A Practical Treatise on Breeding, Rearing, and Fattening, All Kinds of Domestic Poultry, Pheasants, Pigeons, and Rabbits: Also the Management of Swine, Milch Cows, and Bees, and Instructions for the Private Brewery

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Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830 - 368 páginas

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Página 169 - ... taken as a general rule : — Rabbits which have as much corn as they will eat, can never take any harm from being indulged with almost an equal portion of good substantial vegetables. However, the test of health is, that their dung be not too moist. Many, or most, of the town feeders never allow any greens at all ; the reason, 1 suppose, because they feed almost entirely on grains.
Página 148 - To MATCH or PAIR a cock and hen, it is necessary to shut them together, or near and within reach of each other ; and the connexion is generally formed in a day or two. Various rules have been laid down, by which to distinguish the cock from the hen pigeon ; but the masculine forwardness and action of the cock, is for the most part distinguishable.
Página 127 - ... lie out, that is, they are not willing to come to be shut up in the basket : those that are intended to be turned out wild should be taught to perch (a situation they have never been used to) ; this is done by tying a string to the hen's leg, and obliging her to sit in a tree all night: be sure you put her in the tree before sunset; and, if she falls down, you must persevere in putting her up again till she is contented with her situation ; then the young birds will follow the hen and perch with...
Página 367 - Fishing, &c., With Observations on the Breaking and Training of Dogs and Horses ; Also the Management of Fowling Pieces, and all other Sporting Implements.
Página 11 - Their plumage, particularly 8 the red, is most beautiful and rich ; their size somewhat below the common, and their symmetry and delicacy of limbs to be compared with those of the race-horse and the deer, or, in more strict analogy, with the wild species of their own genus. The ancients kept game cocks for the same purpose as the moderns, and there is a game breed at present existing in India ; but I have not hitherto obtained any information as to the origin of our game breed, which has been established...
Página 160 - ... of room, the hutches may be placed in rows, with a sufficient interval between, for feeding and cleaning, instead of being joined to the wall, in the usual way. It is preferable to rest the hutches upon stands, about a foot above the -ground, for the convenience of cleaning under them. Each of these hutches, intended for breeding, should have two rooms, a feeding and a bed-room.
Página 13 - ... cruelty, and used them with more severity than ever. Soon after they were forced from the Danish yoke ; and, to revenge themselves on the Cocks for the misfortune they involved them in, instituted this custom of knocking them on the head on Shrove Tuesday, the day on which it happened. This sport, though at first only practised in one City, in process of time became a natural divertisement, and has continued ever since the Danes first lost this Island.

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