laying house

laying house

      in animal husbandry, a building or enclosure for maintaining laying flocks of domestic fowl, usually chickens, containing nests, lighting, roosting space, waterers, and feed troughs. Feeders and waterers may be automatic. In the largest houses, feed storage, egg room, and utility space may be in a centre section, with laying-house wings in both directions. Construction ranges from relatively open shelters to fully enclosed and insulated buildings, depending on the climate.

      In the cage system, birds are confined in individual wire mesh cages arranged in rows in a stairstep alignment with service aisles between rows. Feed and water troughs are attached to the front of the cages; eggs roll down the sloping cage floors into a collection area.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • House Sparrow — Male in Australia Female in England …   Wikipedia

  • House dust mite — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …   Wikipedia

  • House Martin — Taxobox name = House Martin image caption = At an official bird ringing station status = LC status system = iucn3.1 status ref = cite web | title =Northern House martin BirdLife Species Factsheet | publisher =BirdLife International | url =… …   Wikipedia

  • House Finch — Taxobox name = House Finch status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 status ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=53468|title=Carpodacus mexicanus|downloaded=12 May 2006] image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata …   Wikipedia

  • House of Commons Commission — The House of Commons Commission is the overall supervisory body of the House of Commons Administration in the United Kingdom.[1] The Commission is a corporate body established by the House of Commons (Administration) Act 1978 (c.36). The… …   Wikipedia

  • House of Rochechouart — {| align=right border=1 align=center Limoges The House of Limoges Rochechouart is the most ancient noble family in France after the royal family. [fr icon Encyclopédie Universalis] This powerful dynasty of the Carolingian era dates back to… …   Wikipedia

  • House of Saddam — Infobox Television show name = House of Saddam caption = Title screen of House of Saddam aka = genre = Drama creator = writer = Alex Holmes Stephen Butchard director = creat director = developer = presenter = starring = Yigal Naor Shohreh… …   Wikipedia

  • Laying Down The Law — Artwork title=Trial By Jury artist=Sir Edwin Landseer year=1840 type=Oil on canvas height=72 width=95 Trial By Jury , or Laying Down The Law as it is commonly known, is an oil on canvas painting from 1840 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer …   Wikipedia

  • House Bunting — Taxobox name = House Bunting status = image width = 240px image caption = Adult, Morocco regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Passeriformes familia = Emberizidae genus = Emberiza species = E. sahari binomial = Emberiza sahari …   Wikipedia

  • House of correction — Correction Cor*rec tion (k?r r?k sh?n), n. [L. correctio: cf. F. correction.] 1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. [1913 Webster] The due… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”