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CHAPTER VII. 



Spring Chickens, Cockrels, and Pullets — Fatting of grown 

 Fowls — Cooping — Modes of fatting in Sussex and Berk- 

 shire — Operation of Cramming — French Mode — Coqs- 

 vierges and Poulets k la Reine — Sucking Chickens — Old 

 Fowls — Pillaw — Observations on Cramming. 



Fowls are fattened by the dealers at all ages, 

 both as young chickens, pullets, and groicn cocks 

 and hens, and very nearly the same methods 

 are in all places employed ; but as there are 

 occasionally some differences in the modes of 

 management, we shall succinctly state what 

 information we have gained from our own ex- 

 perience, as well as from personal communi- 

 cation with other persons, and collected from 

 the various publications on the subject. 



Supposing the brood, on their separation 

 from the hen, to be from eight to ten weeks 

 old, and, as we have stated in a former chap- 

 ter, " to have been well fed and in good con- 

 dition," they will be grown enough to be fat- 

 tened within a short time as spring chickens, 



