42 PROPAGATION OF WILD BIRDS 



3. Same or ants' eggs. 



4. Egg or custard, etc. 



Always keep before them fine grit and charcoal mixed. 

 Water should be in fonts which cannot be fouled, and kept 

 in the shade. Otherwise give it only at meal times. 



Second Week. Four meals a day: 



1. Egg or custard, pheasant meal or canary seed or chick- 

 grain added. 



2. Same, or ants' eggs or insects, or these added to mash 

 if not enough. Occasionally curd, in which case give the 

 insects after it, or at another meal. 



3. Same as first meal. 



4. Same as first meal, a little boiled rice added every day 

 or second day. 



Third to Sixth Week, inclusive. Three meals: 



1 . Mash as above, reducing egg, increasing pheasant meal, 

 adding ants' eggs or insects as convenient. 



2. Chick-grain or grain and seed mixtures. 



3. Same as first meal, rice every two days. 



Seventh Week to Two Months. Three meals, or two if 

 insects are plenty and birds do not act as if hungry: 



1. Chick-grain or small grain and seeds. 



2. Same, light feed. 



3. Pheasant-meal mash, with crissel. 

 After Two Months. Same as adults. 



Handling of Young. The discussion of feeding has taken us 

 in advance of the order of our subject, to which let us return. 



Move Coop. Each day, or certainly every other day, the 

 coop and run should be moved to a fresh spot of turf adjoin- 

 ing, to avoid fouHng of the ground. Move either coop or 

 run while the hen and young are in the other part. Transfer 

 the hen first, and then the chicks. Make sure that there is 

 no hole through which the tiny things can escape. 



