Poultry Hygiene 9 



this practice for a long time, but in the long run the vast 

 majority will find that thorough, careful and intelligent 

 attention to these laws will be one of the best guaranties 

 of permanent success that they can find. 



Poultry hygiene and sanitation will be considered here un- 

 der seven main heads, as follows : I. Housing. II. Feeding. 

 III. The Land. IV. Exercise. V. External Parasites. 

 VI. Disposal of the Dead. VII. Isolation of Sickness. 

 What is said under all of these heads is intended to apply 

 (imless a specific statement to the contrary is made) both 

 to adult birds and to chicks. No discussion of the hygieiie 

 of incubation, or of the relative merits of artificially and 

 naturally hatched chickens will be undertaken here, because 

 these are special subjects falling outside the field of general 

 poultry hygiene. 



I. Poultry House Hygiene and Sanitation 



A. General Principles of Poultry Housing. — In the 

 management of adult fowls there are in the main two 

 things to be considered, housing and feeding. A vast 

 multitude of methods of doing these two things to poultry 

 have been tried during the history of the industry. 



There have been published plans for poultry houses of all 

 conceivable shapes and sizes. Long houses, short houses, 

 tall houses, low houses; square, hexagonal, octagonal and 

 round houses; heated houses and cold houses; all these 

 and many more have had their advocates, and detailed plans 

 for their construction can be found. It would appear that 

 there must be realized here the primary condition of the 

 experimental method, namely the "trying of all things." 

 It only remains to discover that which is "good" in order 

 that we may "hold fast" to it. 



This discovery had indeed been made in regard to a few 



