YARDING AND FENCING 



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close of the hatching season, these liens may he turned out 

 with the flock, and the yard used for young chickens. 



The fencing of a yard is a very important question (Fig. 

 43). If the yard is square, or very nearly so, it v?ill be 

 found, as the diagram (Fig. 44) will show, that more 

 ground can be fenced with the same amount of wire used 



Fig. 43. — A good poultry yard fence. 



than to fence a rectangiilar yard. Moreover, it will readily 

 be seen that the chickens in yard J^o. 1 of the diagram can 

 get further from the fence than those in yard 'So. 2. Ac- 

 cordingly, since they have more freedom, the former 

 chickens will not be so gTeatly tempted to try to get out. 

 A heavy wire fence six feet high, with a one-inch mesh at 



