PRAIRIE FARMER'S POULTRY BOOK 



Verne Anderson's poultry house 



Comfortable Winter Quarters 



The house is the half monitor type. The scratching shed 

 on the south has an open front. Anderson has curtains to 

 cover this opening but never uses them. "You can't have 

 too much fresh air if you get it without a draft," he says. 



Above the scratching shed, on the south side of the main 

 part of the building, are windows which let sunlight in on the 

 roosts, and which can be opened for additional ventilation. 

 The roosts extend across the back part of the house where 

 there is never any draft. Roosts and nests are movable and 

 can be taken out for cleaning and disinfection. Just under 

 the roosts are dropping boards. The droppings can be easily 

 scraped off into a wheelbarrow with a hoe, and the space 

 underneath gives that much more room for the fowls to 

 move around when they are shut in in bad weather. 



The floor of the house is made of hollow building tile- 

 seconds — laid flat and painted on top with a thin coat of 

 cement. This makes a relatively cheap floor, rat proof, dry 

 and easy to clean. 



The materials for the house cost about $200. Anderson 

 did the work of putting it up himself. 



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