184 Farm Poultry 



England. The Heathfield district in Sussex 

 county, England, is noted for the large quan- 

 tities of poultry that are fattened for the London 

 markets by this process. Young birds four or five 

 months old are placed in coops, which are raised 

 about three feet from the ground. These coops 

 have slat sides and bottoms and are protected 



Fig. 57. An English method of arranging coops, where 

 cramming is practiced. 



from the weather by a roof. Each coop is large 

 enough to hold comfortably four or five birds. 

 See Fig. 57. For the first ten days after placing 

 the fowls in the coops, they are fed twice a day 

 soft food from little troughs suspended within 

 easy reach. After they have eaten all they will, 

 the troughs are removed and no food is offered 

 until the next meal. The food consists largely of 

 ground oats, with the hulls removed, and ground 





