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POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES 



will provide room for raising pullets 

 enough to renew one-half the flock 

 each year. 



It is planned to utilize the lawn 

 at the side and at the rear of the 

 dwelling for brooding young chicks. 

 If they are not kept here too long, 

 and the brooders are moved at fre- 

 quent intervals, the lawn will not be 

 injured in any manner by such use. 

 When the chicks are large enough 

 to take care of themselves, they are 

 to be removed to the plot in the rear 

 where small colony houses are pro- 

 vided for them, and where they are 

 to run until the pullets are ready to 

 go into the laying pens in the fall. 

 The cockerels can be kept here, also, 

 until they reach broiler age when, 

 ordinarily, they should be disposed 



FIG. 42 PRACTICAL, METHOD OF LAYING OUT BACK-YARD 

 POULTRY PLANT 



This sketch shows how to lay out a good-sized back lot where chicks are 

 to be raised, and laying or breeding fowls kept in sufficient numbers to make 

 them a source of income. AA are outdoor brooders; B, the laying house; C, C, L, 

 outdoor runs for hens; D, S, colony houses; B, yard for growing stock after 

 the young birds no longer need artificial heat; F, F, hedge on each side of the 

 lot, affording windbreak and shade; G, the home garden. 



FIG. 43 FLOOR PLAN OF ELEVATED POULTRY HOUSE 



of, the amount of ground provided 

 being insufficient for raising large 

 numbers of chicks to full size. 



As sketched in Fig. 42, there is to 

 be a hedge on both sides of the lawn, 

 and the garden plot is cut off from 

 the lawn by a neat screen, to which 

 poultry netting can be fastened if it 

 is desired to make it chicken-tight. 

 The fencing about the poultry yards, 

 of course, will be wire netting, four 

 to six feet high, depending upon the 

 variety of the fowls kept. Fruit trees 

 should be planted in the yards, but 

 probably will not be wanted in the 

 garden. Flower beds can be provided 

 to suit individual taste, and if the 

 plan is carried out as here indicated, 

 the fowls will not interfere in any 

 way with having a most attractive 

 lawn, nor will they make trouble for 

 the neighbors. 



In this plan the laying house is 

 located at a convenient distance from 

 the dwelling. It should be hidden by 

 grouping shrubs in the rear, or by 

 a grape trellis as shown. The vari- 

 ous features of this back-yard poul- 

 try plant are indicated by letter as 

 follows: 



AA are outdoor brooders; B, the 

 laying house; C, outdoor runs for 

 hens; D, colony houses; E, yard for 

 growing stock after the young birds 

 no longer need artificial heat in the 

 brooders; F, hedge on each side of 

 the lot, affording windbreak and 

 shade; G, the kitchen garden. 



Many town and city poultry keep- 

 ers do not have a lot large enough 

 for a poultry plant of even the mod- 

 est dimensions here shown, and must 

 modify their lay-out accordingly. 

 Some may even be reduced to the 

 necessity of using no more space than 

 is occupied by the house and yard 

 illustrated in Fig. 41, and still may 

 find both pleasure and profit in a 

 well-managed flock. On the lot just 



