CHAPTER VI 
POULTRY HOUSES RECOMMENDED 
Following the plan laid out for starting 
the business, the house to be built first and 
ready for the 200 yearling hens or pullets by 
March 1, would be the laying house 40x15, 
which would also be their winter quarters. 
This house is really the most important of 
any since from the hens in it you would get 
most of your revenue for the year. In looking 
over pictures of egg farms you will find the 
majority of the flocks are kept in houses 
sometimes 200 feet long and housing 2,000 
birds. 
SMALL VERSUS LARGE HOUSES 
If the majority of successful poultrymen 
use the long continuous house in preference 
to small detached houses, it certainly must be 
for good and sufficient reasons. The princi- 
pal one is that it is more economical both in 
construction and general maintenance in the 
same way that apartment houses are cheaper 
than single detached houses. Another rea- 
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