The Poultry Book: A Treatise on Breeding and General Management of Domestic Fowls : with Numerous Original Descriptions, and Portraits from LifePhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 310 Seiten |
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Seite 21 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Seite 119 - When they get to be strong, they may have meal and grain, but still they always love the curds. 173. 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...
Seite 149 - ... requiring its services writes a small billet upon thin paper, which is placed lengthwise under the wing, and fastened by a pin to one of the feathers, with some precautions to prevent the pin from pricking, and the paper from filling with air, so as to retard and weary the bird. On being released, the carrier ascends to a great height, takes one or two turns in the air, and then commences its forward career. According to one account, it can fly...
Seite 220 - This air-bag is of such great importance to the development of the chick, probably by supplying it with a limited atmosphere of oxygen, that, if the blunt end of an egg be pierced with the point of the smallest needle, (a stratagem which malice not unfrequently suggests,) the egg cannot be hatched, but perishes.
Seite 72 - They are large bodied, and of better proportions, according to their size, than any breed I have yet seen ; their bodies being very long, full, and well-fleshed in the breast and other valuable parts. They are short-legged, thickly feathered, with fine delicate heads, both double and single combs, and a shining, beautiful plumage. The color of their legs is white, or fleshcolored, having five, instead of four toes, the fifth being apparently superfluous, and rising like a spur from the same root...
Seite 244 - Highland breed, published in the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland...
Seite 61 - Philanthropists are in the habit of declaiming much against the practice of cock-pit battles, but, on reflection, the cruelty of that sport will be found among the least, wherein the feelings of animals are concerned, since fighting, in the game cock, is...
Seite 149 - ... have been made. It must have been taken from a place to which it is wished that it should return, and it must, at the moment when its services are wanted, be temporarily at the place from which the intelligence is to be conveyed. It is usually taken to that place hoodwinked, or in a covered basket; the instinct by which it finds its way back upon its own wings, must of course be independent of all knowledge of the intermediate localities. When the moment for employing it...
Seite 285 - Until quite recently, the breeding and rearing of poultry, in this section of the country, has been considered too insignificant an article of stock to require any, or very little notice. The rearing of poultry, as will be shown, is certainly not the least important article of stock to the farmer. And the subject is now beginning to assume an importance which the committee hope may produce an honorable competition at...
Seite 113 - ... on locality, and consequent change of habit, combined with difference of climate and other important causes, which we know, in the case of other animals, produce such remarkable effects. As to the relative value of the ordinary varieties, it would be almost difficult to offer an opinion ; but those who suppose the white turkey to be " the most robust and most easily fattened...