Typical pheasant rearing field showing arrangement of coops in rows facing on "rides." 



access to the board run the day following their placing in the rearing field 

 and some breeders permit this from the first if the weather be warm. 



REARING COOPS 40 YARDS APART.— The first hatch located, 

 disinfect thoroughly by spraying the coop from which it was taken and 

 place this at least 40 yards from the coop first located in the rearing field, 

 repeating the routine described in detail above, till the last chicks are re- 

 moved and located in their new home. On large farms it is sometimes 

 necessary to put coops only 25 yards apart, but this should be avoided if 

 possible. Always hold chicks loosely; squeezing is likely to injure them 

 seriously. Bear in mind in taking off the hatch that the sooner mother 

 and chicks are reunited the better. 



AS TO "RIDES." — In large operations the rearing coops are jjlaced 

 in rows, and swaths or "rides," as the British game keepers call them, are 

 cut through the grass directly in front of them, forming a succession of 

 streets, as it were. These are shown in the illustration on this page, taken 

 from a photograph of a rearing field at the Clove Valley Rod and Gun 

 Club in Dutchess County, New York. The ride has its good and bad 

 points. It makes the birds somewhat easier prey for vermin in the opinion 

 of some but, on the other hand, it is claimed by its advocates that it less- 

 ens the wetting the chicks get from early morning dew and kee})s the hen 

 ?rom trampling her chicks. It certainly does make feeding drier work 

 for the man in charge of the field. 



Where breeding is done on a large scale, it is customary to allot from 



