Identifier: profitsinpoultry00fisk (find matches)
Title: Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Fiske, George B. (George Burnap), 1868-
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York : O. Judd Co.
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such stock than from younger (mes. The ganders,however, rapidly depreciate with age, and also early pairoff with single females. In these cases, a young andvigorous gander is substituted. It is best to make theselection for breeding in autumn, just before culling outfor fattening, or selling stock to others. No amount ofpersuasion, or temi)ting high price, should induce thebreeder to part with his best birds ; for if he desires tosteadily improve his flock, no matter whether it is of so-called common birds or thoroughbreds, he must takehis pick first of the very cream of the flock. If geese can be set early, two broods may be obtainedfrom each female, thus securing large flocks for each sea-sons sales. The later-hatched birds, generally having(210) HAISTMG litESli. 211 favorable weather, will make good weights by lafe fall,especiJilly if given extra care and food, ^hese latel)irdsmake excellent eating about Christmas-time. The gooseusually makes her own nest, though it is well to help
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Fig. 83.—PAIR OP TOULOUSE. her a little. She is a careful and constant mother, buther love for the water must be restrained until the gos-lings are a few weeks old, for many dangers, in the formof musk-rats, snakes, turtles, etc., lurk at the watersedge. 212 PROFITS IN POULTRY. Goslings do not require much extra feed, if they canget all the fresh and tender grass they want, and unlessthis can be supplied, breeding geese is not profitable.For the first few weeks some food must be given ; thisshould neyer be corn-meal, for nine-tenths of the mor-tality among fledgelings, of the various kinds of domesticfowls, can readily be traced to feeding corn-meal. Cot-tage cheese, or dry curds of sour milk in which red pep-per (Cayenne) has been sprinkled, is a very good food,and a quantity of fresh onion-tops, chopped up fine, isrelished by them. Stale bread soaked in fresh milkmakes an excellent food for all young birds, and the waythey develop when fed liberally with it will astonish anyone wh

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