Identifier: poultrymanualgui00sewe (find matches)
Title: The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sewell, Franklane L Tilson, Ida E
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn., Webb
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ing for a bite, but dig till their regularmeal-time, and come in a body, each getting its proper share.It is amusing to see our chickens gather and sing around thehammock, at four oclock summer afternoons. They are notfed there, but know where my father starts from. The old-fashioned rule of withholding water ten days, I suc-cessfully followed, but chicks long for drink very early, andI learned it was mainly the coldness of water or milk that didthe damage to bowels. Boiled milk, often recommended, is constipating. Clear, rawmilk is the opposite, unless diluted with one-half or one-thirdwarm water, when we secure a model drink. A pancake baker, with its shallowness, its rim on which toperch, and its iron flavor, makes a good drinking dish. So does a flower pot inverted in its saucer, leaving just aring of water. If a fountain is desired, cork the hole in bottomof pot, notch its rim i/^ an inch in one or two places, fill withwater, turn saucer over lop, and quickly invert the whole. If
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A Large Brooding House and Growing Ducks on a Success-ful Duck Farm. TURKEYS. 139 you have pans or troughs of water standing around, put in stonesor bricks, that chicks which fall in may get a foothold and notdrown. Early separate the sexes of precocious breeds, for bestgrowth. Larger kinds mature slower, hence this is not neces-sary if cockerels are promptly sold when two or three monthsold. Chickens allowed to roost in trees in pleasant weather,stay there through fall rains and even till they freeze to theboughs. A bamboo fishpole as a weapon of dislodgment, fillsa long felt want. TURKEYS, DUCKS AND GEESE The Principal Breeds and Their Proper Care and Manage-ment. One gobbler to 12 hens is sufficient. Those who changemale birds every year, to avoid the evils of inbreeding, make amistake. Secure the best possible gobbler and hens, then keepthem as long as they live and do not fail, selling their progenyinstead. There is such a differnce in turkeys that this is theonly plan which lets

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