AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 



fowl. With small flocks of ten to fifteen birds 

 this is more essential than where fifty head or 

 How Much niore are kept together in one flock. 

 House Room Also, breeding fowls need more house 

 Per Fowl room for fertile eggs than hens that are 

 kept merely to produce a large number of eggs 

 regardless of the hatching quality. More fowls 

 can profitably be accommodated in a house of a cer- 

 tain size during the summer time than during the 

 winter. For all-the-year-around work, a house 

 10x10 feet should contain no more than nine or ten 

 breeding hens and a rooster. Hens kept for eggs 

 alone, and with no male birds in the flock, can 

 safely be housed in flocks of forty or more at the 

 rate of five square feet of floor space to each 

 fowl. 



How often a house should be cleaned out de- 

 pends very largely upon the number of fowls in 

 Keeping the the house ; a house that is crowded 

 House Clean certainly needs cleaning more fre- 

 quently than a house in which the fowls have 

 plenty of room. Also, in damp weather the 

 droppings have a very strong odor and should 

 not be allowed to accumulate. On the best-man- 

 aged poultry plants, and where the birds have all 

 the house room desirable, the droppings are re- 

 moved every day. Use droppings boards under the 

 perches, keep them sprinkled with fine dry dirt, 

 sand, sawdust, leaves or other litter, and it is not 



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