. Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry;. WEB-FOOTED BIRDS, S3 may readily be fattened, without cramming, to fourteen or fifteen pounds; cramming will bring up their weight to eighteen or twenty; but the excess consists of rank fat, and the flesh is deteriorated in quality, becoming actually unwholesome. The Toulouse geese readily fatten, without any cramming, up to twenty-five or even occasionally thirty pounds weight. In some countries, the barbarous custom of plucking live geese for the sake of their feathers is resorted to. I am sorry to have to say that this cruel practice still obtains ex
. Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry;. WEB-FOOTED BIRDS, S3 may readily be fattened, without cramming, to fourteen or fifteen pounds; cramming will bring up their weight to eighteen or twenty; but the excess consists of rank fat, and the flesh is deteriorated in quality, becoming actually unwholesome. The Toulouse geese readily fatten, without any cramming, up to twenty-five or even occasionally thirty pounds weight. In some countries, the barbarous custom of plucking live geese for the sake of their feathers is resorted to. I am sorry to have to say that this cruel practice still obtains extensively. Of its barbarity, I presume I need say nothing; but I may observe, that geese so treated usually become un- healthy; many of them die; and even of such as survive, the flesh is rendered tough and unwholesome. If it be ever true, as is asserted, that the quills cast in the natural process of moulting are of inferior quality, why not clip them away close to the skin before that operation of nature begins ? Then the geese will only require warmth and housing if the weather be not mild, and you will have the feathers and the geese both unimpaired in qua- lity, and your consciences unburdened by any reminiscence of inhumanity on your part. THE DUCK (anas) .. THE WILD DUCK, Wild Ducks.—Ducks properly so called admit of a natural division into three groups, two of which have distinctive characters, while the third, which is intermediate, partakes somewhat of the character of both. This distinction is at once structural and strongly indicative of the habits of the bird, the one consisting of species which have the toes webbed together,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Richardson, H. D. [from old catalog]; Poultry. [from old catalog]. New York, C. M. Saxton
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