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Cockerel house. Figs. 240-243 show the exterior and parts of the interior of 

 the large cockerel house at Grove Hill Poultry Yards, Waltham, Massachusetts. 

 The house has an alley through the middle with small pens on the ground in 

 front of the walk and two rows of coops for single birds at the other side of the 

 walk. It has a monitor-top roof to give light to the coops back of the walk and 

 for better ventilation. The pens in front of the walk connect with the outside 

 yards. A house of this kind is almost indispensable on a plant which sells many 



FIG. 240. Exterior view showing yards. (Photograph from Grove Hill Poultry 



Yards) 



FIG. 241. Water pan 



FIG. 242. Passage 



FIG. 243. Front of coop 



high-class breeding and exhibition fowls. The floor pens may be used in the 

 breeding season for small matings. The only fault found in this house after 

 years of use is that the lower coops in the rear of the walk are not sufficiently 

 lighted. This could be corrected by making the passage wider (either by 

 increasing the width of the house or decreasing the width of the pens), 

 or by reducing the pitch of the front roof and enlarging the windows in 

 the wall above it, or by slight changes in all these respects. Some cockerel 

 houses have at one end or in the center a room the width of the building, to 

 which the birds are taken for washing and special fitting. 



