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Dovecote of XVIème century

The function and the construction of the dovecote :
It is not a chance if, a long time, it were the neatest building of the exploitation. Indeed, it sheltered a richness "the colombine": droppings of pigeons, manure of most invaluable. It replaced or supplemented the manures of the cattle; certain rich cultures were not possible that thanks to this colombine: hemp, tobacco. The pigeons in themselves did not interest; even for local consumption, one made use little of it.
A work of the XVIIe century teaches us, concerning the dovecote, that "to build it one seeks a place which is appropriate to him best... one moves away it as much as possible from the house, because of the noise and the bad smell of the pigeons which besides do not like to be disturbed by energies and coming. As they are extremely timid, they should also be moved away from the trees and the water falls. It is necessary to still observe to place the dovecote a little far from all water parts, so that that which the pigeons will seek for them and their small, have time to warm up in way in their nozzle ".....
"One builds the birdcage in a place where the heat and the cold are not felt: it must be clear and to have its openings towards raising or midday.... It is built always square is hardcores or of frame. The inside must have its nests or its putlog-holes of square figure; they must be engaged in the high and broad wall of a foot, and to go deep to be able to sit a pigeon at ease when it broods. Some are useful of pots or plaster; others have only wicker baskets which they attach against the wall...
One puts nothing in the content nests, because these birds take care themselves to furnish them when they want to lay "....

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