126 PHEASANTS FOR COVERTS AND AVIARIES. 



Give one sort of food at a time (just so much that they eat 

 it clean up), and attendance every hour from the time you 

 commence to feed until shut up for the night. Change the 

 water repeatedly during the day." 



With regard to the coops employed for the hens with 

 young pheasants, a form much recommended is one made 

 like a box, 3ft. long, 2ft. wide, and 2ft. high in front, sloping 

 off to 1ft. high at the back, and having a movable boarded 

 floor that may be employed if the ground be wet. The birds 

 ought to have a further space of about two yards square to 

 run in, fenced in by sparrow-proof wire netting. A good 

 coop of this kind is shown in the cut. The inclosed run, 

 which is proof against rats, sparrows, &c., affords a sufficient 

 space for the exercise of the young birds a day or two 



after hatching, after which the coops should be placed 

 without the wire runs in the spot where the young birds 

 are to be reared, the grass, if high, having been mown 

 around some short time previously, so that the young- 

 shoots and tender clover may be growing for the use of 

 the birds. The advantages of these arrangements have 

 been very ably set forth by Mr. T. C. Cade, of Spondon, 

 Derby. He writes : (t There is a great saving of food, as 

 small birds are excluded by the wire netting ; and it is also 

 practicable to put down a good supply of food at night, so 

 that the young pheasants may be able to feed as soon as they 

 wake, and not be kept waiting, according to the usual plan, 

 for two or three hours during the long summer mornings 

 before they are let out. My birds are never shut in the coop 



