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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



[Chap. I. 



if all are good, and throw out the bad ones. To tell which are good, hold 

 an egg up to a hole or crevice of a dark room, and look at it, and if all below 

 tlie vacuum in tlie butt is dark-colored opaque, it is in a fair way to hatcli. 

 If it is light-colored and yellowish, so that the sunlight can be seen through 

 if, you may throw it out at once ; and if all are so, you can dismis^the old 

 hen with your thanks for her good intentions. 



"Double eggs" rarely hatch, and when they do, are just as likely to pro- 

 duce two distinct cliickons as a Siamese one. 



Nests should be made shallow. If boxes are used, not over live iuclies 

 deep. 



1S5. Periods of Incubation. — A common fowl hen sits 20 days ; a Guinea 

 fowl lien, 2.")i days ; a duck, 20 days ; a turkey hen, 27 days ; a goose, 29 

 days ; a musk duck, 32 or 33 days ; a pea-ben, 27 to 29 da3's. 



To hatch healthy chicks in these periods, the birds must have good warm 

 nests in a sheltered situation. Chickens have been hatclied in nineteen 

 days, and the period has been prolonged to twenty-seven days. 



ISO. Woiglilsof Various Breeds of Fowls and other Poultry: 



Lbs. Oz 



Black Polish cock, three years old -5 S 



" hen, " " " 3 4 



" pullet 2 (i 



Golden Polish cock 5 C 



• • hen 3 8 



Another hen 3 



Golden Polish pullet 2 



Malay hen 3 



Creole (Silver H.'hnbiirgh) hen 3 



Black Nondescript hen 4 



Globe-crested Polish hen 3 



Silver Polish hen 3 



Game-cock 4 



" hen 3 



Youns Blue Dun cock 3 



lilue Dun hen 3 



Large Dun Hybrid hen 3 



Pheasant-Malay cocks, two years old, 



average each 7 



" cockerel, five months old 7 



' ' hen 5 



'■ pullet, seventeen months old 5 



" (crossed with Dorking hen), four 



years old 5 



Speckled Surrey hen, two years old 5 



Spanisli hen 5 



Two Dorking cocks, each 7 



" hens 6 



" " 6 



Cock turkey, two years and a half old. . 17 



Hen " one year and a half old 10 



" 9 



Turkey cock, sixteen months old IG 



" hen, three or four years old ... . 8 



Lbs. Oi. 



3 I Musk drake (molting) 9 



4 I Whiter China gander, six years old 12 



G White China goose 11 



Common China goose, Cynoides, six 



8 I years old 10 



10 I Cocliin-Ciiina cock, aboutsixteen months 



8 ] old, molting ". G 



12 ; Cochin-China hen, " " "..4 



Malay cock, about sixteen montlis old . G 



" hen, " " " " . . 4 



Phca.saut-Malay cock 5 



" " hen, molting 3 



Game-cockerel, about five months old . 4 

 Golden Hamburgh cockerel, just arrived 

 from a long journey, about five 



months old ~. 3 



" pullet, " " " 2 

 Cochin-ChirKi cockerel, sue months old. 4 

 Another, " " " . 4 

 Silver Hamburgh cockerel, after travel- 

 ing, about five months old 3 



" pullet, " " " " 2 



Black Polish hen, molting 3 



Golden Hamburgh, " 2 



Andalusian cockerel, four months old . 3 



pullet, " " " .. 2 



Black Spanish cockerel " " .. 2 



" pullet, " " " . . 2 



Silver Polish cockerel, four months and 



a half old 2 



Golden Poland pullet, about five months 



old 2 8 



White-crested Golden Poland pullet, " 2 3 



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 13 



10 



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187. Capons and Poulardes. — These are terras applied to emasculated cocks 

 and pidlets. Every person who makes a business of poultry raising to 

 supply accity market, should learn the art of making capons and poidardes, 

 because they will always sell for nearly twice as much as other fowls. 



