HOUSE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS 
young chickens from the weaning age until they 
get pretty well matured. In many ways this kind 
of a coop is not so serviceable or so perfectly 
satisfactory as a regular colony house like the 
one described in the preceding paragraph, but the 
small coop is cheap, may be moved from place to 
place quite easily, and fills the bill very nicely 
where not a great number of chickens are raised. 
This coop is 3 x 6 feet in size, three feet high in 
front and two feet high in the rear. The bottom 
is of matched flooring laid on cleats and is remov- 
able, making it easy to set the main coop to one 
side and thus it may be cleaned much easier than 
were the floor stationary. The coop should be 
built in sections, with each wall and the roof sepa- 
rately constructed, so that it may be ‘knocked 
down” for greater convenience in handling and 
may be stored away during the winter without 
occupying an excessive amount of room. ‘The 
lower two feet of the front wall is made of tight 
lumber, while the upper twelve inches is covered 
with one-inch mesh wire netting. The small door 
for the fowls is contained within a larger door 
(twenty-two inches wide by thirty-four inches 
high) which gives the caretaker free access when 
necessary. The coop has an adjustable hood 
which lies flat on the roof when not in use, and 
which may, when necessary, be adjusted at any 
convenient angle to shelter the inside of the coop 
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