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October 10, 1912
The Citizen
Berea, Madison County, Kentucky
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A correspondent from Farm and Fireside describes an innovative combined roosting and nesting box for hens, designed for easy access, security against egg-eating, fresh air circulation, and easy maintenance.
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MAKING BIDDY HAPPY.
Try to Please Your Hens With Combined Roosts and Nests.
I think I have studied out and made perfect combined nesting and roosting box, says a correspondent of Farm and Fireside. The nesting boxes are of easy access and at the same time so secret as to please the hens and make them very secure from the hens learning that pernicious habit, so often learned in the winter, of eating their eggs. The roosts are in a position to allow all possible access of fresh air without draft and at the same time allow protection from a severely cold night. The third important advantage lies in the fact that it is made so much in sections as to be moved with ease. Every part is perfectly accessible, so as to be easily oiled or whitewashed, to prevent and remove disease or lice. The foundation is a bench, A, fifteen inches high which allows the hens to use the floor space underneath, so that it is not wasted: twenty-five inches wide and as long as desired, conforming to the space available and fowls to use it. Remember the nests E should be fifteen inches square, so the length should be an equal multiple of fifteen. The nest boxes should have a door, B, to turn down in front, with sufficient open space in cracks to allow the hen a little light and yet dark enough to encourage them in hiding their eggs and also to discourage the idle hens from hunting after the newly laid eggs. You will note the hens enter an entrance, C, at back right (or left) hand corner, at the end and into an alley, D, that runs back of the nests E and opens into each. On top of the nest is a cleated cover of matched boards that carries an open faced box without top or bottom, that sets on the cleated cover and in turn supports a cleated cover in this box is placed a roost of two poles nailed to 1 by 3 inch strips, twenty-four inches long, for supports. At the front edge of cover is fastened a piece of burlap or strip of blanket to turn down on very cold nights after the hens are at roost. Large fowls need a cleated board set slanting, in order to walk up to the roost. A small box should be set at the entrance of the nest boxes.-Farm and Fireside.
COMBINED ROOSTS AND NESTS.
[From Farm and Fireside.]
Try to Please Your Hens With Combined Roosts and Nests.
I think I have studied out and made perfect combined nesting and roosting box, says a correspondent of Farm and Fireside. The nesting boxes are of easy access and at the same time so secret as to please the hens and make them very secure from the hens learning that pernicious habit, so often learned in the winter, of eating their eggs. The roosts are in a position to allow all possible access of fresh air without draft and at the same time allow protection from a severely cold night. The third important advantage lies in the fact that it is made so much in sections as to be moved with ease. Every part is perfectly accessible, so as to be easily oiled or whitewashed, to prevent and remove disease or lice. The foundation is a bench, A, fifteen inches high which allows the hens to use the floor space underneath, so that it is not wasted: twenty-five inches wide and as long as desired, conforming to the space available and fowls to use it. Remember the nests E should be fifteen inches square, so the length should be an equal multiple of fifteen. The nest boxes should have a door, B, to turn down in front, with sufficient open space in cracks to allow the hen a little light and yet dark enough to encourage them in hiding their eggs and also to discourage the idle hens from hunting after the newly laid eggs. You will note the hens enter an entrance, C, at back right (or left) hand corner, at the end and into an alley, D, that runs back of the nests E and opens into each. On top of the nest is a cleated cover of matched boards that carries an open faced box without top or bottom, that sets on the cleated cover and in turn supports a cleated cover in this box is placed a roost of two poles nailed to 1 by 3 inch strips, twenty-four inches long, for supports. At the front edge of cover is fastened a piece of burlap or strip of blanket to turn down on very cold nights after the hens are at roost. Large fowls need a cleated board set slanting, in order to walk up to the roost. A small box should be set at the entrance of the nest boxes.-Farm and Fireside.
COMBINED ROOSTS AND NESTS.
[From Farm and Fireside.]
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Nature
What keywords are associated?
Hen Roosts
Nesting Boxes
Poultry Design
Egg Protection
Farm Innovation
Story Details
Story Details
Description of a sectional combined nesting and roosting box for hens, featuring easy access nests to prevent egg-eating, ventilated roosts for fresh air, and movable design for cleaning to avoid disease.