DOORS AND WINDOWS 



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of the door. The latter may be opened in summer for 

 ventilation. When shut and secured by the button 

 on the lower half, the whole becomes a solid door. 

 The same arrangement will also be found useful in 

 ventilating the poultry quarters upon warm days in 

 winter. Such ventilation, with plenty of sunlight 

 to keep the place warm, and litter in which the fowls 

 must scratch for food so as to get e.xercise, are prime 

 requisites to success with poultry in winter. 



FIG 55 : COMBIN.VTION DOOR 



Door Between Pens — Where a long poultry build- 

 ing is divided into a number of pens the divisions 

 must be boarded at the bottom to prevent the fowls, 

 particularly the males, from fighting. A good door 

 for such a division is shown in Figure 55. It is made 

 of lath in the ordinary way, but has the laths at the 

 lower part very near together, the spaces growing 

 more open as they go up. This prevents fighting-, 

 makes a handsome gate and one easily constructed. 



