Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1919 — YOUNG CHICKS MUST HAVE GOOD SHELTER [ARTICLE]

YOUNG CHICKS MUST HAVE GOOD SHELTER

No Particular Style of House Is to Be Recommended. It Should Provide Ample Ventilation, Dryness, Sunlight, Freedom From - Drafts and Can Easily Be = Cleaned —Avoid Crowding. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Growing chicks should be provided with a house that will give them a place to stay in bad weather and at night. No particular style of house is recommended, but it should be so built that it will provide ample ventilation, dryness, sunlight, freedom from drafts, and be so arranged that it can be cleaned'easily and frequently. The lumber from piano and drygoods boxes can be used in building such a house, and when covered with ordinary roofing paper so as to keep out the rain, will make desirable quarters. It is suggested that such houses be built.on the colony plan, so that they can be moved from place to place, thus providing the chicks with fresh ground to range over. Elevating such a house six Inches above the ground will help to keep the floor dry, by means of the circulation of air, and such space will also provide shade for | the chicks. In placing the chicks in their growing house for the first time, It Is best to confine them for several days by erecting a temporary yard wherein they can run for five or six days until they learn where to return when, the fence is removed and they are allowed their liberty. Care should be taken not to crowd the chicks by placr Ing too many in any one house. When the chickens cover the greater part of the floor at night, it is an Indication that they are too crowded. At such a time they should be thinned out and placed in another bouse.