Biggle poultry book : a concise and practical treatise on the management of farm poultry by Biggle Jacob

Author:Biggle, Jacob
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poultry
Publisher: Philadelphia : Atkinson

<\ 'If l{)qdtfed°near neigkbbrSvwho also have flocks, the-young poults should * be T marked with marking punches in the web of the foot. If the neighbors will agree to have different marks it will be an easy matter, if the birds get together, for each one to pick out his own.

In the fall when the harvest fields are gleaned, the grasshopper crop gathered in and insects become scarce, the birds are well-grown and lusty. The corn fields are now their favorite haunts and they are inclined to linger longer around the farm yard, and are eager for anything in the way of eatables their owner has to offer.

Thanksgiving comes along about this time and the first installment of the flock should be prepared for market and one of the best of the lot reserved for the farmer's own table. The illustration represents one of the flock the day after Thanksgiving. He is laughing all over his face now; perhaps Christmas day he will wear a different expression.

GUINEA-FOWLS.

The Guinea is closely related to the turkey and was originally brought from Guinea, on the West African coast, where it is still found in a wild state.

Their peculiar cry when alarmed will scare hawks and crows in the day-time. At night they are light sleepers and when aroused by thieves or other maraii-

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