. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 113. House used for growing roast-ing chickens. Fig. 114. Group of houses like that in Fig. 113 principally Light Brahmas and Plymouth Rocks, although wheneggs of these varieties cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities,Wyandottes are used. The cockerels are caponized when theyare about two months old. A capon does not grow a comb or MANAGEMENT OF FOWLS 117 spurs, nor does it crow. If a perfect capon, it remains alwayssoft-meated and may grow very large, though it does not, as iscommonly supposed, grow larger than a cockerel with
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 113. House used for growing roast-ing chickens. Fig. 114. Group of houses like that in Fig. 113 principally Light Brahmas and Plymouth Rocks, although wheneggs of these varieties cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities,Wyandottes are used. The cockerels are caponized when theyare about two months old. A capon does not grow a comb or MANAGEMENT OF FOWLS 117 spurs, nor does it crow. If a perfect capon, it remains alwayssoft-meated and may grow very large, though it does not, as iscommonly supposed, grow larger than a cockerel within the timeit is usually kept before being killed. An imperfect capon willafter a time grow a comb and short spurs and, though sterile,becomes harder in flesh than a perfect capon. An imperfectcapon is technically called a slip. About the first of March some of the earliest pullets maybegin to lay. From that time all the pullets that begin to lay,and the slips as they appear, are marketed ; all others are kept,because the grower realizes the largest profit on those that can
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