A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



in all probability will get frozen if the winters 

 should be very severe, so the safest plan with 

 new birds is to cover the front of a shed with 

 two-inch wire netting, just tacking it up 

 lightly, so that it can easily be removed at 

 the end of two or three weeks, when they 

 are accustomed to their new quarters. 



While they are prisoners, feed the trio two or 

 three times a day; about half a pint of mixed 

 wheat and cracked corn night and morning, 

 and at noon about half the quantity of grain, 

 with a little chopped meat or ground bone, 

 alternating with vegetables. All this food 

 should be cut quite small, or the guineas will 

 not eat it. Like other birds, they must have 

 a constant supply of sharp grit and fresh water. 



They are extremely shy, very wild, and 

 suspicious of strange persons and places. 

 Hence the necessity of their long imprison- 

 ment. The old home once forgotten and 

 the new one adopted, this very trait, which 

 seems at first disadvantageous, renders them 

 as valuable guardians of your property as 



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