56 POULTRIY-CRAFT. 
56. Receptacles for Grit and Shell.— One of the most convenient of 
these is a metal trough, like a piece of the water gutter used under the eaves 
of buildings. This can be either attached to the wall or placed in a partition. 
A similar grit trough is easily made of wood, by making a short V-shaped 
trough with the angle of the sides very acute. In one side holes can be bored 
by which to hang the trough to nails driven into the wall at a suitable height 
from the floor. Boxes for grit and shell are sometimes made with hopper-like 
receptacles for a store of grit, the bottom of the box being a tray into which 
the grit feeds from the hopper as fast as taken from the tray. 
Fig. 43. A-Shaped Coop with Pen and Movable 
Shelter Board. 
Fig. 42. Common A-shaped Coop. 
57. Coops for Broody Hens. — A small coop built into a corner of each 
laying pen, close to the roof, is a common provision for breaking up broody 
hens. Suchacoop should be triangular. The outside wall forms one side, the 
cross partition the other. The front should be of slats, one or two of them 
being movable to admit the hens. Detached coops, having slat bottoms are 
often used, and are by some preferred, because the hens have to roost on the 
slats, and cannot continue brooding, as some hens will, in a corner of the 
coop. 
58. Coops for Little Chicks.—Of these there is an almost endless 
variety, conforming generally to one of two plans; they are either A-shaped or 
box coops. Fig. 42 shows a common {A-shaped coop, without floor or coop- 
pen for the hen. Fig. 43 shows another style of A-coop with partly closed 
front, coop-pen, and movable shelter board to keep out sun and rain. This 
a coop may be made either 
| with or without floor. A 
permanent floor in a coop 
of this shape is objection- 
able because of the diffi- 
culty of keeping the corners 
between floor and_ sides 
clean. This can be over- 
sHhH a come by using a movable 
— 2 floor, which is easily made 
to slide in grooves formed 
by cleats near the bottom, (inside), of the sides of the roof. The coop from 
which the illustration was taken was of matched flooring, the sides of the 
roof 22 x 28 in., the angle between them a right angle; the coop pen 4 ft. long. 
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Fig. 44. Convenient Box Coop with Knock-down Pen. 
