. Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. .. . e-sized. To describe the domestic turkey is superfluous; the voiceof the male, the changing colors of the skin of the headand neck; his proud strut, with expanded tail and loweredwings jarring on the ground; his irrascibility, readily ex-cited by red or scarlet colors, are characteristics with whiciiall are conversant. Turkey-cocks are jDugnaci
. Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. .. . e-sized. To describe the domestic turkey is superfluous; the voiceof the male, the changing colors of the skin of the headand neck; his proud strut, with expanded tail and loweredwings jarring on the ground; his irrascibility, readily ex-cited by red or scarlet colors, are characteristics with whiciiall are conversant. Turkey-cocks are jDugnacious and vin-dictive, and often ill-treat the hens ; they have been knovvnto attack children; and combats between them and thegame-cock have taken place, in which the latter was moreoppressed by the weight of his antagonist than by gladia-torial skill; in fact, the bulky hero has usually been worsted,as he cannot use his spurs with the address exhibited bythe game-cock, which, moreover, fights with method. The adult turkey is extremely hardy, and bears the coldof our winter with impunity; during the severest weather,flocks will roost at night upon the branches of tall trees,preferring such accomodation to an indoor dormitory. 76 DOMESTIC EROITZE TUBKRY GOBBLEK. The impatierice of restraiiit and restlessness of the turkeyrender it unfit company for fowls in their roosting-places;in fact, the fowl-house is altogether an improper place forthese large birds, which require open sheds and high per-ches, and, altogether, as much freedom as is consistentwith their safety. Although turkeys will roost, even during DOMESTIC TUEKEY. 77 the winter months, on trees, this should by no means beallowed; the feet of the birds are apt to become frozenfrom such exposure to the air. It must be rememberedthat the domestic turkey, hardy as it is when adult, is notequal in point of endurance to its wild relative, bred in thewoods and inured to the elements. Turkeys are fond ofwandering about
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