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MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 369 



The New Poultry Breeding House at Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station 



The new poultry breeding house, which replaces the one blown down in the hurricane, is 18 

 feet deep and 126 feet long. There are twenty-four pens, each 5 feet by 14 and capable of taking 

 care of nineteen females and a male, or a total of 480 birds for the house. The house is so ar- 

 ranged that two or four units can be run together. A room 6 feet by 14 at one end of the house, 

 allows some temporary storage of feed. eggs, and ei|uipmenl and contains the control of the water 

 supply. A 4-foot-wide service alley runs the length of the house, making it practically impossible 

 for adjoining matings to become mixed. A solid board partition separates the alley from the pens. 

 Each pen contains a wall feed hopper, a droppings pit, and six ne^ts which allows about one nest 

 for each three females. There are joint watering receptacles and drains for each two pens. 



The house is insulated mostly with composition board although shavings have been used at 

 the base of all walls under the windows, except in front. Cement floors and foundations and a 

 galvanized rat shield twelve inches high should make the house reasonably rat-proof. 



Each pen has a single standard sash for light and ventilation, and there is a 6-inch by 10-foot 

 slot ventilator at the eaves in front for each two pens. This slot is easily controlled by means 

 of an inexpensive adjuster. 



