A Convenient Poultry House. (From the "Rural New Yorker.")

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1830, 29 March 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Convenient Poultry House. (From the " Rural New Yorker.")

It is vciy essential that fowls should be housed in a warm place, have plenty of light and plenty of warm, nourishing feed, to do well in winter. Not having good accommodation foi our fowls, we built a poultry house we like very much, and think very convenient. It ia ten by eighteen feet, and divided into tlnee compartments. The first one is for hatching, the second for laying and feeding, and the third for roosting. Between the first and second rooms are placed two rows of boxes for nests. These boxes are made with a slide that fits either side, but is kept on the side of room No. 1 nearly the whole time, thus making the nests open into 100 m No. 2, although the eggs can be gathered from the first room by lifting the slide. When a hen wishes to sit we place the slide on the other side, and the nest is in No. 1, where the other hens cannot lay in with hei oi distiub her. A box of dust and plenty of food and water are kept in this room dining the sitting season. The hens hatch more chickens and do better than they would if left with the other fowls. The third or last room is used exclusively for roosting, and is larger than the other rooms : it is divided from No. -2 by pickets or slats. On one side is a small door, through which the fowls can pass into the yard. There is also a slide in the floor, through which thq, manure can be dropped when the room needs cleaning. There are six windows in the house, and each one is protected by wires. Onr fowls are mostly Plymouth Bocks, and we find that plenty of sour rr.ilk and warm feed cause them to lay more egg.s. D.D. Eddytown, N.Y.