ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2949, 21 September 1910, Page 35

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.

Farmer. —The most approved method of building a fowl house is to arrange for a roosting house and scratching shed combined. I would not advise trying to accommodate 50 fowls in one house, but to divide that numjber into two lots. If you construct a house seven feet from back to iront and 20 feel long you could divide that with wire netting into' two 7 by 10 houses, each large enough to perch 25 birds. In each house you could place two 10 feet long perches. The perches should rest in slots so that they could be easily removed for cleaning, kerosening, etc. Extending from each roosting house there should be a 20 feet long and seven feet deep scratching shed, wire netted in front, so that the birds can be confined therein in bad weather or at any time required. These two roosts and two scratching sheds would make one continuous building 60 feet long and seven feet back to front, and should be six and a-half or seven feet high in front and four feet six inches at back. If the perches are placed six inches above a three feet wide dropping board, the nests could bo placed underneath same against the back wall, and the eggs removed by lifting doors «l the outside of the building. A dust bath should be built into the corner of each scratching shed, and the whole building made to face the sun. The roof, if of corrugated iron, should be lined above the perches.