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XG PHEASANT FARMING RKO 
Young Chinese or Ring-Neck Pheasants at State Game Farm 
CHAPTER VI 
Food for Young Pheasants 
HEN forty-eight hours old, the young 
pheasant may be fed sparingly on hard- 
boiled eggs, chopped fine with a little 
onion tops, fresh-ground, lean meat, 
crumbled with shorts or corn meal, and 
later dry chick food, boiled rice and eurd. 
A custard, made of eggs and milk, and 
cooked in the usual manner, is also an 
excellent food for young pheasants. 
Another successful method of feeding young pheasants is with 
the larvae of the common blue fly (maggots). When this food is 
used, nothing else need be fed, except greens occasionally, until the 
birds are a month old. However, the chick food or cracked wheat 
should be kept before them that they may learn to eat it and be 
prepared to adapt themselves to the whole wheat diet when the larvae 
food has been discontinued, which should be done gradually. 
The objection to the larvae food is the offensive odor ordinarily 
associated with it. This may be overcome by raising the larvae 
scientifically. Contrary to the commonly accepted idea, the larvae 
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