. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 105. Colony houses at Hampton Institute io6 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS. Fig. i06. Coop for hen and chicks, usedon Rhode Island farm that the small chickens may have fresh land not too far fromthe farmhouse; land seeded to grass the year before is best. The chickens are fed the same dough as is given to thehens, but are fed oftener. They have a second meal of dough about noon, and their grainsupply, which is given in smalltroughs, is replenished fre-quently. While the hens arewith the chickens the foodis placed where the hen con-fined to the
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 105. Colony houses at Hampton Institute io6 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS. Fig. i06. Coop for hen and chicks, usedon Rhode Island farm that the small chickens may have fresh land not too far fromthe farmhouse; land seeded to grass the year before is best. The chickens are fed the same dough as is given to thehens, but are fed oftener. They have a second meal of dough about noon, and their grainsupply, which is given in smalltroughs, is replenished fre-quently. While the hens arewith the chickens the foodis placed where the hen con-fined to the coop can get hershare. After the hens aretaken away, the dough isthrown on the grass as thecart passes up and down therows of coops. When the hay has been harvested and the corn has growntall, a part of the young chickens may be removed from the landwhere they were started, and the coops placed where they canforage on mowing lands, in cornfields, and wherever they cango without damage to a grow-ing crop. As they become toocrowded in the small coops,the cockerels are sold and, ifthere are still too many birdsin a coop,
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