. Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. ... Poultry. 22 DOMESTIC POULTRY. cause the poultry to forsake it by placing water nearer to their haunts ; it will always be found they prefer going to the stream, to drinking out of the pan or tub. There is little doubt many of the diseases of poultry arise from the filthy water they are often obliged to drink from ponds full of decayed vegetable
. Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. ... Poultry. 22 DOMESTIC POULTRY. cause the poultry to forsake it by placing water nearer to their haunts ; it will always be found they prefer going to the stream, to drinking out of the pan or tub. There is little doubt many of the diseases of poultry arise from the filthy water they are often obliged to drink from ponds full of decayed vegetable matter, and tainted by the fall of leaves in autumn from overhanging trees. FATTENING OF POULTRY. There are two methods of fattening ; one is by feeding in troughs, another by cramming. Where merely a good useful fowl is required, the first process will suffice; but,. Fig. 5.—COOP FOR FATTENING FOWLS. when it is wished to make a fowl of extraordinary fatness, such a coop or pen as I shall endeavor to describe will be required. It is represented in the accompanying sketch. A coop for twelve fowl should be twenty-four inches high, three feet long, and twenty-two inches deep; it should stand about two feet from the ground, the front. 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 Saunders, Simon M. New York, O. Judd
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