. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. White Mechlin Cock with pleasure. They are usually fed two or three tirnes daily; the last meal should be given just before they go to their perch. It is well to give grain at this meal, because thatneeds a certain time to pass into the winter a good meal can be made of hotwater and mashed potatoes, or bran mashserved warm; above all, it is important to seethat no ice-cold drinking water can be must never be forgotten that variety of foodkeeps poultry in good health, and that experi-ence will best teach w
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. White Mechlin Cock with pleasure. They are usually fed two or three tirnes daily; the last meal should be given just before they go to their perch. It is well to give grain at this meal, because thatneeds a certain time to pass into the winter a good meal can be made of hotwater and mashed potatoes, or bran mashserved warm; above all, it is important to seethat no ice-cold drinking water can be must never be forgotten that variety of foodkeeps poultry in good health, and that experi-ence will best teach what will induce hens tolay well under local circumstances. Usually hens lay eggs for several daystogether and then rest for a day. If well fed. A Mechlin Coucou Cock they begin to lay in February and cease inthe autumn, when they begin to molt. Ofcourse this depends somewhat on the hen-house and the condition in which they arekept. Their house should be extremely clean,cleanliness being of great importance to them;so much so that they will not lay their eggsin a dirty henhouse infested with vermin, butwill go elsewhere for a nest. Nearly all henswill make known by a peculiar cry, well under-stood by those who know it, when they havelaid an egg. If they stay on the egg and areunwilling to be driven away from it, it is asign that they want to sit, to the great alarmof some people, who desire eggs to eat, and THE GALLINACEOUS TRIBES 227 not a sitting hen. A basket or a pailturned upside down over the egg will teaclithe hen that she is not to follow her instinctWhen it is desired to raise chickens leavethe mother hen quietly and without fearupon her eggs, especially in the spring ofthe year. She will utter peculiar cries, andthis
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