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least in the way and do not obstruct the sunlight, and are most accessible 

 for cleaning, gathering eggs, etc. However, they are along the coldest 

 part of the house and most exposed to the wind blowing from the south 

 through the open windows. Fig. 47-8 has the roosting arrangement 

 against the partition, presumably the warmest part of the house, made 

 doubly so by placing the roosting compartments of two pens against the 

 same partition. With a wind-shield at the south end of each roosting 

 compartment and with the window opening directly in front, the wind 

 cannot blow upon the fowls while on the perches. This method some- 

 what obstructs the light, but is very convenient in operation and is to 

 be commended for use in each of the house plans shown in Part II of 



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FIG. 47. Types of pens illustrating arrangement of roosts, partitions, alleyways and 

 combination pen and scratching-shed 



this bulletin. The perch room must be made shorter and wider than in 

 Fig. 47-A, assuming the pens to be approximately square. This, how- 

 ever, is not a serious disadvantage. Fig. 47- -C provides for scratching- 

 pens with roosting, nesting, and feeding arrangements, but with no doors 

 between the pens. This enables the fowls to have the greatest possible 

 freedom within the house without destroying the flock exclusiveness of 

 separate pens. Fowls will return to their own pens to roost and lay 

 with great regularity. Figs. tf-D , E, and F show pens with alleyway. 

 The former is by far the more desirable except when a shed-type house is 

 used and the yards are only on the back side. Even then it is a ques- 

 tion whether it would not be more satisfactory to have a walk outside 

 the house and thus give the fowls the benefit of all the floor space. 

 Fig. 47-G has the advantage of a scratching-shed as deep as the house, 



