BIGGLE POULTRY BOOK 175 



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Foods, balanced ration. . . 64 food for setting 29 



boiler 53 good laying 57-58 



chick 38-40, 168 hatching 35 



cost of 165-166 "laying type" of 57 



duck no marketing 64 



duckling 114-115 overfat ... 21 



egg-making. .22, 23, 63, 78 setting 28-29- 



farmer's flock 71 two-year-old 21 



for fertility 62-63 Hogan system 160 



for setting hen 29 Homeopathic treatment. . . 148 



gosling 122-123 Hopper feeding 167 



green 1 62 Hospital 147 



on free range 23 House, brooder 52 



pigeon 131 duck 110-113 



turkey 97, 100 for village hennery .. 76-77 



Foxes 156 hen 61, 69-71 



Frosted comb 155 pigeon 127 



wattles 155 



Incubation. .. 15, 27-28, 30-31 



Gapes 150 buying eggs for 50 



Geese 119-121, 138 g ose eggs.. 121, 123-124 



broody . 121 temperature for 30 



egg-record of , r jSS*t 49 



fattening 138 



Incubator: 



feathers of '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 123 location for ........... 30 



incubation of. .121, 123-124 ^Sf^V^'i ........ I5 



]jf e O f .120 taking chicks from... 43-44 



mating .............. 120 Incubators ............. 29 



varieties of ........ 119-120 Indoor flocks ............ 163 



Germs, strong .......... 21-22 



Goslings ............... 121 L 



Sefing Y ".Y.Y.-. I .~, I 2 Laying, best age for ..... 64 



picking ............. 123 contests .............. 170 



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nature of ......... 102-103 J-eg weakness ........... 149 



young ................ 103 Llce ................... I 



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Hatching, eggs late in. . . 36 Mash, dry or wet ........ 167 



temperature .......... 31 Mating breeders ...... 21, 24 



turkeys .............. i oo ducks ................ 113 



Hawks ......... ........ 156 geese ................ 120 



Hen farms .............. 60 guinea fowls .......... 103 



houses ........... 61, 69-71 pigeons .......... 129-130 



Hens, age of laying ...... 64 Maturity, when reached.. 22 



broody ............... 27 Minks ................. 156 



colonizing ....... ..... 60 Molting fowls ........... 157 



