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to all young poultry, is especially to be avoided in feeding young 

 pheasants. After the young pheasants are weaned, they must 

 be kept in covered runs, or their wings must be clipped to 

 prevent them from flying. 



A large pheasantry is operated on the same general lines as 

 a plant where birds are grown in small numbers. The method is 

 simply an extension of that just described. When only one kind 

 of pheasant is kept, the inclosed yard is sometimes made very 

 large, and a hundred or more birds are put together. This is not 

 good practice with any kind of poultry, and is no doubt respon- 

 sible for much of the trouble which those growing pheasants 

 in large numbers have had. At aviaries where there are large 

 collections of pheasants, including many rare and costly kinds, 

 the yards are always made large enough to give the birds good 

 sanitary conditions, and as a rule each family of adult birds, 

 whether composed of two or more, has a yard to itself. 



