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POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES 



house, it is recommended that the 

 floor dimensions be 20x20 feet, with 

 the rear section 12 feet deep. The 

 rear should be 5^ feet high, and the 

 front of the monitor section 9 feet. 

 The low section should be 6 feet. 

 where it joins the monitor section, 

 and 4j^ feet in the front. Four 6- 

 light sashes should be provided for 

 the monitor top. Two sashes of the 

 same size are placed side by side in 

 the west wall opposite the door 

 and another is placed well up in the" 

 front section, on the east side near 

 the door. A solid partition reaching 

 from floor to roof is placed in the 

 middle of the pen and extending to 

 within 9 ft. 6 in. of the front, frorr 

 which point an 18-inch partition ex- 

 tends clear to the front. This partition is to protect the 

 fowls from drafts while on the perches and on the floor. 

 If a continuous house is built it is recommended that 

 solid partitions be provided between pens. 



SEMI-MONITOR HOUSE AT OHIO EXP. STATION 



Large Houses of This Type Must Have the Front 



Enclosed With Glass and Muslin for Use 



in Cold Weather. 



By W. J. BUSS 



This house is 24x100 feet in size. It is divided into 

 six pens, each 15x24 feet, and a feed room, 10x24 feel. 

 The feed room is located in the center of the house. Par- 

 titions of matched sheathing divide the feed room from 

 the pens. Partitions of two-inch mesh poultry netting 

 are used to divide the pens. 



A concrete foundation wall is used under the house. 

 A tile drain was laid in the outside bottom of the trench 

 dug for the wall. No wooden sills are used on the con- 

 crete wall. The studs are fastened to the wall by means 

 of an iron pin placed in the bottom of each and in the 

 concrete wall. 



No artificial floors are used in the pens. A concrete 



FIG. 95 A SIX-PEN SEMI-MONITOR LAYING HOUSE 



The house illustrated above is in successful use on the poultry plant 

 of the Ohio Experiment Station and is recommended by the Station as adapted 

 to Ohio conditions generally. The narrower opening's in the lower front 

 are protected by muslin shutters in severe weather. The larger openings, 

 also all those in the upper front, are equipped with glass sashes not all in 

 place at time photo was taken. 



well drained, artificial floors would probably be needed 

 to prevent the pens from becoming damp. 



The deeper openings shown in the front of the house 

 in Fig. 95 are fitted with windows for cold weather use; 

 the shallower ones, with curtains. The curtain frames 

 are made of Ix4-inch strips, nailed together at the cor- 

 ners. These frames are covered with a very thin grade of 

 muslin. Two doors in the rear of each pen near the 

 eaves are not shown in the illustrations. These are 20 

 inches high and 45 inches long. All windows and cur- 

 tained openings and openings for the doors in the rear 

 of the house are closed with one-inch mesh wire netting. 

 This netting in one of the curtained openings in each 

 pen is fastened to a removable frame, which makes a 

 convenient place through which to put straw into the 

 pens and remove the litter. 



The windows in the upper part of the house are 

 hinged at the bottom to swing in. The curtains and win- 

 dows in the front of the house are hinged at the top to 

 swing in. The doors in the rear wall of the house are 

 hinged at the top to swing out. Probably a more con- 

 venient arrangement for these would be to hang them to 

 swing in. 



The walls of the house are of a single thickness of 

 matched siding. The roof is made by laying one thick- 



floor is used in the feed room. On ground that is not ness of matched sheathing on the rafters and covering 



PIG. 94 ELEVATED POULTRY HOUSE AT MISSOURI STATE POULTRY 

 EXPERIMENT STATION 



this with one of the better grades of 

 prepared composition roofs, of which 

 a number are on the market. 



A house of this type, of a size to 

 accommodate the desired number of 

 fowls, should prove satisfactory in 

 places having the same latitude as 

 Ohio, and probably even farther north 

 or south. This house has been found 

 especially satisfactory during hot 

 weather. In colder climates the win- 

 dows in the upper part of the house 

 could probably well be double-glazed 

 to prevent radiation to a considerable 

 extent. It might appear, at first 

 sight, that the cost of construction of 

 a house of this type would be greater 

 than of a shed roof house of the 

 same dimensions. It will be found, 

 however, that there will be very lit- 

 tle, if any, difference in the 'cost, 

 when both houses are built of the 

 same grade of material. 



