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Title: Open-air poultry houses for all climates; a practical book on modern common sense poultry housing for beginners and veterans in poultry keeping. What to build and how to do it. Houses that will promote health, vigor and vitality in laying and breeding stock
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Woods, Prince Tannat, 1870-
Subjects: Poultry Housing
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., American poultry journal publishing co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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m warm; that isnt the idea at all. You can keep larger flocksin open-front houses than you can in closed houses of the samesize and get better results. There is less danger from crowdingfowls in an open-air house. If, for any reason, you wish to carrya small flock in a good sized open-air house you can do so withperfect safety and with good results. For two winters, both severeones, I carried a little flock of special mating cock and fourfemales in an open-front house 8x14 ft. and apparently they were FOR ALL CLIMATES 19 quite as comfortable as a flock of thirty birds in a house of sametype and size, close by. House sweating and dampness causes no trouble in properlybuilt fresh-air houses. When built of boards covered with shingles,or with some of the graveled felt roofings, I have always found thehouses dry and free from frosting. I have had several complaintsof dampness and house sweating in open-front houses where theboards were covered with heavy, smooth, hard-finish roofing. This
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Experimental Woods Open-air House built in 1908 at Topsfield, Mass.This house has a double hoard floor and is set on posts over which largepans have been inverted to make the house rat proof. View shows southfront and west side. (Photo by Dr. Woods.) was probably the fault of the roofing used. In one other case thehouse was too low studded and roof boards were too close to theheads of the roosting fowls. An open-front house should haveplenty of head room about the roosts. Open-front open-air houses are actually open houses. The openportion of the south front stays open night and day the year 20 OPEN-AIR POULTRY HOUSES round. There are no curtains of any kind. The only protectiongiven to the opening in the south front is the overhang of theeaves and the screen of -)-ineh mesh galvanized wire netting. Thescreen is used over the opening to confine the fowls and to keepthe small birds like sparrows out of the house. Being fine meshscreen it serves as sufficient protection from driving win

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