POULTRY FOR PROFIT 161 



HOPPERS AND FEEDERS 



Feed hoppers should be large enough to hold at 

 least a week's supply of mash. They may either be 

 separate and movable or built into the house. A 

 very convenient style, which may be used either in- 

 doors or out, is used at the Missouri Station (Fig. 

 23). 



California poultrymen generally prefer a long 

 trough which is built into the house, either along the 

 front, where the open front house is used, or along 

 the alley, where a house with two sections and an 

 alley between is used. 



In the model laying house described in Chapter I, 

 the feed box and water trough are side by side along 

 the outside of the scratching shed. 



A very good trough for feeding moistened mash 

 to baby chicks is made in the usual triangular form 

 and covered with a slat roof of the same shape, with 

 the slats sufficiently far apart to allow the chicks to 

 put their heads between. 



Every house should contain a bin for grain, so 

 that there may be no carrying of feed through the 

 rain in wet weather nor unnecessary steps in warm 

 weather. 



THE BROODY COOP 



On a farm where hens of the heavy breeds are 

 kept, and to some extent on any poultry plant, a coop 

 for broody hens is a necessity. Such a coop is best 

 made of slats, with slat bottom, so that the hen can 

 never find a warm place to sit in, and should be built 

 into the house, if possible, so that she may have all 

 the protection others have. At the Missouri Station 

 the sides of the coop are made of two-inch mesh 

 wire, as in Fig. 34. Such a coop need be only large 

 enough for the hen to turn around in. If a hen is 



