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Poultry House Construction
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Poultry House Construction
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Hens need a comfortable house which is dry and roomy and abundantly supplied with fresh air and sunlight. It never pays to overcrowd the fowls.
Small or colony houses and long laying houses make good quarters for hens, the best type depending on conditions.
It is easier to keep the birds healthy and to reproduce the stock under the colony system if the birds are allowed free range. Breeding stock, and especially growing chickens, should have an abundant range, while hens used solely for the production of market eggs may be kept on a very small area.
Detailed information on how to build and working plans of various types of poultry houses are given in the following pages. With these anyone handy with carpenter's tools may readily construct similar poultry houses.
Small or colony houses and long laying houses make good quarters for hens, the best type depending on conditions.
It is easier to keep the birds healthy and to reproduce the stock under the colony system if the birds are allowed free range. Breeding stock, and especially growing chickens, should have an abundant range, while hens used solely for the production of market eggs may be kept on a very small area.
Detailed information on how to build and working plans of various types of poultry houses are given in the following pages. With these anyone handy with carpenter's tools may readily construct similar poultry houses.
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Farmers' Bulletin
Number 574
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