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full-winged birds for stocking the fields. The pinioning is done 
when the pheasant chick is about three days old by clipping the 
last joint of one wing with sharp scissors. At this age there is 
practically no blood in the tip of the wing and it heals over imme- 
diately. ‘This prevents the pheasant from ever flying and it can 
always be kept in an open pen where a fence is six or seven feet high. 
Partitions in Breeding Pens Set Aside so as to Plow and Cultivate the Yards 
The breeding yards with removable partitions, for pinioned 
birds, are a great improvement over the old-style stationary pens. 
These yards are twenty-four feet square, have no 
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covering and accommodate six hens and one cock 
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during the laying season, immediately after which 
the birds are turned out into a large open field adjoin- 
ing. At this season the cocks will not fight, and but little 
time is consumed each day in caring for several hundred birds. 
The partitions are then set aside and the entire strip cultivated and 
sown with grass seed, and the work may be done with a plow, 
whereas, if the partitions were stationary, it would take considerable 
time to spade and rake each individual yard. About the first of 
March these partitions should be put back into place and the birds 
mated up for the laying season. 
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