. 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. .. . ted by many on account both of their wandering habits,which give trouble, and their disagreeable voice. Themales when pugnaceous, though spurless, are capable of in-flicting considerable injury on other poultry with theirstout, hard beaks. Like their wild progenitors, domestic Guinea fowls pre-fer roosting in the open air to entering a fowl-hou
. 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. .. . ted by many on account both of their wandering habits,which give trouble, and their disagreeable voice. Themales when pugnaceous, though spurless, are capable of in-flicting considerable injury on other poultry with theirstout, hard beaks. Like their wild progenitors, domestic Guinea fowls pre-fer roosting in the open air to entering a fowl-house ; theygenerally choose the lower branches of some tree, or thoseof large thick bushes, and there congregate together inclose array; before going to roost they utter frequent callsto each other, and when one mounts, the others follow inrotation. They retire early, before the common fowl. The Guinea fowl is not so large a bird as it appears, itsloose, full plumage making it seem larger than it is ; itdoes not, when plucked, weigh more than a common male and female very much resemble each other ; themale, however, has the casque higher, and the wattles are ofa blueish red—the wattles in the female are smaller, and red. DOMESTIC TOULOUSE GEESE. THE DOMESTIC GOOSE The domestication of the goose, like that of the domes-tic fowl, is hidden in the remotest ages of the Greeks and Romans, it seems to have been theonly really domesticated water-fowl they possessed, andappears to have held exactly the same place in their esteemthat it still retains with us after the lapse of two or nearlythree thousand years. 84 DOMESTIC POULTRY. Geese require a dormitory apart from other poultry, anda green field, or common, with a convenient pond of wa-ter—often at command in the country. Let not, however,the keeper of geese suppose that their daily grazing is suf-ficient for their maintenance in proper condition, as theyrequire, in addition, a supply of grain, oat
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