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... extremely hardy , and endures all changes of temper- ature and climate with impunity , as is proved by these birds being found to exist in nearly every country of the world , from the warmest to the coldest . The domestic cock appears ...
... extremely hardy , and endures all changes of temper- ature and climate with impunity , as is proved by these birds being found to exist in nearly every country of the world , from the warmest to the coldest . The domestic cock appears ...
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... extremely easily fed , and , in short , I know of no fowl I would rather recommend to the notice of the breeder ; but let me here observe , that spurious specimens of this fowl are often in the market , which will occasion , perhaps ...
... extremely easily fed , and , in short , I know of no fowl I would rather recommend to the notice of the breeder ; but let me here observe , that spurious specimens of this fowl are often in the market , which will occasion , perhaps ...
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... extremely large and heavy , and are partly double , or furnished with a second lobe or fold . The colour of the cock is , as usually occurs , more brilliant than that of the hen . His body is of a fine reddish brown hue , with neck ...
... extremely large and heavy , and are partly double , or furnished with a second lobe or fold . The colour of the cock is , as usually occurs , more brilliant than that of the hen . His body is of a fine reddish brown hue , with neck ...
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... extremely tender with your fingers . You may otherwise often kill , when your intention is only to cure . For my own part , my confidence in the unas- sisted powers of nature is such , that I would be disposed to per- mit even twelve ...
... extremely tender with your fingers . You may otherwise often kill , when your intention is only to cure . For my own part , my confidence in the unas- sisted powers of nature is such , that I would be disposed to per- mit even twelve ...
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... extremely likely to break the tender beak of the little chick - chop up a few hard eggs with boiled nettles , parsley , and a little bread or curd ; make this into a paste , and present it to the birds in the palm of your hand , or ...
... extremely likely to break the tender beak of the little chick - chop up a few hard eggs with boiled nettles , parsley , and a little bread or curd ; make this into a paste , and present it to the birds in the palm of your hand , or ...
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Domestic Fowl: Their Natural History, Breeding, Rearing and General Management H D Richardson No preview available - 2023 |
Domestic Fowl - Their Natural History, Breeding, Rearing and General Management H. d. Richardson No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 20 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 38 - I may mention, as the most striking, that the wing is jointed, so that the posterior half, can, at pleasure, be doubled up, and brought forward between the anterior half and the body. The birds can do this at pleasure, and the appearance the manoeuvre imparts to their form, has procured for them the title of Ostrich Fowl.
Page 65 - About the fifteenth of Henry VIII. (1524) : there is no reliance to be placed upon it, as far at least as the fish is concerned ; for Dame Juliana Barnes, or Berners, Prioress of Sopewell Nunnery, mentions, in the Boke of St.
Page 14 - The total amount of the exportations for that year was 3,829,284 francs. The consumption in Paris is calculated at 11,5,-; eggs per head, or 101,012,400. The consumption in other parts of France may be reckoned at double this rate, as, in many parts of the country, dishes composed of eggs and milk are the principal items in all the meals.
Page 23 - Gallus giganteus,' and called by Marsden the ' St. Jago Fowl,' is frequently so tall as to be able to peck crumbs without difficulty from an ordinary dinner-table. The weight is usually from ten to thirteen or fourteen pounds. The comb of both cock and hen is large, crown shaped, often double, and sometimes, but not invariably, with a tufted crest of feathers, which occurs with the greatest frequency...
Page 74 - ... time, the better chance there is of rearing it ; as the hen which is so turned away, will lay again in a fortnight or three weeks, and thus hatch a second time before the month of July is out. Even under these circumstances, the chance of rearing the young ones is very uncertain, as they are hardly strong enough to meet the cold nights in the autumn, when they often become what is called club-footed, and die. I rather recommend letting the hen lay as many eggs as she will, and turning her off...
Page 74 - ... hatched about the same time, the better chance there is of rearing it ; as the hen which is so turned away, will lay again in a fortnight or three weeks, and thus hatch a second time before the month of July is out. Even under these circumstances, the chance of rearing the young ones is very uncertain, as they are hardly strong enough to meet the cold nights in the Autumn, when they often become what is called club-footed, and die.
Page 92 - I have here given it. This bird is chiefly remarkable for its vast size — a property in which it casts every other known breed far into the shade ; it is, indeed, the Mammoth of geese, and is to be regarded as a most valuable addition to our stock. The prevailing...
Page 13 - His allowance, or rather his gain, was one shilling upon every six score of eggs brought in — the risk, purchase, and carriage resting entirely on himself. The prices vary from time to time, at different periods of the year ; but they are never changed, without previous notice to the runners. In the height of the season, the prices, at Lanesborough, were from 2s. 6d. to 4s. per 120 ; but towards the winter they rise to 5s. The eggs are packed in layers with straw, in such crates as are commonly...
Page 77 - When they get their head feathers, they are hardy enough ; and what they then want is room to prowl about. It is best to breed them under a common hen, because she does not ramble like a hen turkey ; and, it is a very curious thing, that the turkeys bred up by a hen of the common fowl, do not themselves ramble much when they get old...