March, 1912 
POULTRY HOUSE CONVENIENCE 
By E. I. FARRINGTON 
ko poultry in a poorly designed 
house and with few conveniences for 
making the work easy is likely to prove 
such a discouraging task that the hens will 
not secure the attention which is necessary 
in order to have them give a good account 
of themselves. A good house must be high 
enough so that the attendant will not be 
obliged to stoop when working in it, with a 
door wide enough so that the litter can be 
removed without difficulty, with windows 
or cloth-covered frames that work easily 
and with fixtures that may be detached with 
but little effort. 
Of course, it is not necessary that the 
house should be high enough in all parts to 
permit a man to stand upright. The shed- 
roof type is the most common and if it is 
seven feet high in front, that will be suff- 
cient, and it may drop to four and a half 
feet at the rear. If the house is to have no 
floor and is built on ground at all inclined to 
be wet, it will be necessary to fill it in with 
nearly a foot of earth in order to make the 
surface inside the house considerably higher 
than the outside level. Then several inches 
of litter probably will be thrown in. All 
these things should be considered when a 
house is being constructed, or what may 
seem ample provision for headroom will 
prove insufficient. And it is extremely an- 
noying to be in a house not high enough to 
stand erect in where it is necessary to work. 
It is not well, though, to go to the other ex- 
treme and build a house which is higher 
than needed, for it will be cold, besides in- 
volving a waste of money. 
The perches, dropping board, nest boxes 
and feed hoppers should be so arranged 
that they may be easily removed. In no 
other way can a house be kept sanitary. 
The dropping board may rest on supports 
at each end and the perches should drop 
into slots in a short strip of joist. Some 
poultry-keepers allow the dropping boards 
to rest on small wooden horses, which may 
also be taken out. This is a good plan and 
may be improved upon by attaching a sup- 
port to the dropping board to carry the 
perches. Then the lice have no direct route 
to the hens. Some genius has invented a 
metal perch bracket which has a little cup 
to contain kerosene through which the 
vermin would have to pass in order to 
reach the fowls. When perches are detach- 
able, however, they may be quickly re- 
moved and given a kerosene bath, which 
will free them from any lice they may har- 
bor. The mites have a way of collecting 
under the perches in summer—red blotches 
of them, the color being imparted by the 
blood they have sucked from the long-suf- 
fering hens the previous night. It is of no 
use for the hens to dust, as these mites in- 
fest them only at night. There are other 
kinds of lice which are kept in check by the 
dust bath, however. 
It is a good plan to take down the muslin- 
covered curtain frames in the Spring—just 
about the time, we will say, that Spring 
housecleaning is going on in the owner’s 
abode. They are easily removed without 
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