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POULTRY BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT 



The Crowing Rooster. Where the method of buying 

 the pullets is followed, the rooster is unnecessary. The 

 hens will lay as well without him, and the objections of the 

 neighbors to chickens on account of the early morning 

 crowing will be overcome. If desired to keep a male, he 

 may be discouraged from crowing by placing a board or 

 hanging canvass over his perch at such a height as to 

 prevent him stretching his neck. A rooster in crowing 



A PLAN FOR BACKYARD POULTRY KEEPING 



raises his head at a considerable height, and if he cannot 

 raise it the desired height there will be little crowing. 



Fancy Poultry-Keeping. Another type of poultry- 

 keeping is that of breeding fancy or show fowls. It is not 

 assumed that fancy or utility are not and cannot be com- 

 bined, but there is a class of poultry-keepers whose chief 

 business or profit is made in the production of fowls that 

 excel in qualities demanded by the Standard of Perfec- 

 tion in the show bird. These breeders have been called 

 fanciers probably because many of the points they breed 

 for and make a profit on are matters of fancy rather 

 than utility. Poultry fanciers have done a good deal in 

 creating an interest in poultry-keeping through the medium 



