COOPS AND BUILDINGS FOR POULTRY 



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not as a single house but as a series of standard houses so placed 

 that the sides and roofs are continuous, and that one end of each 

 house, after the first, may be dispensed with. 



The significance of the distinction is that when the continuous 

 house is considered and constructed as a series of standard-size 

 houses, the conditions desirable in a poultry house are obtained in 

 the same way in every part of the 

 series, but that when the series is re- 

 garded as the unit, almost invariably 

 a construction seems admissible which 

 gives different conditions in different 

 divisions, and very unsatisfactory con- 

 ditions in most of them. 



Styles of roof. The equal-slope 

 double-pitch roof and the shed roof 

 are the styles of roof most used for 

 poultry houses. In single, very nearly fig. 141. Ground plan 



Fig. 142. Front elevation 



Fig. 143. Front frame 



Fig. 144. East (end) elevation, 

 battened 



Fig. 145. End frame and cross 

 section 



DIAGRAMS OF STANDARD-SIZE POULTRY-HOUSE UNIT 

 (Scale, ^-inch to the foot) 



