FEEDING COOP. 1 ] 1 



dried off. At the end of a couple of weeks 

 more, they may be turned into the poultry- 

 yard. 



Here they will at first hardly receive fair 

 play in the distribution of food. It will 

 therefore be necessary to prepare for them a 

 feeding-coop, in order that they may enjoy 

 food without being disturbed by the older 

 fowls. The feeding-coop consists of a box 

 about four feet square, and two feet high. 

 One side of this is open, with laths or slats of 

 wood just wide enough to admit the chick- 

 ens, and yet so narrow as to exclude the 

 grown fowls. The feed is thrown in through 

 a small trap-door on the top. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Tarious Substances used in fattening Chickens. Confinement. 

 Fattening-coop. No Gravel. Sugar and Molasses. Indian 

 Meal. Animal Food. Fish. Objections to its Use. 



VARIOUS modes of fattening chickens have 

 been practised and recommended. In some 

 parts of England, the food, consisting of 



