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he does it will not hurt him. The sides of the shallow pie tin being 
perpendicular, the larvae will be unable to crawl out of the pan 
unless there is too much dirt. 
After the pheasants are a month old, feed the chopped meat 
rolled with shorts, as I have described, and gradually change to a 
wheat diet. Your pheasants, hke chickens, will enjoy a change of 
diet. A stalk of lettuce hung in the pen so that they can reach it 
will be relished. A tuft of grass sod will be a pleasing variety. A 
few fish worms or grasshoppers thrown into the pen will be eagerly 
devoured. Pheasants, like chickens, require grit. It is also a good 
plan to give them a little charcoal occasionally. In short, the grown 
pheasant may be fed the same as a chicken, but, being insectivorous, 
meat, insects and worms given occasionally are desirable additions 
to his menu. 
After the first year’s experience, you will be encouraged to 
branch out and rear pheasants on a larger scale; and if you have 
any love for birds, and particularly if there is any blood of the 
sportsman in your veins, you will surely enjoy raising pheasants. 
It is a most interesting occupation and the little time you will give 
to it will amply repay you in the pleasure you receive. 
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