30 POULTRY HOUSES 



This house has 360 sq. ft. of floor space and will be large 

 enough for 90 Leghorn hens kept for laying eggs during 

 the winter months. This same house will be large 

 enough for 75 laying hens of the larger kind. The house 

 can be divided by partition into two pens 10 ft.XIS ft. 



The advantage of this kind of house is that it can be 

 built section by section as needed. Two sections like 

 t'-iese might be called a double connected unit house. 

 Any number of sections can be added to such a house 

 and all of them connected. When two or more sections 

 are used for large floors, the wooden partition between 

 each 20 ft. should extend about half way forward from 

 the rear through the house. 



As shown in Fig. 9, this house has the modern style 

 of windows, that is, two glass and three cotton-cloth 

 windows, which are shown in the front elevation. These 

 windows are properly proportioned for a front 9 ft. high 

 and 20 ft. long. If two units of 20 ft. each are built, the 

 cloth-covered windows can begin either to the right or 

 to the left of the glass windows and thus give a con- 

 tinuous line of glass and cloth windows or they may be 

 as shown in the illustration. The house can be built 7 

 or 7/^2 ft. high in front and be either 4^ or 5 ft. high in 

 the rear; the lower the roof or ceiling overhead, the 

 warmer will the house be during both hot and cold 

 weather. The two openings in the 'rear shown in Fig. 10, 

 are for ventilation, and should be open continually dur- 

 ing the warm weather. The air passing in through them 

 will go over the roosts between the inner lining and the 

 outer covering of the rear wall and the roof. This will 

 cool the house by carrying the hot air out overhead. 

 These openings must be closed during the winter. 



The inner lining can be nailed to the uprights; it may 

 extend from near the floor up the rear and overhead in 

 front of the roosts and dropping-board. This protects 

 the fowls on the roost from the cold that might other- 

 wise be deflected from the rear and overhead onto them. 

 Such protection is worth much more than it costs. The 

 best arrangement for the interior is shown in Fig. 6. 



