1908. 
'I' IIK rural nkw-yokker 
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A HOUSE FOR 100 HENS. 
I nm about to build a henhouse for 100 
hens. Will you give a description of one, 
the length, width and height? I would 
like to build it in the bank facing the 
south. Would it do io build the back and 
two ends with concrete? The ground is all 
gravel, an ideal place for hens. 
Botsford. Conn. w. w. p. 
Tf W. W. P. wants to build a house to 
Keep 100 hens in, and docs not want any 
scratching sheds, or any breeding pens, 
the building of such a house is a very 
simple matter. A house 40 feet long by 
12 feet wide will give nearly five feet of 
floor space to each hen; that is, if he 
uses platforms under the roosts to catch 
the droppings, so the hens can have the 
use of the entire floor. There need not 
be any partitions except between the 
roost platforms, leiting the hens have (he 
run of the whole house. Or he can 
build a house 50 feet long by 10 feet 
wide, and divide it into five compart¬ 
ments, with 20 hens and a rooster in 
each part. Tf he wants to raise chicks 
*o renew his flock, or if he wishes to try 
experiments in breeding, and only ex¬ 
pects to have this one house, then the 
last named plan is better. A low 
house just high enough to do the work 
in without stooping, is better than a 
higher one, because it is so much warmer 
in cold weather. A house four feet high 
at the back, six feet high in front, with 
a double pitch to the roof, a short slope 
of five fee. hi front, and a slope to the 
rear of seven feet would make the peak 
of the roof seven feet high and give 
abundant head room. T should have a 
window in the center of each pen, two 
sash, each of six 8x12 glass, and a frame 
three feet square covered with muslin, 
hinged at top so as to swing up inside 
and be hooked to the roof on sunny 
days, on each side of the window. This 
curtain should be near the top, not over 
six inches below the plate, while the 
window should be 15 inches above the 
floor, so the sun can shine on the floor 
where the hens are. 
As to a concrete back and ends, I 
should be afraid of dampness; I think 
matched boards covered with roofing 
paper to keep out drafts would be 
cheaper and better. The moisture in 
the warm air inside would be apt to 
condense on the cold concrete wall and 
it would be more difficult to keep the 
house dry than if boards were used. 
1 he house should be set at least three 
feet away from the bank, cleats nailed 
perpendicularly to hold the paper in 
place, and a wide chestnut board nailed 
to the cleats. Then lie can bank up the 
earth against this board to shed the rain 
from the roof away from the house, 
without the damp earth rotting the 
paper, or the back of his coop. The 
earth inside the house should be a foot 
higher than the ground outside. This 
would be one way to build a house for 
a hundred hens. There are any quantity 
of other ways, and I would advise W. 
W. P. to get a book of plans for poultry 
houses and adopt the one he likes best. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
DIARRHOEA IN CHICKS. 
Can you give the cure for diarrhea in 
incubator-hatched chicks? I had a " hatch 
a year ngo and when a few weeks old they 
died off so fast that i lost nil but about 
eight or 10 out of 72. I am setting my 
incubator again, and would like a cure for 
this trouble, i have a brooder and feed a 
prepared feed. I would also like to know 
if any of the readers have the Black Span¬ 
ish fowls. h. s. n. 
Middle Branch, O. 
I'he batching in incubators of young 
chicks that have sufficient strength and 
vitality to live is a work that requires 
brains as well as constant care and at¬ 
tention. Thousands of chicks are ruined 
every year, both before and after hatch¬ 
ing, and the diarrhoea IT. S. FI. speaks 
of is only the outward indication of a 
trouble that might have existed before 
the chick was hatched. Overheat in the 
incubator is said so to harden the yolk 
inside the chick that it cannot be as¬ 
similated as nature intended, and the 
chick, after appearing all right for a 
vyeek or more, begins to be “pasted up” 
behind and soon dies in spite of all that 
can be done for it. Underheating is 
almost as bad as overheating, if con- 
tinuedi long enough for the chick to get 
chilled, and will result in bowel trouble 
just the same, but is less apt to be 
fatal to the chick. Some hens do not 
brood their chicks often enough in cool 
weather; everyone has seen young 
chicks begging to be brooded while the 
mother hen would pay no attention to 
their cries, but this is seldom fatal to 
the chicks, though it is a hindrance to 
their growth and thrift. The commer¬ 
cial chick feeds while all right when 
tresh and good are not good feed when 
carried over a season. Experiments at 
Storrs College showed that old chick 
feed was nearly always fatal to the 
chicks. It is probably because some 
of the ingredients become musty or 
stale, even when no change is visible to 
the naked eye. The best thing I ever 
tried for bowel trouble in cbicks or 
man is “Squibb’s Cholera Mixture;” 10 
drops in a teacupful of water, and give 
them nothing else to drink, will often 
cure chicks. This remedy can be bought 
at almost any drugstore in New York 
City, but seems to be unknown here 
in Connecticut. 
Black Spanish fowls have about “run 
out.” Very f<?w are kept now. I notice 
that one woman, Mrs. S. G. Job, took 
all the premiums on Black Spanish at 
the big Boston poultry show: possibly 
because she was the only exhibitor of 
that variety. The Black Minorca, one 
of the best layers of large white eggs, 
has taken the place of the old Black 
Spanish to the almost complete exclu¬ 
sion of the latter, georgf. a. Cosgrove. 
R. N.-Y.—“Squibb’s mixture” is a 
standard preparation for diarrhoea. Here 
it is: Tincture of opium, 20 c. c.; 
tincture of capsicum, 20 c. c.; spirits 
of camphor, 20 c. c.; chloroform, 7.5 
c. c.: alcohol, 32.5 c. c. 
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