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Identifier: turkeysducksgees00nour (find matches)
Title: Turkeys, ducks, and geese
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Nourse, H. A. (Harold Alvah), 1875-
Subjects: Turkeys Ducks Geese
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Webb Pub. Co.
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eks before the ducklings willappear instead of three, the time required to hatch hensleggs. When the ducklings come out the hen and brood maybe placed in a coop and occasionally the hen may be let outfor an hour after the ducklings are a week old. The little ducks do not need water to swim in any morethan do little chicks, but they must have plenty to drink andalways have it when they are eating. It is necessary forthem to take first a mouthful of food and then a drink ofwater in order to be able to swallow the mash. As theygrow older, say after ten days old, they should always havetheir water in a dish deep enough so they can plunge theirheads into it up to or over their eyes. This is to keep theirnostrils and eyes clean and is very necessary. If a very deepvessel is used, however, the top should be covered wTith slatsthrough which the ducklings can reach the water but nearenough together so that the youngsters can not fall throughand be held head down in the vessel until thev drown.
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BREEDS OF GEESE. The Principal Characteristics Which Indicate Their Usefulness for Practical and Ornamental Purposes— A Comparison of Size. By H. A. Nourse. The American Standard of Perfection recognizes sixdistinct breeds of geese, namely: Toulouse, Embden, Afri-can, Chinese, Canadian or Wild, and Egyptian. Only oneof these breeds, the Chinese, has more than one variety andit has two, the Brown and White. The largest of these breeds are the Toulouse, Africanand Embden, all having the same weight requirements inthe Standard, though the first two are larger as a generalrule than the Embdens. Specimens of Toulouse and Afri-can varieties, which weigh a good many pounds over Stand-ard weight, are very common and now and then an Emb-den exceeds the weight required by the Standard, but asa rule that breed does not attain the size of the other two. The general color of the Toulouse and African breedsis gray, but that of the Embden is pure white. In prac-tical qualities there is probably ve

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