PUTTING OUT THE CHICKENS. 



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food or pepper-corns clown their throats, and dipping their bills in 

 wat.-r to make them drink. It is a mistake to say that if this 

 does no good it can do no harm : the little beaks are very soft 

 and tender, and are often injured by such barbarous treatment. 

 f/iem alone. If they do not eat or drink and chickens 

 seldom drink the first day it only shows they do not wish to ; 

 for to fill an empty stomach is the first and universal instinct 

 of all living things. 



The brood having been fed, the next step will depend upon 





Fi?. 9. Coop under Shed. 



circumstances. If, as we recommend, the chickens were 

 hatched the night before, or be well upon their legs, and the 

 weather be fine, they may be at once moved out, and the hen 

 cooped where her little ones can get the sun. If it be winter, 

 or settled wet weather, the hen must, if possible, be kept on 



