. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Sect. II. Gallinaceous Fowls, their Kinds, Breeding, Rearing, and Manage7nent. 7438. Under the order GaUinecE are include
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Sect. II. Gallinaceous Fowls, their Kinds, Breeding, Rearing, and Manage7nent. 7438. Under the order GaUinecE are included the common lien, turkey, Guinea, and peacock; and we shall here treat of each of these birds in succession. 7439. The diSferent species of fowls, that is, of cocks and hens, inhabit in their native state the continent y2«. and islands of Asiatic India. Naturalists have not agreed whether these numerous varieties of this most useful bird, seen in a domes- ticated state, have originated from one or from two species. M. Tem- minck considers the Bankiva cock (Gallus Banklva) as the origin of our domestic poultry ; while others think they may have .sprang from the Jungle cock {fig. 928. G. Sonnerfit//), still found in the greatest plenty in the forests of India. The term chicken is applied to the female young of gallinaceous animals till they are four months old; afterwards they are called pullets, till they begin to lay, when they oecome 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 becomes a cock; unless, indeed, he has been artificially deprived of the faculty of procreation, when he becomes a capon ; and when the ovarium is taken from a pullet or hen, she is called a hen capon. 7-WO. The varieties of a bird so long under culture may naturally be expected to be numerous; those most esteemed in Britain, at the present time, are the following : — 7441. The common dunghill cock and hen, middle size, of ev
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