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Title: 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. ..
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Saunders, Simon M
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: New York, O. Judd
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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he action of the bird. From this and othercauses the Rouen is a less active variety than the Ayles-bury, and for the same cause does not make a good sitter,being too heavy for the young birds when hatching, andfor this cause her eggs should be placed under a hen.This is the more necessary, as the duck lays so long, thatit often makes the brood a very late one, if the eggs arenot set till she is broody. Cases are reported of ducks ofthis breed, which laid an egg a day for 85 and 92 succes-sive days, and though this is unusual, yet they often lay asimilar length of time before they become ready to sit. The Rouen is the most lethargic, and, consequently, themost speedily fed of any. Their whole appearance israther ungainly; but the most inconsiderate observer canhardly fail of being struck with the size of good specimensof this breed. They are as hardy as any other kind, andrarely evince any disposition to wander from their home,and an especial recommendation is, that they are not noisy.
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96 DOMESTIC POULTRY. POULTRY FOR EXHIBITION. There is neither so mucli profit, nor so mnch honor, ingaining prizes with bought birds as with those that havebeen bred at home. As a rule, those who are in a positionto give the largest sums are not those who pay the mostattention to their birds; and it is almost impossible oneperson should possess all the advantages requisite to suc-cess. The produce of the best birds in the world, if onlymoderately attended to, will not be better than those ofmerely good ones favored by every advantage. If it iswished to exhibit at early shows or fairs, say in June, July,and August, the chickens should be hatched early in Feb-ruary, one thing alone operates disadvantageously, namely,that the nights are longer. About the middle of Januaiy two or three hens shouldbe set in a warm, sheltered spot, and each should haveseven eggs from selected birds, above all such as have nocapital defects or lack of any virtue. Grant that five chick-ens are hatched under e

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