CHAPTER VII 



HOUSES FOR HENS 



If chickens are housed in sixty varieties of 

 coops, it is certain that apartments for hens cover 

 a greater variation still. The reason for such a 

 weird array of structures intended to shelter hens 

 is probably because so many poets and newly- 

 weds go in for hens. Such people have vivid im- 

 aginations, and surely only a quick and fertile 

 imagination could plan out some of the chateaux 

 dedicated to feathered flocks. 



Starting with the great poultry houses having 

 every modem device and equipment, costing as 

 much as a good dwelling, we can pass in review 

 actually htmdreds of various buildings. Among 

 the houses buUt especially for poultry we find the 

 shed-roof, the span-roof, the monitor, and hip- 

 roof; we have the open front, the closed front, the 

 house with scratching shed, the portable house, and 



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