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OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS 



Growing chickens. Where old fowls have to be kept in close 

 confinement, very little can be done in growing chickens. Some 

 amateur poultry keepers raise in small, bare yards birds that are 

 as good as the average chickens grown under more favorable 

 conditions, but where one succeeds in doing this a hundred 

 fail. Most of the chickens grown in close quarters are very 



FIG. 80. White Wyandotte hen and chicks 



poor indeed in comparison with farm-grown chickens, and 

 quite unfit to be kept for laying or breeding purposes. Those 

 who succeed in growing good chickens in a small place usually 

 give a great deal more time to the work than the chickens pro- 

 duced are worth. The best way for a poultry keeper so situated 

 to get as much as possible of the pleasure of this interesting 

 line of work is to hatch a few broods and, when the chicks are 

 large enough, broil, eat, or sell all but a few of the best pullets 



