. Propagation of wild birds; a manual of applied ornithology, treating of practical methods of propagation of quails, grouse, wild turkey, pheasants, partridges, pigeons and doves, and waterfowl, in America, and of attracting and increasing wild birds in general, including song-birds . etweather. The hen, too, is less likely to kill ducklings ofother broods that may happen to come to her. Any ordinary hen of medium weight that is docile willanswer the purpose. Wild or very heavy hens are liable tocrush these fragile eggs. Bantams are rather better foreggs of wood duck, mandarin, shoveller, tea
. Propagation of wild birds; a manual of applied ornithology, treating of practical methods of propagation of quails, grouse, wild turkey, pheasants, partridges, pigeons and doves, and waterfowl, in America, and of attracting and increasing wild birds in general, including song-birds . etweather. The hen, too, is less likely to kill ducklings ofother broods that may happen to come to her. Any ordinary hen of medium weight that is docile willanswer the purpose. Wild or very heavy hens are liable tocrush these fragile eggs. Bantams are rather better foreggs of wood duck, mandarin, shoveller, teal, or other smallspecies. For an ordinary hen twelve eggs of the largerspecies makes a good setting, or eight for a bantam, but thenumber used will vary with the size of the eggs and the main thing is never to give a hen more eggs than she caneasily cover. Efforts to cover too many are apt to result inbreakage, as well as failure to hatch. Moisture. The eggs of waterfowl require so much mois-ture that it is best to set them on the ground. Outdoorhatching coops such as have been described may be the wild state the duck moistens her eggs when she re-turns from the water. As the hen does not get wet, it iswell to sprinkle the eggs with warm water toward the end of. Young shovellers or spoonbills, Manitoba expedition
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