. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 354 APPENDIX G. ALL RAISED FROM ONE PAIR. It is just a year ago since I purchased six pairs of the Plymouth Ro(Je Extra Homers and I had very successful results. I have at present (December 7) fifty mated pairs and have sold just 387 squabs, which brought me $ I find that my expenses were $, which leaves a profit of $144. I find that the birds like the wood-fibre nappies better than any other sort of a nest. I also find that squabs are reared fifty per cent easier than chickens. Enclosed you will 6Dd picture of birds, seventeen of them,
. The national standard squab book. Pigeons. 354 APPENDIX G. ALL RAISED FROM ONE PAIR. It is just a year ago since I purchased six pairs of the Plymouth Ro(Je Extra Homers and I had very successful results. I have at present (December 7) fifty mated pairs and have sold just 387 squabs, which brought me $ I find that my expenses were $, which leaves a profit of $144. I find that the birds like the wood-fibre nappies better than any other sort of a nest. I also find that squabs are reared fifty per cent easier than chickens. Enclosed you will 6Dd picture of birds, seventeen of them, all reared from one pair of blue checkers.—George Briggs, Jr„ Connecticut, HOMERS ARE MOST RE. LIABLE FOR SQUABS, by Fred Fisher. I have close onto two hundred mated pairs of Homers; I am selling between $35 and $40 worth of squabs to San Francisco markets per month. Some people here are in favor of the Maltese and Runt pigeons crossed. To be sure they raise a large, fine squab, but in the moulting sea- son they act like a poor chicken, taking from two to three months to moult, and at the same time they eat their heads off. This year in moulting season I did not notice it at all with my Homers, and shipped just as many squabs then each week as I am shipping now. The Ho- mer is the squab breeder. I feed in open troughs twice daily, about 9 and 2 , living each pen enough so they will have feed before them all the time, I feed my birds dry blood once a week with good results. I give each pen the top of a fruit jar filled with the dried blood, and the birds are very fond of it. It keeps them in good health and sharpens their appetites. I feed red wheat, kaffir com, red oats, cracked corn, whole barley and cracked horse beans. Last May I bought one hundred pairs of pigeons crossed between a Maltese and Runt, bought them at first sight on account of their size, but have foimd out since that they can- not deliver the goods like a Homer, ^id am very much dissatisfied v/ith
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