22 Aviary Pheasants. 



Singh's game farm at Elvedon, wire runs with sitting- 

 boxes at the sides are used ; the hens are turned off 

 the nests, and put into wire runs, very similar to those 

 described under " Coops," in Chapter II. 



Whichever way you adopt, you first make a nest 

 by placing a turf, grass downwards, and hollow in the 

 centre, in the middle of the box. See that it is nice 

 and hollow with no hard knobs or stones place in it 

 two or three sham eggs, and put the hen on them the 

 last thing at night. Take her off next morning, at 

 the hour at which you intend for the future to feed 

 her. When she has taken food and water, restore 

 her to her nest, and, if she settles down well, you 

 may, in the course of the day, put the eggs under her. 

 Enter the particulars in the " Sitting-hen Record,"* 

 and affix the second half of the label to her coop. If 

 you have used a sitting-box without a run or inclosure, 

 you can put a tether with a slip-knot round the hen's 

 leg. Take a slip of leather a few inches long, cut 

 a slit at one end, and put the other end through it ; 

 to this fasten a string, and, with a good length of it, 

 fix her to a peg. Pass her leg through the leather 

 loop, and she will be quite secure. The keepers 

 usually peg the sitting hens on a piece of turf at 

 equal distances from each other, forming a square, 

 and pans of water and food are placed within reach 

 a plan I do not much like. 



You might put the hen in an empty coop, with 



* Published by L. Upcott Gill, 170, Strand, London. Price, 50 

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