. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ck (fig. 928. G. SonnerattT), still found in the greatestplenty in the forests of India. The term chicken is applied to thefemale young of gallinaceous animals till they are four months old;afterwards they are called pullets, till they begin to lay, when theybecome hens. The male is a chicken till he is three months old,then he is a cock bird till t
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ck (fig. 928. G. SonnerattT), still found in the greatestplenty in the forests of India. The term chicken is applied to thefemale young of gallinaceous animals till they are four months old;afterwards they are called pullets, till they begin to lay, when theybecome hens. The male is a chicken till he is three months old,then he is a cock bird till the age of twelve months, when he becomesacock ; unless, indeed, he has been artificially deprived of the facultyol procreation, when he becomes a capon ; and when the ovarium istaken from a pullet or hen, she is called a hen capon. 7440. The varieties of a bird so long under culture may naturallybe expected to be numerous ; those most esteemed in Britain, at thepresent time, are the following : — 7441. The common dunghill cock and hen, middle size, of everycolour, and hardy. 7442. The game cock and hen [fig. 929), rather small in size, deli-cate in limb, colour generally red or brown; flesh white, and su. Book VII. GALLINACEOUS FOWLS lOSa. perior to that of any other variety for richness and delicacy of flavour; eggs small, fine shaped, and extremely delicate: thechickens are difficult torear from their pugna-city of disposition. Thegame cock has long beena bird both of cruel andcurious sport in this aswell as other coutitti s;but the taste for theseamusements, like thatfor others suited to timesof comparative leisureand ignorance, is nowhappily on the declinein Britain. 7443. The Dorkingcock and hen {Jig. HoO.),so called from the townin Surrey of that name,is the largest variety ;shape handsome; bodyIons and capacious; legs short, five claws on each foot; eggs large, and lays abundantly ; colour of the flesh inclining to yellowish or ivory. Both hens and cocks often madeint
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