HOUSE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS 



young chickens from the weaning age until they 

 get pretty well matured. In many ways this kind 

 of a coop is not so serviceable or so perfectly 

 satisfactory as a regular colony house like the 

 one described in the preceding paragraph, but the 

 small coop is cheap, may be moved from place to 

 place quite easily, and fills the bill very nicely 

 where not a great number of chickens are raised. 

 This coop is 3 x 6 feet in size, three feet high in 

 front and two feet high in the rear. The bottom 

 is of matched flooring laid on cleats and is remov- 

 able, making it easy to set the main coop to one 

 side and thus it may be cleaned much easier than 

 were the floor stationary. The coop should be 

 built in sections, with each wall and the roof sepa- 

 rately constructed, so that it may be " knocked 

 down " for greater convenience in handling and 

 may be stored away during the winter without 

 occupying an excessive amount of room. The 

 lower two feet of the front wall is made of tight 

 lumber, while the upper twelve inches is covered 

 with one-inch mesh wire netting. The small door 

 for the fowls is contained within a larger door 

 (twenty-two inches wide by thirty-four inches 

 high) which gives the caretaker free access when 

 necessary. The coop has an adjustable hood 

 which lies flat on the roof when not in use, and 

 which may, when necessary, be adjusted at any 

 convenient angle to shelter the inside of the coop 



