The ranch., June 01, 1906, Page 11, Image 11

About The ranch. (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914

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POULTRY
_ H. li. BIANCHARD •
Movable Colony House Plan.
It will be recalled by our readers
that there appeared recently in these
columns an article on the movable
colony house, with an illustration.
The authorship of the inquiry was
not known at the time, but the publi
cation of the article has brought this
out. The following letter was receiv
ed from B. Hooson, of Pender Island,
B. C, and fully explains ,itself. In
this connection we wish to state
The Ranch is always glad to give
space to any article or discussion per
tinent to the interests of farming, and
welcomes Mr. Hooson's reply:
"A plan and description of a chick
en house of my design was published
in a recent issue of your paper, ac
companied by a severely unfavorable
criticism. I was rather surprised to
see it appear, expecting a private re
ply, but the omission to append my
signature, which I assure you was not
intentional, fully explains that.
"The severity of the criticism leads
me to thinks that you expect me to
come forward in defense of my de
sign, and that you will allow me
space in your columns for that pur
pose.
"I don't consider myself competent
to judge between the advantages of
the different systems of housing poul
try. Some eminent poultry experts
speak strongly in favor of large
buildings, housing hundreds and in
some cases thousands of fowls; others
speak as strongly in favor of small
flocks, widely distributed and housed
in small cheap structures. If I had
sufficient capital, I think I would my
self adopt the former plan. It would
be much easier and there would be
others, I can't build a large expensive
building, but I sometimes have eight
or ten dollars which will find the ma
terial to build one small colony house.
By adding house after house in this
way I can look forward to the time
when I shall have as many houses as
I can keep clean and in a sanitary
condition.
"In designing my chicken house I
tried to make the cleaning process as
quick and effective as possible. In
regard to your criticism of the drop
ping board being in the way all the
time and that it interferes with an
easy access to the nests and the
scratching shed, I may say that there
are a great many movable colony
houses with no scratching shed —that
the dropping board is in the way in the
same way that a door is in the way.
If you wish to pass from one room to
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BLACK Mlnorcas, Brown Leghorns,
Light Brahmas. Eggs, $1.50 per 15.
A. Krantz, Green Lake, Wash.
EGGS from White Holland turkeys,
Leghorns, Reds and Rocks. Incubat
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CATALOGUE FREE of the best Brown,
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Hantams. Fred A. Johnson, 618 S. 85th
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BRONZE TURKEY eggs, $3.50 per 10
eggs; Toulouse goose eggs, $1.50 per
4 eggs; Pekin duck eggs, $1.50 per 11
eggs; White Leghorn eggs, $1.60 per 15
eggs; B. P. Rock eggs, $1.75 per 15 eggs.
W. D. Good, Box 116, R. F. D. No. I.
Mt. Vernon, Wash.
THE RANCH, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
another the door is everlastingly in
the way if you don't open it. I some
times draw the board out in the early
morning and leave it out all day; it is
no worse for the exposure and is
clean out of the way.
"As to light in the roosting place
that can be easily provided for by
the size of the window. I should
think that the whole end of the roost
ing place could be stretched with wire
netting, or cotton, or with both, which
would serve the purpose very well.
No door is shown in the plan you pub
lished. I thought it was hardly worth
while mentioning it, as it could be
placed to suit the convenience of the
operator. In my practice a part of the
wire netting is framed and opens on
hinges. I am aware that my design
is not perfect. What design is? I
coiild easily mention some defects my
self, but I won't at least not here."
The criticism of Mr. Hooson's de
sign was intended to be only cindid,
not severe. The criticism was based
upon n'.any years of experience with
poultry houses of different designs,
and we have found that what might
be acceptable with a flock or tvto,
might prove to be the opposite in case
of a large number of houses —one
hardly notices the labor incident to the
opening of one door, while in the case
of twenty doors it would be quite
different. The same we think would
hold true in the case of the dropping
board feature of the design in ques
tion. The poultry house should be
light, perfectly ventilated, and planned
with the view of saving labor, and
holding in obeyance any and all poul
try vermin, for which there should be
few hiding places. We feel sure that
there are well tried plans for poultry
houses that would suit Mr. Hooson oet
ter than his own designs, md that
can be built for less money and labor.
Squab Raising for Profit.
(By E. L. Reber.)
This is the season of the year when
those engaged in the squab business
who plan to increase their flock should
put aside the best youngsters for
breeders. It is a well known fact that
youngsters of the spring and early
summer months are, as a rule, the best
of all the year. First of all, spring
and early summer are the natural
breeding time and old birds go to work
with a will with the approach of the
sunshine. Then, too, parent birds can
supply their young with food from
early morn till late in the evening,
with the result that their little crops
are never empty and one does not
note the squeaking in the loft, char
acteristic of other months of the year.
Breeders that raise young, running
eight pounds to the dozen ordinarily,
often produce youngsters in the spring
and early summer that will tip the
scales at nine and a half pounds. It
is a noteworthy fact that birds born
at this time of the year acquire
strength and .stamina that remain with
them for the rest of their lives, mak
ing them the most satisfactory breed
ers one can obtain.
* * *
Those birds that are saved for
breeders will be stronger and better if
removed at an early age to pens by
themselves. After they leave the
nests and begin to scramble for them
selves they are liable to be worried
more or less by the old birds. Particu
larly is this true at feeding time. The
old birds are wise when it comes to
picking up quickly the choice bits of
grain and the young birds are likely
to lose out in the race for a good meal.
Remove those young birds to pens re
served for them, see that they are
properly banded, so that later on,
when they begin to mate up, a brother
will not become the mate of a sister,
and in four or five months you will
have a pen of choice young breeders.
* • *
People who are making a success of
the squab business are not those who
went into the business on a wholesale
scale a few months ago when the west
was flooded with literature from the
professional squab companies. At the
time there were many who purchased
wholesale lots of birds from these east
ern companies. They were guaran
teed "mated breeders" and great re
sults were promised by the squab com
panies. The purchasers soon found
that first class working Homers do not
come in carload lots and many people
who thought they had a new get-rich
quick scheme were glad to sell their
birds to some other dupe, for half what
they cost. The squab business is now
getting to be on a par with the chicken
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poultry plant. Some pens are netting as high as $3.00 per hen per annum,
at market rates for eggs. Eggs for hatching from the following breeds:
Barred Plymouth Bocks, White Plymouth Bocks, S. C. Brown Leg-horns,
White Wyandottes, S. C. Black Minorcas.
Our breeding pens, 7 to 12 fowls each, are made up from the pick hens
of the different breeds, with the idea of combining the utility and fancy—
all heavy layers. Choice Cocks and Cockerels head these pens. Price of
these eggs, per 13, $1.50. We make a specialty of supplying eggs for in
cubator hatching from the Rocks and Leghorns, in lots of 50 and un, at the
following prices: 50 Egg's, $3.00; 100 Eggs, $5.00.
These eggs are from our best layers, regardless of type of fowl or fancy
color marks. (Prices of eggs for incubator hatching from the breeding pens
furnished on application.)
Bronze Turkey Eggs, 25c Each.
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made out of it, if one buys good birds,
goes at the matter slowly, builds up a
good loft, pays attention to mating,
holds down the grain bills, and does
EGGS HALF PRICE!
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all orders for eggs at half price, of my
Barred and White Plymouth Rocks,
White Wyandottes and my Unparalleled
Strain of Black Minorcas. Part of my
this year's breeders for sale. Eggs now
at $1.00 per setting.
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Barred and White P. Rock eggs, $2
Pure bred Scotch Collie pups at $10 and
up. either sex. . : • '
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SQUAB FARMS COMPLETE
800 old birds—separate pens, first
cross and full blood Homers, pedigreed
stock. Also Roman Runt and Fantalls.
Edmunds Bros.' Department Store and
Poultry Ranch, Hlllman City, Wash.
I EGGS FOR SALE
From Thoroughbred Stock.
White Holland Turkey Eggs, $3.00
setting of 11 eggs.
White Faced Black Spanish, $1.50
setting of 15 eggs.
S. C. Brown Leghorn, $1.50 setting
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Buff Bantam Cochins, $1.50 setting
of 15 eggs.
Incubator Eggs, $6.00 per 100.
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RHODE ISLAND REDS
Ten years of careful breeding has
given us a strain of Rhode Island
Reds to be proud of. We are breed
ing for winter egg production.
The following will tell what they
do in the show room:
Twenty-one prizes on 22 entries
at North Yakima State Fair; Seattle
and Everett exhibits, 1905.
Eggs: $1.50 and $2.50 per setting
Order early.
CRESCENT RANCH
Ware & DeSellem, Props., Kennewick, Wash.
FOR SALE Choice Homers
I will sell 75 pairs of my Homers— >
young, mated and producing young;
from best strains in America. Squabs
average 9 lbs. to doz. Birds guar
anteed.
XS. It. Reber, The Times, Seattle.
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