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REDWOOD NESTS FOR POULTRY SLIDING DRAWER TYPE
REDWOOD NE5T5 SLIDING DRA\^/ER TYPE
ITiMALLATION UNDER DROPPINO! EOARD
HE extremely light nest unit is made strong and serviceable, in lengths convenient for handling, by the use of I inch Redwood in ends and nest divisions. thus .providing sufficient frame or foundation to permit use of thin stock {or the balance of construction.
These nests may be built in units of approximately one foot to conform to available framing space but should not be over five feet long to provide for easy handling.
If subject to rough handling, as where nest trays are to be withdrawn and loaded in quantities on carriers, Redwood slats or pieces of lattice may be used as spreaders or stiffeners on top of nest ends and divisions. Doors may be strengthened, if desired, with short battens on the inside.
If open or ventilated nest bottom is preferred, Redwood lattice may be substituted for solid bottoms as shown, Drarfing on the left, above, illustrates installation of these nests under droppings board in such a way that (this type nest) may easily be removed for cleaning and spraying, thus overcoming the objection to fixed nests in this location, rvhich often harbor mites.
WALL RACK INCTALL,I\TION
Wall rack installation for this sliding drawer type nest is indicated in drawing on right, above, The racks are easily constructed, and rnay be built for nests in tiers, of lengths as desired.
Broody cools directly over nests thus installed tend to save time, patience and energy.
Note that nests may be reversed and placed against back wall with alleys in front if preferred.
ONCE NAILED_NAILED FOREVER
Nailed to its studs, plain bevelled Redwood Siding forms the walls of the McSwain post office and inn, famous in Central California seventy years ago.
Today, racked and twisted by a five-mile haul, unpainted and neglected for forty years, this building still standson the Campidonico ranch near Delhi-mute evidence that Redwood once nailed, is nailed forever !
Even now its unpainted Redwood siding, as true as when carpenters nailed it first in place, is so tenacious that, pried loose with an iron bar, it brings with it from the studding every nail!
