oOK0 PHEASANT FARMING Orolo 
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General View of Pheasant Yards at the State Game Farm. The long line of 
pens running across the field are where the breeding birds are kept 
one cock to six hens in each yard. Partitions are removable. 
CHAPTER IV 
Equipment for a Pheasant Farm 
ONE can raise turkeys, he can raise pheasants. 
Like turkeys, when matured, they are very hardy. 
in fact, the similarity between the young pheasant 
and young turkey is very marked. Some of their 
calls, particularly one given at nightfall, are almost 
identical, and in general, treatment adapted to 
turkeys may safely be appled to pheasants. When 
young, the birds are tame and soon learn to know 
their keeper. They will become sufficiently familiar 
to fly upon the keeper’s shoulder, or eat out of his hand, but the ap- 
pearance of a stranger calls for a note of warning to the whole flock. 
This note is low but quick and its effect is instantaneous. During 
the laying season it is not advisable to allow strangers to visit the 
pens where the pheasants can see them, and better success will be 
obtained if only one or two persons visit the pheasants, and these 
should be the ones to feed them. The birds will be better controlled 
if the same garments are worn each time, as they instantly detect a 
change in dress. They will avoid for a day or more anything new 
placed in their pens. Some breeders place fir boughs or branches 
of other trees in the pens to offer a hiding place for the pheasants, 
but it is not at all necessary. The pens described further on provide 
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