Poultry architecture, a practical guide for construction of poultry houses, coops and yard

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...and has a ventilator on the roof, which makes it an ornament to the farm. Heing somewhat of a carpenter, I did the work myself, which reduced the expense.--F. A. Smart, Oswego County, New York. Interior Contrivances--This poultry house is a balloon frame of two by four joist. It is eighteen feet wide and sheathed with inch boards tightly fitted to gather, then papered and sided tightly. The inside is tilled to lop of sills with fine stone, covered with dirt. The house is divided into twelve-foot pens the length of the building, with wire partitions between. There is one large window, a (Figure 34), each side of every twelve-foot pen, two feet from the sills. The pens are ten feet high. There is a tight floor overhead, thickly covered with r.awdust. Through the floor is a ventilating trap door, b, one by twelve feet, in each pen, with a rope and pulley attachment permitting the ventilating trap door to be operated from the hallway on one side of the building. The inside building is of sheathing, stuffed solid with sawdust and chaff. There is a self shutting screen door, c, in each pen. The roosts, d, are two by four, set in notches and hung by four halfinch round irons. The roosts are all painted with coal tar and are removable. Under the roosts is a large shelf, c, hinged so as to let down to a long, narrow box, /, for holding the droppings. Another well-arranged interior is shown at the right of Figure 34. The owner, I. R. Koons, Pennsylvania, writes: "The upper part, in which the fowls roost, is made as air-tight as possible, the walls being covered with tarred paper, so that no air can come in from below or at the sides. "The ventilator draws out air from below the hens, while at the top or peak of the room I have made an opening to draw out al...