. Breeder and sportsman. Certainly incase the fowls showed any symptoms ofbeing cloyed by confinement to a steadydiet. It is hopeless to attempt to fattenchickens while they are at liberty. Theymust be put in a proper coop; and this,like most other poultry appurtenances,need not be expensive. To fatten twelve fowls, a coop may bethree feet long, eighteen inches high,and eighteen inches wide made entirelyof bars. No part solid, neither top, sidesnor bottom. Discretion must be used, according tothe size of chicken put up. They do notwant room; indeed, the closer they arethe better, provided they
. Breeder and sportsman. Certainly incase the fowls showed any symptoms ofbeing cloyed by confinement to a steadydiet. It is hopeless to attempt to fattenchickens while they are at liberty. Theymust be put in a proper coop; and this,like most other poultry appurtenances,need not be expensive. To fatten twelve fowls, a coop may bethree feet long, eighteen inches high,and eighteen inches wide made entirelyof bars. No part solid, neither top, sidesnor bottom. Discretion must be used, according tothe size of chicken put up. They do notwant room; indeed, the closer they arethe better, provided they can all standup at the same time. Care must be taken to put up such ashave been accustomed to be together, orthey will fight. If one is quarrelsomeit is better to remove it at once, or,like other bad examples, it sood findsimitators. A diseased chicken shouldnot be cooped. The food should be ground oats, andmay either be put in a trough or on aflat board running along the front ofthe coop. Never Food should be. Watching a Brash on the Speedway in Golden Gate Park expenses. The eggBhells alone areworth $ a bushel. There are nineestablishments in Petaluma which packeggs and chill dressed poultry so that itmay be shipped a long distance. Thehen in Petaluma is too dignified andvaluable a creature to devote hertime in hatching chicks. All she doesis to keep on laying until the end of thethird year when she is sold for market-able purposes. The duties of maternityare all performed by incubators andbrooders, and on some big poultryranches near Petaluma one will find ahalf dozen incubators and as manybrooders and brooder houses all filledwith chicks. Small balls of down justfrom the incubator or little white, wildchirping creatures that swarm to theother side of the brooder house inaffright the moment a strange voicesounds within. There are always anumber of cats on every chicken ranchto keep the ranch free from rats andother vermin. One sees very few roostersin Petaluma,
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