42 PRACTICAL PHEASANT REARING. 



her ordinary position for their use. A certain 

 number of your coops should have wooden shutters 

 to fit in over the bars in front, with these air holes 

 bored as described, for the purpose of inclosing and 

 moving the hen and her brood ; and these " trans- 

 porting " coops should also have wooden bottoms 

 fitted to them, which can be put underneath the coop 

 during the afternoon of the day on which you intend 

 the " family " to emigrate. Then in the evening,, 

 when the little ones are safely cuddled up on the 

 board under the maternal wing, the front shutter, 

 which should slide down between two grooves on 

 each side, can be quietly slid in, the whole tenement 

 with its occupants put into a cart, and transported 

 whithersoever you will, mother and family waking up 

 the next morning in other fields and pastures new 

 without being one whit incommoded by the process. 

 It is not of course, necessary to have more than a 

 certain number of these extra-boarded coops, as, once 

 the hen is fixed where she has to remain, a common 

 coop can be slipped over her head, and the carrying 

 coops used again the next night if wanted. 



The following remarks are from the pen of Mr 

 Home, of Hereford, a great breeder of fancy 

 pheasants, and, though he rears his pheasants only in 

 a garden, and of course not in very large quantities, 

 still many of his hints are useful, and I should recom- 

 mend breeders to send for his little book printed 

 and published by Jakeman and Carver, Hereford as 



