BULLETIN No. 215. 



Figure 2. Portable Colony Houses and Flocks on the Range. 



dog can often be used. On some of the larger farms where 

 poultry is kept quite extensively, it is found possible to keep 

 the chickens in portable colony houses throughout their lives. 

 The young stock is started while the houses are near the farm 

 buildings so that they can be protected from their enemies and 

 cared for without a great deal of trouble. As they get older 

 they can be moved farther from the buildings out into the field. 

 Toward fall the houses are drawn in near the farm buildings 

 and placed close together so that they can be cared for readily 

 throughout the winter. 



A small house of the non-portable type is most frequently 



Figure 3. Long Poultry House at Wisconsin College of Agriculture. 



