Making a Poultry House

Conover, Mary Roberts, 1880-Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

2.4

Word count: 43K words
Chapters: 5

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Making a Poultry House by Mary Roberts ConoverAuthor: Conover, Mary Roberts, 1880-,Language: English, Class: SF: Agriculture: Animal culture, Release Date: Dec 20, 2013

Editor's review

This early practical handbook on poultry keeping, Making a Poultry House, has Mary Roberts Conover explain site selection, construction, and daily management of a chicken coop in plain prose. The book is short and focuses on the hands-on side: choosing materials suited to local conditions, building a ventilated, dry poultry house, and the basic arrangements around egg production and feeding. The writing is direct, with little theoretical discussion and step-by-step instructions that suit reading alongside practice. As a Project Gutenberg public-domain e-book, it preserves the language of early twentieth-century agricultural guidance and is also useful for studying the history of early poultry farming or rural life. Readers can treat it as a light operational guide to dip into when planning a small coop or learning about traditional keeping methods, rather than expecting a systematic account of modern livestock science.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Amateur poultry keepers in suburbs or rural areas who want to build a small coop themselves
General readers interested in the history of traditional farming techniques and rural life
English learners who need concise English material on poultry-keeping practice

Not a good fit for

Professionals seeking modern large-scale farming technology and disease-control systems
Agricultural researchers who need extensive data, charts, and scientific experimental evidence
Readers with no involvement in poultry keeping who only want amusing stories

Reading tips

Read the construction chapters first, then draw a simple site sketch for your own plot.
While reading, list the materials and tools and make choices based on your actual budget.
Skip outdated terms at first; grasp the overall process, then return to the details.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

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FAQ

Is this book suitable for complete beginners who have never kept chickens?

Yes, but note that it is aimed at early household-style keeping. Beginners can learn about coop siting, ventilation, and basic construction ideas, but it does not cover modern disease prevention or feed formulation, so it is best used alongside current materials.

Can the construction methods in the book still be copied today?

Some ideas, such as sunlight, damp prevention, and ventilation, remain useful, but the material specifications and specific methods are limited by their era. Treat the book's plans as a design starting point and adjust them to local climate, building materials, and current keeping standards.

How difficult is the English?

It is generally popular technical writing with short sentences, and the specialized terms are concentrated in poultry and carpentry. Readers with basic English can get through it with a dictionary; a few old-fashioned expressions do not affect understanding of the main thread.

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About the author

Conover, Mary Roberts, 1880- Author · 1880

Mary Roberts Conover (Conover, Mary Roberts, 1880-) is an American author whose year of birth appears in the attribution of her name, while further biographical details are limited in publicly available sources. One work by her is held in the collection, Making a Poultry House, a practical guide for household poultry keepers covering the siting, construction, and routine maintenance of a poultry house. It belongs to the early twentieth-century genre of American poultry-keeping manuals, often produced for rural families and small farms, with plain language and concrete steps. On the available evidence, Conover's writing is concise and hands-on rather than theoretical, and her influence lies mainly in spreading practical poultry knowledge of her time.