. Duck dollars; . Figure 1. Figure 2. How to Handle Live Birds This is the way to pick up and carry the Uve ducks and drakes which are four weeks old or more. (Do not handle the little ducklings just out of the incubator in this manner.) Catch the birds by the neck in a firm grasp, as shown m Figure i. Never pick up a bird by the body. If you do you will make trouble both for yourself and the duck. Carry them from pen to pen, or from pen to killing-house, as shown in Figure 2. Do not fear that you will strangle the ducks or break their necks. You can carry three or four birds, or more, as many
. Duck dollars; . Figure 1. Figure 2. How to Handle Live Birds This is the way to pick up and carry the Uve ducks and drakes which are four weeks old or more. (Do not handle the little ducklings just out of the incubator in this manner.) Catch the birds by the neck in a firm grasp, as shown m Figure i. Never pick up a bird by the body. If you do you will make trouble both for yourself and the duck. Carry them from pen to pen, or from pen to killing-house, as shown in Figure 2. Do not fear that you will strangle the ducks or break their necks. You can carry three or four birds, or more, as many as you can lift, between two hands, in front of your body.
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