ECONOMICAL BACK YARD POULTRY HOUSES 



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without confining the fowls or seriously restricting ven- 

 tilation. 



For numerous plans for small, portable houses which 

 also are adapted to the requirements of back-yard poul- 

 try keepers, see Chapter VI. 



FIG. 48 FLOOR PLAN OF HOUSE FOR 20 FOWLS 



Reproduced from Ohio State University Extension 

 Bulletin. 



A HOUSE FOR TWENTY FOWLS * 

 An Attractive House for Small Back-Yard Flocks. Prac- 

 tical and Complete in Every Important Detail. 



The house shown in Figs. 46, 48 and 49 has been de- 

 signed especially to satisfy the needs of the poultryman 

 who keeps only a small flock for the purpose of produc- 

 ing poultry and eggs for the home table. It provides suf- 

 ficent room for twenty fowls. 



This house is also well adapted for use as a breeding 

 house. If equipped with heavy runners and a board floor, 

 it makes a convenient colony house which may be moved 

 easily by one team from one part of the farm to another. 



CLOTH WINDOWS HINGED 

 AT TOP TO SWINO UP. 



NOTt- ALL. WINDOWS OPtNINOB 

 COVERED WITH I' MtSM Wlltf 



4-6" 





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FIG. 49 A HOUSE FOR TWENTY FOWLS FRONT 



ELEVATION 



Reproduced from Ohio State University Extension 

 Bulletin. 



If used as a permanent house, a concrete or tile floor 

 should be used. Two houses of this size and type set 

 close together and connected by a runway, may be used 

 to good advantage with a colony brooder stove for brood- 



* From Ohio State University Extension Bui., Vol. 12, No. 2. 



FIG. 50 A TWO-PEN HOUSE FOR BACK-YARD FLOCK 



ing purposes. One house, in which the stove is set, is 

 used as a nursery room. The other house, which is heat- 

 ed only by the warm air from the nursery which passes 

 through the runway, provides a well-ventilated exercising 

 and feeding room. 



BILL OF MATERIALS 



Sills (doubled) 84 linear feet, 2x4 in. 



Plates 48 linear feet, 2x4 in. 



Studs 8 pieces, 2x4 in., 6 ft. long; 8 pieces, 2x4 in., 4 ft. 



long; 10 pieces, 2x4 in., 6 ft. long. 

 Rafters 6 pieces, 2x6 in., 12 ft. long. 

 Outside sheathing 280 feet B. M. drop siding. 

 Roof sheathing 130 feet B. M., 1x8 in. 

 Thim lumber 200 feet 1x4 in. pine, dress. 

 For screens 50 feet, 1x2 in. 

 Two window frames with sash. 

 Two squares prepared roofing. 

 100 feet dressed and matched sheathing for ceiling back of 



perches and overhead. 

 This does not include roosts, brood coop, etc. 



A TWO-PEN BACK YARD HOUSE 

 A Modern Curtain-Front Two-Compartment House Es- 

 pecially Well Adapted to the Needs of Back- 

 Yard Breeders. 



A thoroughly satisfactory house, where two or more 

 flocks are to be kept, is illustrated in Figs. 50 and 51. 

 It can be built in any length, but is shown here with two 

 pens. The house is twelve feet in depth and eighteen feet 

 in length, making each pen nine feet wide and providing 

 room for about fifty hens, or seventy-five in a three-pen 

 house. Such a house as this should be built about seven 



WATER 



WATER. 



FIG. 51 FLOOR PLAN OF TWO-PEN HOUSE 



Nests are placed under droppings platform. Perches 

 are supported on cross bars, hinged at back to swing up. 

 For details of construction of partition, nests, and water 

 'platform, see Chapter X. 



feet high in front and five feet high in rear, with shed 

 roof and concrete wall and floor. The windows and mus- 

 lin-covered openings are designed for a moderately cold 

 climate, such as is found in the latitude of New York or 

 Chicago. For use in colder climates the size of the mus- 

 lin-covered openings should be somewhat reduced, while 



