. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . uring the growing sea-son, from one hundred to two hundred chickens. The oldstock is usually kept in one or more small houses located amongthe other outbuildings, and all run together during the day. Ifthe farmer wants to keep the fowls out of the dooryard and thekitchen garden, he does not make yards for the fowls, but in-closes the dooryard and garden. Outside of these the birdsgo where they please. The coops for the young chickens areoften kept in the dooryard or the garden until the chickens OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS are weaned, but after t
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . uring the growing sea-son, from one hundred to two hundred chickens. The oldstock is usually kept in one or more small houses located amongthe other outbuildings, and all run together during the day. Ifthe farmer wants to keep the fowls out of the dooryard and thekitchen garden, he does not make yards for the fowls, but in-closes the dooryard and garden. Outside of these the birdsgo where they please. The coops for the young chickens areoften kept in the dooryard or the garden until the chickens OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS are weaned, but after that the young birds are nearly alwaysturned out to take their chances with the old ones. Under such conditions a farm flock is not often very pro-ductive, yet, as the birds secure a large part of their food byforaging, the flock may be more profitable than a more produc-tive flock for which all food is bought and upon which a greatdeal of labor is expended. While this way of keeping fowls onfarms is not in itself commendable, it is not to be altogether. Fig. Si. A small farm stock of fowls, ducks, and turkeys condemned, because circumstances often compel the farmer totreat his fowls as a sort of volunteer or self-producing conditions on a farm admit of this, and as a matter of factthe greater part of our enormous total production of eggs andpoultry comes from the half-neglected flocks on the ordinaryfarms. Hence the conditions are tolerable where they are neces-sary, but whenever it is possible to give farm fowls enough at-tention to obviate the faults of common practice, the product andthe profits can be greatlv increased with very little increase in the MANAGEMENT OF FOWLS S5 cost of production. In this section we consider the best methodsof securing this result when all the old stock is to be kept as oneflock. Old stock and young ought always to be separated unlessthe old birds constitute an insignificant portion of the flock. Single houses for farm flocks. It is as
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