 

 for early chickens ; c, boxes for oyster shells and ground 

 bone ; d, movable coops for hens with chickens. The 

 inside doors are at e, e, e, e ; boxes for soft feed at g, g, 

 and bins for grain are at A, h. A scuttle for the drop- 

 pings is placed at i, in the passage-way, under which is a 

 receiving box, and a track laid to the door/. This door 

 is hung with T -hinges, and opened only for the passage 

 of the box. A ventilating hole is left in the door. The 

 nests for setting hens are at k ; lobby for the hens at I, 

 and small ten by twelve-inch openings through the wall 

 for hens to enter the yards, are shown at m. Other sim- 

 ilar openings for hens pass from yard to yard are at n. 

 A small coal stove, 0, is used to cook feed and for heat- 

 ing rooms in the coldest weather. Lead pipes, p, boxed 

 up and packed with sawdust, run under the floor of the 

 passage-way from the water tank to the end pens, where 

 a faucet is attached and regulated that water will fall into 

 dishes. The windows are at g, nine by twelve-inch glass ; 

 each sash is arranged to raise. The roosts, r, are one and 

 a half by three inches, and rounded on the edge. The 

 platform, s, under the roosts, is three feet wide, with a 

 two-inch strip on the front ; the whole may be covered 

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