86 



POULTRY HOUSES AND FIXTURES 



suitable drainage should be provided 

 for the cellar, which should have con- 

 veniently located traps in the floor. 



The cellar is reached by means ot 

 outside steps to be covered by slop- 

 ing doors, also by an inside stairway. 

 The outside steps will be used main- -, 

 ly in carrying incubators into the 

 cellar or in filling it with root crops, 

 etc., for winter storage. The inside 

 stairway will be used in the daily 

 work, being more convenient. 



Fig. 163 shows the floor plan of 

 the ground floor with feed room, 

 killing room and fattening shed. The 

 general details of the fittings for this 

 floor are indicated, but no attempt 

 has been made to specify plumbing, 

 location and size of grain bins, etc., 

 as these features will have to be adapted to individual 

 requirements. 



The refrigerator room will be found convenient for a 



i?oop over? 



FATTENING R< 



FIG. 167 END ELEVATION OF ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 

 FOR LARGE POULTRY FARM 



number of purposes. In northern climates, by properly 

 adjusting the outside icing door, the room may be kept 

 at a low temperature several months of the year without 

 using any ice and without affecting the temperature of 



FIG. 166 SECOND FLOOR PLAN IN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 



the rest of the house. Double walls are provided, the 

 space between them being filled with dry sawdust or 

 other suitable insulating material. Where table fowls are 

 to -form an important part of the farm sales this 

 refrigerator will pay for itself in a short time. 



The convenience of having a fattening room 

 in connection with the house will be appreciated. 

 This room, built 20x30 feet, will provide for 52 

 fattening crates in two tiers, with a total capac- 

 ity of from 600 to 900 fowls at one time, depend- 

 ing on their size. Detail drawings for the con- 

 struction of fattening crates are shown in Figs. 

 168, 169 and 172. Where a smaller capacity 

 will be sufficient and where more room is wanted 

 for feed storage, the killing room may be shifted 

 from the main building to the fattening shed. 



Fig. 174 shows a cross section of the fatten- 

 ing shed with special ventilation. As the space 

 between ceiling and roof is high enough for a 

 man to stand upright when under the ridge, it 

 is planned to provide a rough floor so that this 

 space may be used for storage of coops, brood- 

 ers, etc. With a large outside do'or in the gable 

 ^ w iM be easy to unload from a wagon into this 

 space with or without rope and pulley. 



The wooden fattening crates indicated in this 

 plan are easily and cheaply made and a full de- 

 scription of them, with bill of materials, is given 

 on page 87. Under many conditions, however, 

 the portable feeding batteries illustrated on page 

 87, which may be purchased ready-made, will 

 be found more convenient than any form of sta- 

 tionary crate. They give greater capacity in pro- 

 portion to floor space occupied, and as they can 

 be wheeled about wherever wanted, they save 

 much labor. 



For plans suitable for a brooder house extension to 

 be built in connection with this administration house, see 

 Chapter VII. 



Fig. 166 gives the floor plan of the second floor to 

 be utilized regularly as a man's room. If not wanted for 



in i-i I 



TROUT OF FATTENI/iG CffAT FEED TFtUGH QUITTED 



FIG. 168 FRONT OF FATTENING CRATE 



FIG. 169 FLOOR OF FATTENING CRATE 



