. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. iS. Red Pile GameBantam cock. Fig. 19. Red Pile GameBantam hen 38 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS How fowls were kept in old times. Less than a century agoit was quite a common practice among the cottagers of Englandand Scotland to keep their fowls in their cottages at a loft, to which the birds had access by a ladder outside, was fitted upfor them. Sometimesperches for the fowlswere put in the livingroom of the practices seem tous wrong from a sanitarystandpoint, but it is onlywithin very recent timesthat people hav
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. iS. Red Pile GameBantam cock. Fig. 19. Red Pile GameBantam hen 38 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS How fowls were kept in old times. Less than a century agoit was quite a common practice among the cottagers of Englandand Scotland to keep their fowls in their cottages at a loft, to which the birds had access by a ladder outside, was fitted upfor them. Sometimesperches for the fowlswere put in the livingroom of the practices seem tous wrong from a sanitarystandpoint, but it is onlywithin very recent timesthat people have givencareful attention to sani-tation, and in old times,when petty thieving wasmore common than it isnow, there was a de-cided advantage in hav-ing such small domesticanimals as poultry andpigs where they couldnot be disturbed with-out the owners knowingit. The practice of keep-ing fowls in the ownersdwelling seems to havebeen confined to thepoorer people, who had no large domestic animals for whichthey must provide suitable outbuildings. On large farms specialhouses were sometimes pr
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