Making a Poultry House

A practical handbook offering site selection, construction, and upkeep advice for small to medium poultry flocks. It outlines how to balance warmth, fresh air, and sunlight while preventing dampness, drafts, disease, and vermin, and discusses foundations, floors, roofs, walls, windows, doors, nests, and roosts. The text presents adaptable designs—from small coops and portable colony houses to connected buildings and combined lofts—plus brooding quarters, runs, and simple traps. Illustrated plans and focused recommendations emphasize drainage, ventilation methods, hygienic materials, and flexible layouts to produce healthy, economical shelter for domestic fowl.