POULTRY YARDING AND FENCING 



on the part of the attendant to provide plenty of 

 good clean litter for the birds to scratch in, green 

 food from the garden, scraps from the table and 

 kitchen, etc., often atone for a lack of yard room 

 for the fowls and make possible a success not 

 dreamed of by the careless attendant. 



Larger yard space per head is necessary in the 

 case of pens of four to ten birds than where fifty 

 or more birds are kept together. For flocks of 

 fifty fowls, fifty to seventy-five square feet of 

 yard room per fowl might well be placed as the 

 minimum space for maximum results; in perma- 

 nent yards, especially if uncultivated, at least one 

 hundred square feet per fowl should be allowed. 

 This would mean about three acres of land for one 

 thousand adult fowls, and that is about as " inten- 

 sive " as practicable ; five acres would be much 

 safer, especially for breeding stock. A flock of a 

 dozen fowls, more or less, should have at least 

 three hundred square feet, if they belong to the 

 American or English class. The Asiatic breeds, 

 with good care, will often do well on little or no 

 range; Leghorns and other nervous breeds should 

 not be attempted on a small plot. All figures given 

 are strictly minimum; the more space allowed the 

 better. 



The poultry keeper must remember in all these 

 cases that the less the yard room for his flock of 

 poultry the more constant his care in management 



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