PO UL TR T- CRAFT. 



56. Receptacles for Grit and Shell. One of the most convenient of 

 these is a metal trough, like a piece of the water gutter used under the eaves 

 of buildings. This can be either attached to the wall or placed in a partition. 

 A similar grit trough is easily made of wood, by making a short V-shaped 

 trough with the angle of the sides very acute. In one side holes can be bored 

 by which to hang the trough to nails driven into the wall at a suitable height 

 from the floor. Boxes for grit and shell are sometimes made with hopper-like 

 receptacles for a store of grit, the bottom of the box being a tray into which 

 the grit feeds from the hopper as fast as taken from the tray. 



Fig. 42. Common A-shaped Coop. 



Fig. 43. A-Shaped Coop with Pen and Movable 

 Shelter Board. 



57. Coops for Broody Hens. A small coop built into a corner of each 

 laying pen, close to the roof, is a common provision for breaking up broody 

 hens. Such a coop should be triangular. The outside wall forms one side, the 

 cross partition the other. The front should be of slats, one or two of them 

 being movable to admit the hens. Detached coops, having slat bottoms are 

 often used, and are by some preferred, because the hens have to roost on the 

 slats, and cannot continue brooding, as some hens will, in a corner of the 

 coop. 



58. Coops for Little Chicks. Of these there is an almost endless 

 variety, conforming generally to one of two plans ; they are either ^-shaped or 

 box coops. Fig. 42 shows a common ^-shaped coop, without floor or coop- 

 pen for the hen. Fig. 43 shows another style of ^-coop with partly closed 

 front, coop-pen, and movable shelter board to keep out sun and rain. This 



coop may be made either 

 with or without floor. A 

 permanent floor in a coop 

 of this shape is objection- 

 able because of the diffi- 

 culty of keeping the corners 

 between floor and sides 

 clean. This can be over- 

 come by using a movable 

 floor, which is easily made 



Fig. 44. Convenient Box Coop with Knock-down Pen. ^ ^^ ^ grooyes formed 



by cleats near the bottom, (inside), of the sides of the roof. The coop from 

 which the illustration was taken was of matched flooring, the sides of the 

 roof 22 x 28 in., the angle between them a right angle ; the coop pen 4 ft. long. 



