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IN' 'POULTRY KEEPING. 



Continuous Poultry Houses. 



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The continuous poultry house, as the descriptive name indicates, is a system of similar 

 compartments, or pairs of compartments united in one long building. The single pen or pair 

 of pens is made the unit of the system. When a single pen is the unit, each pen throughout 

 the entire system, which may extend to a number of long buildings, is in construction a 

 duplicate of every other pen. When 

 the unit is a double one it is because 

 the plan adopted makes some arrange- 

 ments, as of doors, windows, roosts, 

 and nests alike in the alternate, but 

 opposite in the adjoining pens. 



Of the plans of separate and two 

 pen "houses, given in Lessons IX. and 

 X., the first house in Lesson IX. is not 

 adapted to become the unit of a system 

 in a continuous house. A pen of the 

 second house might be used as the" 1 

 unit in a short system, but the longer 

 the house the more inconvenient it is 

 to have to go through the end pens to 

 reach the middle ones, and I would 

 say that it would not be advisable to 

 use this arrangement for a house of 

 more than four pens. With the 

 dimensions used in my building this 

 would make the house 56 ft. long. 



Mr. Davis' plan in Lesson X., as 

 given, is not adapted to a continuous 

 building. It might be made so by 

 simply changing the position of the 

 roosts. The 

 plans given by 

 M r . Pattison, 

 Mr. Ryan, and 

 Mr. O'Brien all 

 show pens to 

 which may be 

 added similar 



pens, with the Section of Scratching Shed House Without Walk. 



same limitations C ground plan, Cl front, C 2 partition between sheds, C 3 partition between pens, 

 as I gave in commenting above on adapting my house to a continuous system. Mr. Gros- 

 venor's plan needs alterations all around to make it a good unit for a continuous house 

 system, though, as will be seen by comparison with some continuous house plans, the effect 

 of his arrangement is not so unlike theirs. It is only that dimensions and location of 

 openings and fixtures are made without reference to possible adjoining pens. 



By reference to the classification of houses in Lesson VIII., the reader may note that with 

 very few exceptions the features there enumerated may be applied in the building of con- 

 tinuous bouses. The three general styles of construction are all used in continuous houses, 

 while of the seven styles of roofs mentioned, only two the monitor top and the double 

 pitch east and west roof cannot be used with continuous houses facing south, or nearly 

 south, as most such houses do. 



Roughly estimating the materials for a continuous house consists merely in taking the esti- 

 mates for one pen or section and multiplying as many times as the unit is to be repeated in 

 ihe long building, except in this one point, that the ends of the building are the same for one 



