. The Eastern poultryman . Silver and Golden Pheasants boiled eggs, dry bread crumbs and a lit- tle canary seed, about one egg to eight young, and give them free range. An excellent pasture is a clover patch or let- tuce close by. Grass and clover are as much the staff of pheasants as bread is to man. Pheasants will thrive on grass and greens exclusively. I make it my busi- ness never to touch their feed with my hands. I use a large airy dry goods box for a coop, take one side entirely off and put poultry wire instead, and station it in a shady spot, or else have bushes over the top. I place a
. The Eastern poultryman . Silver and Golden Pheasants boiled eggs, dry bread crumbs and a lit- tle canary seed, about one egg to eight young, and give them free range. An excellent pasture is a clover patch or let- tuce close by. Grass and clover are as much the staff of pheasants as bread is to man. Pheasants will thrive on grass and greens exclusively. I make it my busi- ness never to touch their feed with my hands. I use a large airy dry goods box for a coop, take one side entirely off and put poultry wire instead, and station it in a shady spot, or else have bushes over the top. I place a yard of 12-inch wide boards about three feet square around the coop the first three days, in order for them to get used to the mother's call and not wander oft. Pheasants, when hatched, are very strong and lively and ready to eat at once, therefore I do not wait twenty-four hours, but feed at once, principally dry bread crumbs for the first day. I claim nothing but lice to worry kills the young. They are as easy to raise as chickens and can be reared 111 any kind of climate. I raised 75 per cent, last year and most of my birds were raised in August. When four weeks old I feed with grain. When eight weeks old I cage them in with two-inch poultry wire and give them lots of brush to roost on, which is an important point to ob- serve, also shelter from the north. Young pheasants cannot stand roosting on bare ground. They grow fast and have their full plumage and tail when five months old. Pheasants are very small feeders. Feed for ten head of fowls is enough for thirty pheasants. I anticipate lots of eggs this coining year. If you are a lover of birds, try to raise pheasants. It will give you a great deal of pleasure, besides being a very profitable industry. Pheas- ants and pigeons go fine together. Pheasant roast is the finest delicacy on earth. Pheasant flesh is produced at same cost as chicken flesh, chicken meat sells at ten cents per pound, where pheasant meat sells at from
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