CHAPTER VI 
AUTUMN MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING 
In this chapter the well-known judge, M. Jacquemin, 
details the necessary procedure from the end of the 
breeding season up to the time when the birds should 
be able to hold their own in the Singing 
Competitions. 
HEN the breeding season is at its final stage, 
\/ we must see to the most important part of 
our hobby—the training of the young cocks. 
I do not believe in putting young cocks too early in 
single cages ; as long as they sing quietly I leave them 
in the flight cages, 15 cocks in a flight 7 feet long and 
2 feet deep and 2 feet high, and feed them on canary 
and rape seed, with every day some crushed hemp seed, 
mixed seed and green food. 
About the middle of August I put some of them in 
single cages, and give them as their regular food canary 
and rape mixed, egg food once a week, and one day 
mixed seed consisting of hemp, linseed, groats, millet, 
inga and maw seed, also now and then a little chickweed 
or lettuce. 
The cages I leave open, so that the birds can see each 
other for at least a week, as I find that they settle down 
better than if they are darkened down at once. It is a 
great mistake to shut them up at once, you must let 
them find the way to their seed and water ; the mixed 
seed may be placed on the sand tray. 
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